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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 Barrier Claude McKay 1922
Just Before Jorie Graham 2008
Surreptitious Kissing Denis Johnson 1994
The Reservation Adrian C. Louis 2007
I Would Like to Describe Zbigniew Herbert 2007
To Anthea Who May Command Him Any Thing Robert Herrick 1648
Karma Edwin Arlington Robinson 1925
A Hymn on the Nativity of My Savior Ben Jonson 1640
How like a winter hath my absence been (Sonnet 97) William Shakespeare 1609
Learning Judith Viorst 1981
Past Light Pimone Triplett 2005
The Earth Opens and Welcomes You Abdellatif Laâbi 2003
Breakfast Minnie Bruce Pratt 2003
Mama, Come Back Nellie Wong 1986
The Lost Pilot James Tate 1967
I Might Have Dreamed This Kirsten Dierking 2001
[In my eyes he matches the gods] Sappho 2007
A Divine Image William Blake 1794
The Great Migration Minnie Bruce Pratt 1999
Ode to My Son’s Birthmark Michelle Bitting 2026

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