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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
Queen-Anne's-Lace William Carlos Williams 1921
Adjectives of Order Alexandra Teague 2010
Summer at Blue Creek, North Carolina Jack Gilbert 2009
Lay Back the Darkness Edward Hirsch 2003
A Noun Sentence Mahmoud Darwish 2007
Mother Night James Weldon Johnson 1922
Untitled [To see this evil from its core] Philip Lamantia 2008
Her Body Like a Lantern Next to Me John Rybicki 2008
The Celestial Surgeon Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
Lovers' Infiniteness John Donne 1633
At Night the States Alice Notley 2006
Quatrains Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Day Job and Night Job Andrew Hudgins 2003
Surreptitious Kissing Denis Johnson 1994
The Illiterate William Meredith 1997
Third Charm from Masque of Queens Ben Jonson 1609
Achill Derek Mahon 1991
The Beef Epitaph Michael Benedikt 1976
My Friends W. S. Merwin 1963
Nothing Stays Put Amy Clampitt 1997

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