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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
Alfonzo Prepares to Go Over the Top Rita Dove 2017
Doctrine Sam Sax 2017
Elegy with Apples, Pomegranates, Bees, Butterflies, Thorn Bushes, Oak, Pine, Warblers, Crows, Ants, and Worms Hayan Charara 2015
On Virtue Phillis Wheatley 1773
A fourteen-line poem on Adoration Julie Carr 2014
At Night Yone Noguchi 1920
To My Best Friend's Big Sister Ross Gay 2013
jasper texas 1998 Lucille Clifton 1991
Hey You Adrian Blevins 2010
Hymn to God, My God, in My Sickness John Donne 1623
The Supple Deer Jane Hirshfield 2011
The Buried Life Matthew Arnold 1852
Day of the Refugios Alberto Ríos 1994
Why should a foolish marriage vow John Dryden 1913
Red Pens Tony Towle 2004
How Can It Be I Am No Longer I Lucie Brock-Broido 1997
In Memoriam Mae Noblitt A. R. Ammons 1981
And Leave Show Business? Ralph Burns 1994
The Ball and Chain J. P. Grasser 2022
The language of the house Manuel Iris 2025

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