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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
This Day Jimmy Santiago Baca 2007
Mother Herman de Coninck 2006
The Mahogany Tree William Makepeace Thackeray 1882
In Vain Jack Kerouac 2006
Letters from a Father Mona Van Duyn 1982
Porch Swing in September Ted Kooser 2005
The Ghost Has No Home Jeff Clark 1997
Baby Tortoise D. H. Lawrence 1964
The Suitor Jane Kenyon 1996
Hugh Selwyn Mauberly [excerpt] Ezra Pound 1956
Song of the Cluster Bomblet Soul Vang 2017
Bound Aline Murray Kilmer 2014
Salt Song Arthur Sze 2021
What the Strength Card in the Tarot Deck Said Alison Luterman 2026
Once Tove Ditlevsen 2025
Nostalgia Jessie Redmon Fauset 1927
The City William Rose Benét 1920
Third Grade Georgia A. Popoff 2024
The Pet Leonora Speyer 1921
When The World Falls in Around You or, Vows to My Palestinian Wife on Our Wedding Day Lehua M. Taitano 2024

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