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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
Elegy 5 Ovid 1870
Just Before Jorie Graham 2008
The Heron Linda Hogan 2008
Return John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester 1714
Don Juan [If from great nature's or our own abyss] Lord George Gordon Byron 1819
Black Jackets Thom Gunn 1994
Eating the Bones Ellen Bass 2007
The Buried Life Matthew Arnold 1852
Exquisite Politics Denise Duhamel 1997
Second Fig Edna St. Vincent Millay 1956
The Dancing Gerald Stern 1982
A Way to Love God Robert Penn Warren 1985
Losing Track Denise Levertov 1964
Duende Tracy K. Smith 2004
Styx Dana Levin 2011
Once in the 40’s William Stafford 1982
Shafro Terrance Hayes 1999
Tract William Carlos Williams 1962
By ways remote and distant waters sped (101) Gaius Valerius Catullus 1896
Now Winter Nights Enlarge Thomas Campion 1617

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