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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
Compulsively Allergic to the Truth Jeffrey McDaniel 2008
Surreptitious Kissing Denis Johnson 1994
Thanksgiving Letter from Harry Carl Dennis 2007
Eating the Bones Ellen Bass 2007
The Blue Terrance Terrance Hayes 2006
From the Long Sad Party Mark Strand 1973
History Robert Lowell 1976
Age and Death Emma Lazarus 1888
If the Owl Calls Again John Haines 1993
Couple Sharing a Peach Molly Peacock 2002
A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M. Amy Lowell 1914
Souvenir of the Ancient World Carlos Drummond de Andrade 2002
To Althea, from Prison Richard Lovelace 1649
The Taxi Amy Lowell 1914
The Lost Pilot James Tate 1967
[Someone running with his head aflame …] Daniel Lipara 2026
Prophecy Robert Penn Warren 1922
Post Partum Nikita Deshpande 2026
II [Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.] W. H. Auden 1930
Self-Portrait 1 Tove Ditlevsen 2025

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