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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
Survivor Guilt Ron Padgett 2014
Friendship After Love Ella Wheeler Wilcox 2014
Daytime Begins with a Line by Anna Akhmatova Yusef Komunyakaa 2014
Two Sewing Hazel Hall 1921
England in 1819 Percy Bysshe Shelley 1839
Written on the Banks of the Arun Charlotte Smith 1785
Deep Lane [June 23rd, evening of the first fireflies] Mark Doty 2011
The Day I Saw Barack Obama Reading Derek Walcott’s Collected Poems Yusef Komunyakaa 2011
Heart Condition Jericho Brown 2011
Along with Youth Ernest Hemingway 1923
A Poem Robert Creeley 2006
A Spray of Water: Tanka [the hot water in] Tada Chimako 2010
Person of the Playful Star: Tanka [I listen to songs] Tada Chimako 2010
Civilization Carl Phillips 2011
Swimming in the Presence of Lurid Opposition Sawako Nakayasu 2010
Poems for Blok, 1 Marina Tsvetaeva 2010
On Snow Jonathan Swift 1857
The Next Table C. P. Cavafy 2008
To the Saguaro Cactus Tree in the Desert Rain James Wright 1992
Wilderness Carl Sandburg 1918

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