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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 Glory of the Day Was in Her Face James Weldon Johnson 2017
His Speed and Strength Alicia Ostriker 2016
Incendiary Art Patricia Smith 2016
From “Life in a Box is a Pretty Life” Dawn Lundy Martin 2015
A Winter Blue Jay Sara Teasdale 2014
Another Poem for Mothers Erin Belieu 2014
Friend, Jean Valentine 2013
Thoughts Walt Whitman 1867
From “Debths” Susan Howe 2013
Arabic Naomi Shihab Nye 1994
Hearing your words and not a word among them (Sonnet XXXVI) Edna St. Vincent Millay 1931
I like to see it lap the Miles (43) Emily Dickinson 1890
Summer Past John Gray 1893
Death Barged In Kathleen Sheeder Bonanno 2009
XXIX [Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind] William Wordsworth 1815
Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World Jane Hirshfield 1997
Epithalamion Edmund Spenser 1595
Father’s Day James Tate 2008
Surreptitious Kissing Denis Johnson 1994
Ghost Paul Mariani 1996

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