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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
playing with fire Evie Shockley 2011
Ghost in the Land of Skeletons Christopher Kennedy 2011
The Dandelion Vachel Lindsay 1916
On Shakespeare John Milton 1630
Epithalamium, [Happy Bridegroom] Sappho 1922
Iva's Pantoum Marilyn Hacker 1969
Snow-Flakes Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1863
[Like the very gods] Sappho 1949
Trying to Write a Dog Poem in a House with Two Cats Billy Collins 2025
They Keep Killing You, and It’s Always Yesterday Ann-Margaret Lim 2025
Longings Nellie Rathbone Bright 1927
Hoops with Nets Mark Halliday 2025
Ghazal of Oranges Jan-Henry Gray 2022
To a Young Dancing Girl Elsa Gidlow 1923
Ode on an Abandoned House Hayan Charara 2021
Militants to Certain Other Women Katharine Rolston Fisher 1918
Why We Oppose Votes for Men Alice Duer Miller 1915
Letter to My Great, Great Grandchild J. P. Grasser 2020
From “Nox” [Autopsy is a term historians use ...] Anne Carson 2010
Beat! Beat! Drums! Walt Whitman

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