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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
Rose Song Anne Reeve Aldrich 1889
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots, Dec’d. Mark Twain 1885
[’Tis the first snow—] Matsuo Bashō 1899
Sink Your Fingers into the Darkness of my Fur Ellen Bass 2020
River Rodney Gomez 2018
No Longer Ode Urayoán Noel 2018
Looking at My Father Wendy Xu 2017
Frederick Douglass Robert Hayden 2017
My Life Was the Size of My Life Jane Hirshfield 2015
Reading to My Father Jorie Graham 2016
real poem (personal statement) Rachel Zucker 2014
The Backyard Mermaid Matthea Harvey 2011
On the Beach at Night Alone Walt Whitman 1891
Dream-Land Edgar Allan Poe 1844
Ground Swell Mark Jarman 1997
In That Other Fantasy Where We Live Forever Wanda Coleman 2001
disagreement María Auxiliadora Álvarez 2025
Sonnet LIX: Love’s Last Gift Dante Gabriel Rossetti 1869
1943 Nicholas Christopher 2025
The Sea / Is Sacred Still Andrew Calis 2025

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