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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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Song of Myself John Canaday 2002
Whales Weep Not! D. H. Lawrence 1964
When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes (Sonnet 29) William Shakespeare 1609
His Excuse for Loving Ben Jonson 1640
Baby Tortoise D. H. Lawrence 1964
Baseball and Writing Marianne Moore 1961
How Beastly the Bourgeois Is D. H. Lawrence 1964
The Elephant is Slow to Mate D. H. Lawrence 1964
Trees in the Garden D. H. Lawrence 1964
Nothing to Save D. H. Lawrence 1964
The White Horse D. H. Lawrence 1964
Listen, Lord: A Prayer James Weldon Johnson 1927
Bright Star John Keats 1838
Heroic Simile Robert Hass 1978
The Soldier David Ferry 1999
That Evening at Dinner David Ferry 1999
On Looking for Models Alan Dugan 1983
My Father Is a Retired Magician Ntozake Shange 1972
This Is a Photograph of Me Margaret Atwood 1998
Variation on the Word Sleep Margaret Atwood 1987

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