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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
South Jack Gilbert 2010
Health Rafael Campo 2010
How the Pope Is Chosen (audio only) James Tate 1996
Sonnet 7 [The soote season, that bud and bloom forth brings] Henry Howard 1557
Sonnet 8 [Set me where as the sun doth parch the green] Henry Howard 1557
Nearly a Valediction Marilyn Hacker 1994
Come Slowly—Eden (211) Emily Dickinson 1890
Man and Camel Mark Strand 2006
A Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters (audio only) June Jordan 1992
The Legend Garrett Hongo 1988
Letters from a Father Mona Van Duyn 1982
Song of the Son Jean Toomer 1923
In the Park Maxine Kumin 1989
homage to my hips (audio only) Lucille Clifton 1983
The Forest Susan Stewart 1995
To the Oracle at Delphi Lawrence Ferlinghetti 2001
Twilight: After Haying Jane Kenyon 1996
I Might Have Dreamed This Kirsten Dierking 2001
Nocturnal (Many a Night Burned to Dawn) Ahmad Shamlou 2025
Lessons at the Legendary Institute for Yarn Spinning Rigoberto González 2026

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