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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
Numbness Phillip Lopate 2009
Paradise Lost, Book VI, Lines 801–866 John Milton 1667
The First Night Billy Collins 2008
Macbeth, Act I, Scene II [The merciless Macdonwald] William Shakespeare 1623
I Love You Sara Teasdale 1911
One-Word Poem David R. Slavitt 2006
Epithalamium Matthew Rohrer 2001
I’m a Fool to Love You Cornelius Eady 1997
One of the Lives W. S. Merwin 1996
Yellow Beak Stephen Dobyns 2005
Audience Mei-mei Berssenbrugge 2003
Break of Day John Donne 1612
Not marble nor the gilded monuments (Sonnet 55) William Shakespeare 1609
II [Doom is dark and deeper than any sea-dingle.] W. H. Auden 1930
Little Things Marion Strobel 1921
Abecedarian on the Good Father Keith Leonard 2024
Noon Harindranath Chattopadhyaya 1918
Amsterdam Safia Elhillo 2023
Refuge Jackie Wang 2021
American Sonnet (95) Wanda Coleman 2001

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