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Search our extensive curated collection of more than ten thousand poems by occasion (Autumn to Easter, Veterans Day to Valentine’s Day, etc.), theme (love, nature, sports, etc.), and form (sonnets, haiku, etc.), or search by keyword or poet’s name in the field below.

Title Author Year
A Way of Seeing Kwame Dawes 2017
Lines Breaking José B. González 2017
A Brief History of Hostility Jamaal May 2017
I Hear You Call, Pine Tree Yone Noguchi 2016
American Pharoah Ada Limón 2016
Self-Portrait with Sylvia Plath’s Braid Diane Seuss 2015
A fourteen-line poem on Adoration Julie Carr 2014
Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652 John Milton 1667
A New Law Greg Delanty 2010
SPAM's carbon footprint Craig Santos Perez 2010
Days Ralph Waldo Emerson 1912
Postcard to I. Kaminsky from a Dream at the Edge of the Sea Cecilia Woloch 2010
Song of the Deathless Voice Abram Joseph Ryan 1880
How to Read a Poem: Beginner's Manual Pamela Spiro Wagner 2009
The City’s Love Claude McKay 1922
The Aeneid, Book IV [So, you traitor] Virgil 2006
Providence Natasha Trethewey 2006
Tubes Donald Hall 2006
When We Look Up Denise Levertov 1966
To the Moon [fragment] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824

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