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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
The Drunken Fisherman Robert Lowell 1976
The Old Lizard Federico García Lorca 2005
Scrambled Eggs and Whiskey Hayden Carruth 1996
Kentucky River Junction Wendell Berry 1985
Water Picture May Swenson 1994
The Voice of Robert Desnos Robert Desnos 1991
The Visitation Brigit Pegeen Kelly 1988
Ode to a Dressmaker’s Dummy Donald Justice 1991
Salt Song Arthur Sze 2021
Alliterative Autobiography [Classroom] Adam Giannelli 2026
A Violet Darkness Najwan Darwish 2024
Clarity Vievee Francis 2024
The Palace-Burner Sarah Morgan Bryan Piatt 1874
Blood Sex Crystal Valentine 2023
Gitanjali 19 Rabindranath Tagore 1913
Gitanjali 5 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
Nativity Gladys May Casely Hayford 1927
Love Poem Attempt 3/? Taylor Byas 2023
Othering Ana Castillo 2021
Don’t You Wanna Patricia Smith 2020

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