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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
Afton Water Robert Burns 1791
About Face Alice Fulton 1995
Shadows in the Water Thomas Traherne 1910
[When we walked along the garden path] Hafsa bint al-Hajj Arrakuniyya 1991
For Asopichos of Orchomenos, Winner in the Boys’ Short Foot-Race Pindar 2026
Elegy and welcome for my father, whose funeral I could not attend Manuel Iris 2025
line Ed Roberson 2026
Sunrise Manuel Iris 2026
The House on Stilt Legs Sholeh Wolpé 2013
In Defense of My Mother Who Never Bought Me a Barbie Dreamhouse Caridad Moro-Gronlier 2022
Selling Babies in Shelby County Salaam Green 2025
Note on Method Jeffrey Pethybridge 2025
The Possessed John Berryman 1948
The Dream Startled Awake Han Yong-un 1926
Le Temps Mort Jenny Xie 2025
Last Sky World Burn Fargo Nissim Tbakhi 2025
Fairies and Brownies Gertrude P. McBrown 1927
I was built by inherited hungers. This is not a poem that names them. Kimberly Blaeser 2024
Last Song of the Exile Miguel Teurbe Tolón 1900
Flying Patricia Jabbeh Wesley 2024

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