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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
Whose Story of Us We Is Told Is Us Shane McCrae 2011
At the Carnival Anne Spencer 1922
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [I listen to songs] Tada Chimako 2010
Birch Cynthia Zarin 2011
Tanka Diary [Don't need picket fences, brick wall] Harryette Mullen 2010
Dead Horse Thomas Lux 2010
The Task, Book II, A Time-Piece [excerpt] William Cowper 1785
The Book of the Dead Man (Nothing) Marvin Bell 2009
Tender Buttons [Chicken] Gertrude Stein 1914
World Below the Brine Walt Whitman 1891
The Maldive Shark Herman Melville 1888
Ode to Spring Frederick Seidel 2009
Not Merely Because of the Unknown That Was Stalking Toward Them [But the rocking chair] Jenny Boully 2008
The Celestial Surgeon Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
The Widening Sky Edward Hirsch 2003
Thanksgiving Letter from Harry Carl Dennis 2007
The Painted Bed Donald Hall 2006
My Friends W. S. Merwin 1963
War Music [Down on your knees, Achilles] Christopher Logue 1988
Talking to Patrizia Kenneth Koch 1994

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