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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
Mama’s Promise Marilyn Nelson 1985
My Mother Would Be a Falconress Robert Duncan 1968
Fifteen, Maybe Sixteen Things to Worry About Judith Viorst 1981
Yesterday W. S. Merwin 1983
An Old-Fashioned Song John Hollander 1993
The Haunting Alan Shapiro 2005
Back Beckian Fritz Goldberg 2005
In the Greenhouse Eugenio Montale 2004
Apostrophe Angie Estes 2005
Constellations Steven Heighton 2004
The Helmet A. F. Moritz 2004
Lines on Retirement, after Reading Lear David Wright 2005
Vacation Rita Dove 1994
The Lullaby of History Kevin Boyle 2005
Cut Off the Ears of Winter Peter Covino 2005
View from Outside David Keplinger 2005
Beneath Speech Mary Ann Samyn 2005
Thinking of Warsaw Hugh Seidman 2005
Epilogue Robert Lowell 1975
How it comes to pass Megan Johnson 2005

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