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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.

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World Below the Brine Walt Whitman 1891
An Address to Miss Phillis Wheatley Jupiter Hammon 1787
The Phoenix Hafez 1876
Looking Back in My Eighty-First Year Maxine Kumin 2008
The Lower East Side of Manhattan Victor Hernández Cruz 2001
Tender Buttons [A Box] Gertrude Stein 1914
A Poem about Intelligence for My Brothers and Sisters (audio only) June Jordan 1992
Love Incarnate Frank Bidart 1997
My Letters! all dead paper... (Sonnet 28) Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1850
Twilight: After Haying Jane Kenyon 1996
I Might Have Dreamed This Kirsten Dierking 2001
Metamorphosis VIII, 611–724 Ovid 1683
America Herman Melville 1866
Tears in Sleep Louise Bogan 1923
Bottom Feeders Arielle Hebert 2026
[The evening darkens over] Robert Bridges 1890
The Teeth on My Wrist Elizabeth Bradfield 2026
Winter Jorge Galán 2025
Those Everlasting Blues Alfred Kreymborg 1929
I Woke You with Wagner, Logan February 2025

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