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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
The National Interest Ted Mathys 2009
Nearing Dawn Jorie Graham 2008
The Sick Child Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
Grief Calls Us to the Things of This World Sherman Alexie 2009
Eighth Sky Michael Palmer 1995
Three Songs William Shakespeare 1600
Achill Derek Mahon 1991
The Beef Epitaph Michael Benedikt 1976
Epilogue Robert Lowell 1975
Wrap Aimee Nezhukumatathil 2003
Short-Order Cook Jim Daniels 1985
Sparrow, the Special Delight of My Girl Gaius Valerius Catullus 2002
Song of Myself John Canaday 2002
Baby Tortoise D. H. Lawrence 1964
One A.M. [excerpt] David Young 1994
From “Mass for the Day of St. Thomas Didymus” Denise Levertov 2000
Rent Jane Cooper 1993
The Young Fools (Les Ingenus) Paul Verlaine 1997
Elegy and welcome for my father, whose funeral I could not attend Manuel Iris 2025
Poem in Which the Poet Ventriloquizes the Beloved Kimberly Quiogue Andrews 2026

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