Greatest Poems Ever Written
On the Idle Hill of Summer
A. E. Housman
Ode: Of Wit
Abraham Cowley
from The Rape of the Lock, from Canto 1
Alexander Pope
Ode on Solitude
Alexander Pope
from Essay on Man, Epistle II
Alexander Pope
from Essay on Criticism [“But most by Numbers”]
Alexander Pope
from The Lotos-Eaters
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Tears, Idle Tears
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Lady of Shalott
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Kraken
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M.
Amy Lowell
The Gallery
Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell
The Rights of Woman
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
The Author to Her Book
Anne Bradstreet
The Prologue
Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Anne Bradstreet
The Introduction
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
Adam Posed
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
A Nocturnal Reverie
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
from Everyman
Anonymous
My Picture Left in Scotland
Ben Jonson
The Hourglass
Ben Jonson
X Mon. December [1744] hath xxxi days.
Benjamin Franklin
Chicago
Carl Sandburg
Fog
Carl Sandburg
The Sea View
Charlotte Smith
from Goblin Market
Christina Rossetti
A Birthday
Christina Rossetti
A Daughter of Eve
Christina Rossetti
In an Artist's Studio
Christina Rossetti
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe
from Dr. Faustus, Scene 12
Christopher Marlowe
from The Divine Comedy, from The Inferno
Dante Alighieri
Jury Duty
Deena Linett
The Tiger in the Driveway
Deena Linett
The City in the Sea
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
The Bells
Edgar Allan Poe
Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe
Doc Hill
Edgar Lee Masters
Seth Compton
Edgar Lee Masters
from Amoretti: Sonnet 67
Edmund Spenser
from The Faerie Queene, from The First Booke
Edmund Spenser
Recuerdo
Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Fig
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Second Fig
Edna St. Vincent Millay
from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr
Edward FitzGerald
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Edward Lear
Miniver Cheevy
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The House on the Hill
Edwin Arlington Robinson
from Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet 43
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Stars
Emily Brontë
348
Emily Dickinson
712
Emily Dickinson
254
Emily Dickinson
303
Emily Dickinson
328
Emily Dickinson
The New Colossus
Emma Lazarus
In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound
I Write My Mother a Poem
Fleda Brown
The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives
Fleda Brown
The Billion Heartbeats of the Mammal
Gary Fincke
The Magpie Evening: A Prayer
Gary Fincke
from The Canterbury Tales, from The Wife of Bath's Prologue
Geoffrey Chaucer
A. E. Housman
Ode: Of Wit
Abraham Cowley
from The Rape of the Lock, from Canto 1
Alexander Pope
Ode on Solitude
Alexander Pope
from Essay on Man, Epistle II
Alexander Pope
from Essay on Criticism [“But most by Numbers”]
Alexander Pope
from The Lotos-Eaters
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Tears, Idle Tears
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Charge of the Light Brigade
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Lady of Shalott
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Kraken
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
A London Thoroughfare. 2 A.M.
Amy Lowell
The Gallery
Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell
The Rights of Woman
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
The Author to Her Book
Anne Bradstreet
The Prologue
Anne Bradstreet
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Anne Bradstreet
The Introduction
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
Adam Posed
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
A Nocturnal Reverie
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea
from Everyman
Anonymous
My Picture Left in Scotland
Ben Jonson
The Hourglass
Ben Jonson
X Mon. December [1744] hath xxxi days.
Benjamin Franklin
Chicago
Carl Sandburg
Fog
Carl Sandburg
The Sea View
Charlotte Smith
from Goblin Market
Christina Rossetti
A Birthday
Christina Rossetti
A Daughter of Eve
Christina Rossetti
In an Artist's Studio
Christina Rossetti
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Christopher Marlowe
from Dr. Faustus, Scene 12
Christopher Marlowe
from The Divine Comedy, from The Inferno
Dante Alighieri
Jury Duty
Deena Linett
The Tiger in the Driveway
Deena Linett
The City in the Sea
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven
Edgar Allan Poe
The Bells
Edgar Allan Poe
Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe
Doc Hill
Edgar Lee Masters
Seth Compton
Edgar Lee Masters
from Amoretti: Sonnet 67
Edmund Spenser
from The Faerie Queene, from The First Booke
Edmund Spenser
Recuerdo
Edna St. Vincent Millay
First Fig
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Second Fig
Edna St. Vincent Millay
from The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám of Naishápúr
Edward FitzGerald
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
Edward Lear
Miniver Cheevy
Edwin Arlington Robinson
The House on the Hill
Edwin Arlington Robinson
from Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnet 43
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Stars
Emily Brontë
348
Emily Dickinson
712
Emily Dickinson
254
Emily Dickinson
303
Emily Dickinson
328
Emily Dickinson
The New Colossus
Emma Lazarus
In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound
I Write My Mother a Poem
Fleda Brown
The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives
Fleda Brown
The Billion Heartbeats of the Mammal
Gary Fincke
The Magpie Evening: A Prayer
Gary Fincke
from The Canterbury Tales, from The Wife of Bath's Prologue
Geoffrey Chaucer
When We Two Parted
George Gordon, Lord Byron
She walks in beauty
George Gordon, Lord Byron
So, we’ll go no more a roving
George Gordon, Lord Byron
And Thou Art Dead, As Young and Fair
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Man
George Herbert
God's Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring and Fall
Gerard Manley Hopkins
[Carrion Comfort]
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Athletes
Grace Cavalieri
Dates
Grace Cavalieri
The Retreat
Henry Vaughan
They Are All Gone into the World of Light!
