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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
Replica of The Thinker Matthew Olzmann 2016
Grief Elizabeth Barrett Browning 2016
Prayer of the Backhanded Jericho Brown 2016
To a Friend who sent me some Roses John Keats 1817
The Castaway William Cowper 1799
The Habit of Perfection Gerard Manley Hopkins 1916
Unfortunate Coincidence Dorothy Parker 1926
Calling on All Silent Minorities June Jordan 2017
To My Oldest Friend, Whose Silence Is Like a Death Lloyd Schwartz 2014
From “Elegy in Joy” Muriel Rukeyser 2011
Midwinter Day [Excerpt] Bernadette Mayer 1982
[The child who speaks despite the rule] Dan Sociu 2026
Poetry Diane Seuss 2022
Fireworks Edith Sitwell 1918
Velvet Shoes Elinor Wylie 2021
Revolutionary Letter #3 Diane di Prima 1971
On Freedom Kahlil Gibran 1923
Gitanjali 35 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
C.R.E.A.M. Danez Smith 2017
Song T. S. Eliot 2016

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