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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
Love Elegy in the Chinese Garden, with Koi Nathan McClain 2017
Moon for Our Daughters Annie Finch 2016
Ditty Kevin Young 2016
Paradise Lost, Book IV, Lines 639–652 John Milton 1667
Mr. Macklin’s Jack O’Lantern David McCord 1952
Question May Swenson 1978
Notes from the Other Side Jane Kenyon 1993
Touching and Being Touched Jenny George 2026
Dreams Paul Laurence Dunbar 1903
A Single Woman’s Bedroom Yi Lei 2018
Summer Silence E. E. Cummings 1913
The Desolate Field William Carlos Williams 1921
Danse Russe William Carlos Williams 1962
Affirmation Donald Hall 2002
The Dreamer Dulcie Deamer 1920
A Song in Summer Sophie Jewett 1910
A Very Short Song Dorothy Parker 1926
The Charm of 5:30 David Berman 2013
Sonnet III: “Mindful of you the sodden earth in spring” Edna St. Vincent Millay 1917
Christmas Carol Paul Laurence Dunbar 1922

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