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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
Poetry Claude McKay 1922
Identity Poem (#99) Marilyn Chin 2003
Bury Sam Sax 2017
Old South Meeting House January Gill O’Neil 2016
Native Memory Ansel Elkins 2016
Time Passes Joy Ladin 2015
A Winter Blue Jay Sara Teasdale 2014
A fourteen-line poem on Adoration Julie Carr 2014
Old Folks' Jokes Ravi Shankar 2014
The Balloon of the Mind W. B. Yeats 1919
The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems Yusef Komunyakaa 2011
I like to see it lap the Miles (43) Emily Dickinson 1890
Testy Pony Zachary Schomburg 2010
Text Messages Jordan Davis 2010
The Wind Blows Through the Doors of My Heart Deborah Digges 2010
How the Pope Is Chosen (audio only) James Tate 1996
This Lime Tree Bower My Prison Samuel Taylor Coleridge 1797
The Triumph of Time Algernon Charles Swinburne 1866
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles John Keats 1817
Surreptitious Kissing Denis Johnson 1994

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