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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
To the Roaring Wind Wallace Stevens 1923
Rambling Afaa Michael Weaver 2007
Day [excerpt] Kenneth Goldsmith 2003
The Vampire Madison Julius Cawein 1896
Lamia [Left to herself] John Keats 1820
Ships That Pass in the Night Paul Laurence Dunbar 1899
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame (Sonnet 129) William Shakespeare 1609
The Heron Linda Hogan 2008
Still Life Marianne Boruch 2008
The Sick Child Robert Louis Stevenson 1887
On Seeing the Elgin Marbles John Keats 1817
The Passing of the Year Robert W. Service 1912
Evening Hawk Robert Penn Warren 1985
Madam and the Phone Bill Langston Hughes 1994
How Can It Be I Am No Longer I Lucie Brock-Broido 1997
Short-Order Cook Jim Daniels 1985
If the Owl Calls Again John Haines 1993
Song of Myself John Canaday 2002
A Hermit Thrush Amy Clampitt 1997
The Song in the Dream Saskia Hamilton 2001

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