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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
My Letters! all dead paper... (Sonnet 28) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850
The City Limits A. R. Ammons 1986
Still A. R. Ammons 1986
Palea Tory Dent 1999
The Mountain Cemetery Edgar Bowers 1997
John Edgar Bowers 1997
The Fall of Rome W. H. Auden 1940
Epitaph on a Tyrant W. H. Auden 1940
In Memory of Sigmund Freud W. H. Auden 1940
To the Dead (audio only) Frank Bidart 1992
The Nursing Home E. M. Schorb 2000
Part Phillis Levin 2001
Repairwork Dennis Hinrichsen 2000
The Telephonist Susan Yuzna 2000
Nothing Ventured Kay Ryan 2000
Work Emma Lazarus 1871
Be Drunk Charles Baudelaire 1997
The Idea of Ancestry Etheridge Knight 1986
Hard Rock Returns to Prison from the Hospital for the Criminal Insane Etheridge Knight 1986
Blue May Swenson 1994

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