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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
Metaphors of a Magnifico Wallace Stevens 1954
The Emperor Pats His Lips with a Napkin Sanam Sheriff 2026
Reunion Tour Jericho Brown 2025
Mountain Storm Younghill Kang 1929
Gitanjali 6 Rabindranath Tagore 1916
On Moving Jane Huffman 2023
Love Sleep Elsa Gidlow 1923
That is solemn we have ended,— (87) Emily Dickinson 2020
The Gray Heron Galway Kinnell 2018
Wade in the Water Tracy K. Smith 2018
it won’t be a bullet Danez Smith 2017
God’s World Edna St. Vincent Millay 2017
Any Common Desolation Ellen Bass 2016
Art Project: Earth Karen Skolfield 2016
[we fight back to control the outside] kari edwards 2016
Variation on a Theme W. S. Merwin 2013
A Wedding Toast (audio only) Richard Wilbur 2003
Woods in Winter Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 2025
“John Brown’s Body” [There were three stout pillars that held up all] Stephen Vincent Benét 1927
On Shakespeare John Milton 1630

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