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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
Written on the Banks of the Arun Charlotte Smith 1785
Poem Alice Notley 2008
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [I listen to songs] Tada Chimako 2010
Civilization Carl Phillips 2011
The Love-Hat Relationship Aaron Belz 2010
my dream about being white Lucille Clifton 1989
Dangerous Astronomy Sherman Alexie 2009
Book 4, Ode 1 [To Venus] Horace 1673
The Barrier Claude McKay 1922
Sonnet [Nothing was ever what it claimed to be,] Karen Volkman 2008
To Electra Robert Herrick 1648
Don Juan [If from great nature's or our own abyss] George Gordon Byron 1819
Father’s Day James Tate 2008
This City Liam Rector 1984
Safe Sex Donald Hall 2006
Hands Siv Cedering 1973
The Mad Potter John Hollander 1988
Record Katrina Vandenberg 2005
Bottom Feeders Arielle Hebert 2026
And the Place Was Water Nicholas Gulig 2024

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