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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
For the Graduation [Bolinas, 1973] Robert Creeley 2016
A Bird came down the Walk (328) Emily Dickinson 1890
I speak with the future. Jane Hirshfield 2026
The Marshes of Glynn Sidney Lanier 1878
The Coming of the Ship Kahlil Gibran 1923
Exposure Wilfred Owen 2016
An Irish Airman Foresees His Death W. B. Yeats 1919
Buffalo Bill ’s E. E. Cummings 1976
The Goops Gelett Burgess 1903
Parent's Pantoum Carolyn Kizer 1996
Barbie Chang Got Her Hair Done Victoria Chang 2017
Julius Caesar, Act II, Scene I [It must be by his death. And for my part] William Shakespeare 2017
The Iliad, Book XVIII [The Shield of Achilles] Homer 1715
Daughter Gabrielle Bates 2026
These Poems June Jordan 1977
Travelling William Wordsworth 1802
The Elephant is Slow to Mate D. H. Lawrence 1964
To a Young Poet Zaina Alsous 2025
To the Moon [fragment] Percy Bysshe Shelley 2016
Hamlet, Act III, Scene III [Oh my offence is rank] William Shakespeare 1603

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