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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
the bullet was a girl Danez Smith 2015
Tang Bruce Cohen 2013
Spent Mark Doty 2013
Old Ironsides Oliver Wendell Holmes 1830
Mexico City Blues [182nd Chorus] Jack Kerouac 1959
Frost at Midnight Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1798
Harlem Shadows Claude McKay 1921
The Yellow Bittern (An Bunnan Bui) Cathal Bui Mac Giolla Gunna 1913
Teaching the Ape to Write Poems James Tate 1991
In Memoriam, Epilogue, [O true and tried, so well and long] Alfred, Lord Tennyson 1850
Four Poems for Robin Gary Snyder 1968
Song of Myself, 10 Walt Whitman 1891
Go, lovely rose! Edmund Waller 1645
[I finish The Lover and we take a walk.] Nicole Tallman 2025
𓆭 [Tree] Jesse Arlen 2026
Richard’s Not Such a Die-Hard Christian After All Michelle Bitting 2026
Audience Derrick Austin 2026
Background, or, How to Look at a Mountain Gabeba Baderoon 2026
All-American Ghazal Dujie Tahat 2025
Espergesia César Vallejo 1918

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