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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
Desolation of the Chimera Luis Cernuda 2010
Five Easy Prayers for Pagans Philip Appleman 1998
Caesarion C. P. Cavafy 2008
The Book of the Dead Man (Nothing) Marvin Bell 2009
Babylon Robert Graves 1918
Hospital: strange lights Jean Valentine 2008
Couture Mark Doty 1995
Thanksgiving Letter from Harry Carl Dennis 2007
Bedside William Olsen 2007
The Reservation Adrian C. Louis 2007
Joseph Cornell, with Box Michael Dumanis 2007
Poem at Thirty Michael Ryan 2004
A Crosstown Breeze Henry Taylor 2006
My Great Great Etc. Uncle Patrick Henry James Tate 1972
The Dancing Gerald Stern 1982
What Will You Be? Dennis Lee 1977
Ponies Spencer Reece 2004
Then Spencer Reece 2004
Real Life Lucie Brock-Broido 1988
The Orchid Flower Sam Hamill 2002

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