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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
Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock Wallace Stevens 1915
Prayers of Steel Carl Sandburg 1918
Night Funeral in Harlem Langston Hughes 1994
My Father on His Shield Walt McDonald 1998
[It was summer when I found you] Sappho 1907
The Task Edward Hirsch 2018
This Has Always Been Our Active Shooter Drill Jason Reynolds 2018
Christmas Eve Ella Higginson 2017
Hallowmas Madison Julius Cawein 2017
gathering words María Luisa Arroyo Cruzado 2016
Pastoral William Carlos Williams 2016
The Sirens James Russell Lowell 1840
Ecce Puer James Joyce 1936
In That Other Fantasy Where We Live Forever Wanda Coleman 2001
Folk Song Diane Seuss 2023
The Hour and the Ghost Christina Rossetti 2018
What the Angels Left Marie Howe 1988
The Secret of Light James Wright 1990
The Cows at Night Hayden Carruth 2006
Curriculum Vitae Lisel Mueller 1996

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