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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
Taking Down the Tree Jane Kenyon 2005
Autumn Amy Lowell 1919
Hallow-E'en, 1914 Winifred M. Letts 1916
Summer Song William Carlos Williams 1917
The Retreat Henry Vaughan 1650
Sonnet 1 Gwendolyn Bennett 1927
Inspiration Henry David Thoreau 1895
1990 special Charles Bukowski 2007
The Buried Life Matthew Arnold 1852
The Gift Sara Teasdale 1907
A Shropshire Lad, XIII A. E. Housman 1896
To the Moon [fragment] Percy Bysshe Shelley 1824
Sun Michael Palmer 1988
Mennonites Julia Spicher Kasdorf 1992
The Slave Mother Frances Ellen Watkins Harper 1854
From you have I been absent in the spring (Sonnet 98) William Shakespeare 1609
Erasers Meghan O’Rourke 2026
How to Take a Life Janel Pineda 2026
From “Puella Mea” [Through the young and awkward hours] E. E. Cummings 1923
As if some little Arctic flower Emily Dickinson 1890

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