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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
Hearing your words and not a word among them (Sonnet XXXVI) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
The Balloon of the Mind W. B. Yeats 1919
Winter: My Secret Christina Rossetti 1862
In the Garden Thomas Hardy 1915
The Plain Sense of Things Wallace Stevens 2011
Canterbury Tales, General Prologue Geoffrey Chaucer 1478
The Man with the Hoe Edwin Markham 1898
Syntax Reginald Shepherd 2003
I Married You Linda Pastan 2006
Adlestrop Edward Thomas 1917
R.I.P., My Love Tory Dent 1999
The Song in the Dream Saskia Hamilton 2001
alphabet [excerpt] Inger Christensen 2000
Jasmine Yusef Komunyakaa 2001
[Like the very gods] Sappho 1949
Poem Beginning in Berlin, Ending in Boston, and Bookended by Rilke Tiana Clark 2026
Portrait of a Capgras Raffi Joe Wartanian 2026
“Pass Me the Kleenex” John Berryman 2025
Tough Zinnias Alice Fulton 2025
Alignment Jewel Rodgers 2025

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