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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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the mother Gwendolyn Brooks 1945
A Noiseless Patient Spider Walt Whitman 1891
Eloisa to Abelard Alexander Pope 1717
Daughter Gabrielle Bates 2026
In the City Chen Chen 2017
Looking for The Gulf Motel Richard Blanco 2012
Fear Ciaran Carson 2001
This Living Hand John Keats 1818
Forever Paul Laurence Dunbar 1901
The Iliad, Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles] Homer 1715
The Anactoria Poem Sappho 2007
For the Graduation [Bolinas, 1973] Robert Creeley 2016
Zone Guillaume Apollinaire 1995
Carrying Our Words Ofelia Zepeda 2015
poem I wrote sitting across the table from you Kevin Varrone 2013
The Marshes of Glynn Sidney Lanier 1878
Deer Hit Jon Loomis 2001
A Boat, Beneath a Sunny Sky Lewis Carroll 1882
To the Daisy William Wordsworth 1807
As an unperfect actor on the stage (Sonnet 23) William Shakespeare 1904

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