Henry Vaughan
The Fire of Drift-Wood
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
America
Herman Melville
Book 1, No. 5 (“To Pyrrha”)
Horace
Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10)
John Donne
The Baite
John Donne
The Flea
John Donne
Song [Go and catch a falling star]
John Donne
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
John Dryden
Burning Drift-Wood
John Greenleaf Whittier
Ichabod!
John Greenleaf Whittier
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
John Keats
La Belle Dame sans Merci
John Keats
from Paradise Lost, Book I
John Milton
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
John Milton
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
Jonathan Swift
from On the Equality of the Sexes, Part I
Judith Sargent Murray
On the Welch Language
Katherine Philips
in the morning
Kenneth Carroll
Riding Shotgun
Kenneth Carroll
Climbing the Three Hills in Search of the Best Christmas Tree
Len Roberts
The List of Most Difficult Words
Len Roberts
Birthday Song
Leon Markowicz
Call Out
Leon Markowicz
Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll
The Poetess’s Hasty Resolution
Margaret Cavendish
Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold
The Last Leaf
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Chambered Nautilus
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Hélas
Oscar Wilde
Metamorphosis VII, 611 – 724
Ovid
Sympathy
Paul Laurence Dunbar
We Wear the Mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Percy Bysshe Shelley
To a Sky-Lark
Percy Bysshe Shelley
from The House of Night
Philip Freneau
To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband
Phillis Wheatley
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
Phillis Wheatley
[The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy]
Queen Elizabeth I
Concord Hymn
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brahma
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
Richard Lovelace
To Althea, from Prison
Richard Lovelace
My Last Duchess
Robert Browning
To a Mouse
Robert Burns
Auld Lang Syne
Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose
Robert Burns
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost
George Gordon, Lord Byron
She walks in beauty
George Gordon, Lord Byron
So, we’ll go no more a roving
George Gordon, Lord Byron
And Thou Art Dead, As Young and Fair
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Man
George Herbert
God's Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Spring and Fall
Gerard Manley Hopkins
[Carrion Comfort]
Gerard Manley Hopkins
Athletes
Grace Cavalieri
Dates
Grace Cavalieri
The Retreat
Henry Vaughan
They Are All Gone into the World of Light!
Henry Vaughan
The Fire of Drift-Wood
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
America
Herman Melville
Book 1, No. 5 (“To Pyrrha”)
Horace
Death, be not proud (Holy Sonnet 10)
John Donne
The Baite
John Donne
The Flea
John Donne
Song [Go and catch a falling star]
John Donne
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham
John Dryden
Burning Drift-Wood
John Greenleaf Whittier
Ichabod!
John Greenleaf Whittier
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
John Keats
La Belle Dame sans Merci
John Keats
from Paradise Lost, Book I
John Milton
When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
John Milton
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General
Jonathan Swift
from On the Equality of the Sexes, Part I
Judith Sargent Murray
On the Welch Language
Katherine Philips
in the morning
Kenneth Carroll
Riding Shotgun
Kenneth Carroll
Climbing the Three Hills in Search of the Best Christmas Tree
Len Roberts
The List of Most Difficult Words
Len Roberts
Birthday Song
Leon Markowicz
Call Out
Leon Markowicz
Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll
The Walrus and the Carpenter
Lewis Carroll
The Poetess’s Hasty Resolution
Margaret Cavendish
Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold
The Last Leaf
Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Chambered Nautilus
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Hélas
Oscar Wilde
Metamorphosis VII, 611 – 724
Ovid
Sympathy
Paul Laurence Dunbar
We Wear the Mask
Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to the West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
Percy Bysshe Shelley
To a Sky-Lark
Percy Bysshe Shelley
from The House of Night
Philip Freneau
To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband
Phillis Wheatley
To S. M., a Young African Painter, on Seeing His Works
Phillis Wheatley
[The doubt of future foes exiles my present joy]
Queen Elizabeth I
Concord Hymn
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Brahma
Ralph Waldo Emerson
To Lucasta, Going to the Wars
Richard Lovelace
To Althea, from Prison
Richard Lovelace
My Last Duchess
Robert Browning
To a Mouse
Robert Burns
Auld Lang Syne
Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose
Robert Burns
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost
Nothing Gold Can Stay
Robert Frost
Mending Wall
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
The Shivering Beggar
Robert Graves
To Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Robert Herrick
The Argument of His Book
Robert Herrick
To Find God
Robert Herrick
Recessional
Rudyard Kipling
If—
Rudyard Kipling
The Soldier
Rupert Brooke
Frost at Midnight
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Eolian Harp
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To Atthis
Sappho
I Am Not Yours
Sara Teasdale
To Mr. Stuart
Sarah Wentworth Morton
Out upon It!
