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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
On the Road to the Sea Charlotte Mew 1914
Spent Mark Doty 2013
Lines to a Nasturtium Anne Spencer 1926
Night Baseball Michael Blumenthal 1984
Prayer for the Man Who Mugged My Father, 72 Charles Harper Webb 2010
Descriptions of Heaven and Hell Mark Jarman 1981
Curriculum Vitae Lisel Mueller 1996
In Memoriam, [To Sleep I give my powers away] Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1850
In a Country Larry Levis 1977
I See Chile in My Rearview Mirror Agha Shahid Ali 1991
The Dawning of the Age Tracie Morris 2026
[I keep his name] Ulayya bint al-Mahdi 2026
a graphic Ed Roberson 2026
Poem in Which My Mother Snapped Denise Duhamel 2025
Beatitude John Keene 2021
For the Candlelight Angelina Weld Grimké 1927
The Battle-Field William Cullen Bryant 1878
How Becoming a Mother is Like Space Travel Catherine Pierce 2020
A Summer's Night Paul Laurence Dunbar 1913
They Part Dorothy Parker 1926

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