Sir John Suckling
from Astrophil and Stella
Sir Philip Sidney
A Vision upon the Fairy Queen
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Lie
Sir Walter Raleigh
from War Is Kind
Stephen Crane
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T. S. Eliot
Now Winter Nights Enlarge
Thomas Campion
A Song [Ask me no more where Jove bestows]
Thomas Carew
The Spring
Thomas Carew
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray
The Convergence of the Twain
Thomas Hardy
Hap
Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush
Thomas Hardy
I Remember, I Remember
Thomas Hood
Dirge
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The time I’ve lost in wooing
Thomas Moore
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
Thomas Moore
They Flee from Me
Thomas Wyatt
If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line
W. S. Gilbert
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Wallace Stevens
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Wallace Stevens
from Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
from Passage to India
Walt Whitman
A Noiseless, Patient Spider
Walt Whitman
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Walt Whitman
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen
Little Lamb
William Blake
The Tyger
William Blake
Love’s Secret
William Blake
The Chimney-Sweeper
William Blake
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old
William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
William Butler Yeats
Invictus
William Ernest Henley
from Piers Plowman
William Langland
Sonnet 29
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 55
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130
William Shakespeare
All the World’s a Stage
William Shakespeare
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
William Wordsworth
The Tables Turned
William Wordsworth
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
Expostulation and Reply
William Wordsworth
We Are Seven
William Wordsworth
Ode on Intimations of Immortality . . .
William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us
William Wordsworth
Robert Frost
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
The Shivering Beggar
Robert Graves
To Virgins, to Make Much of Time
Robert Herrick
The Argument of His Book
Robert Herrick
To Find God
Robert Herrick
Recessional
Rudyard Kipling
If—
Rudyard Kipling
The Soldier
Rupert Brooke
Frost at Midnight
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Eolian Harp
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
To Atthis
Sappho
I Am Not Yours
Sara Teasdale
To Mr. Stuart
Sarah Wentworth Morton
Out upon It!
Sir John Suckling
from Astrophil and Stella
Sir Philip Sidney
A Vision upon the Fairy Queen
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd
Sir Walter Raleigh
The Lie
Sir Walter Raleigh
from War Is Kind
Stephen Crane
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T. S. Eliot
Now Winter Nights Enlarge
Thomas Campion
A Song [Ask me no more where Jove bestows]
Thomas Carew
The Spring
Thomas Carew
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray
The Convergence of the Twain
Thomas Hardy
Hap
Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush
Thomas Hardy
I Remember, I Remember
Thomas Hood
Dirge
Thomas Lovell Beddoes
The time I’ve lost in wooing
Thomas Moore
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
Thomas Moore
They Flee from Me
Thomas Wyatt
If You're Anxious for to Shine in the High Aesthetic Line
W. S. Gilbert
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Wallace Stevens
Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
Wallace Stevens
from Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
from Passage to India
Walt Whitman
A Noiseless, Patient Spider
Walt Whitman
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
Walt Whitman
Anthem for Doomed Youth
Wilfred Owen
Little Lamb
William Blake
The Tyger
William Blake
Love’s Secret
William Blake
The Chimney-Sweeper
William Blake
The Lake Isle of Innisfree
William Butler Yeats
When You Are Old
William Butler Yeats
The Second Coming
William Butler Yeats
Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
William Butler Yeats
Invictus
William Ernest Henley
from Piers Plowman
William Langland
Sonnet 29
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 55
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130
William Shakespeare
All the World’s a Stage
William Shakespeare
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
William Wordsworth
The Tables Turned
William Wordsworth
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
Expostulation and Reply
William Wordsworth
We Are Seven
William Wordsworth
Ode on Intimations of Immortality . . .
William Wordsworth
The world is too much with us
William Wordsworth
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