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poems, use the links to
Favorite Poems or
Original Poems.
Click on the following link for a full list of original poems submitted
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Original Poem Index.
Index to Favorite Poems (by author)
Anna Akhmatova—I
Have Learned to Live Simply
Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen—Furies
and other poems (external link)
Matthew Arnold—The Buried Life and
Self-Dependence
W.H. Auden—September 1, 1939
(a link to www.poets.org, the Web site
of the Academy of American Poets)
Mihály Babits—Question
at Night
David Bates—Speak Gently
Charles Baudelaire—Elevation, Calm
and The Beacons
Hilaire Belloc—The
Microbe
William Blake—The Poison Tree,
The Price of
Experience (an excerpt from "The Four Zoas"), and
The Garden of Love
Alexander Blok—Oh,
how desperately I want to live
Elizabeth Barrett Browning—How Do I Love Thee
Robert Browning—A Woman's Last Word and
Love in
Life
George
Gordon, Lord Byron—When
We Two Parted and
All for Love
Bliss Carman—Earth
Voices
Paul Celan—Night
Ray
E.E. Cummings—i like my
body when it is with your
Emily Dickinson—Success is counted sweetest, "Hope" is the
thing with feathers, and
I dwell in
Possibility
John Donne—The Sun Rising and his
Meditation XVII (No
Man Is an Island)
Paul Laurence Dunbar—Sympathy,
A Choice,
and We Wear the
Mask
Bulent Ecevit—Turkish-Greek
Poem
T.S. Eliot—The
Hippopotamus
Ralph Waldo Emerson—Each
and All
Robert Frost—Fire and Ice,
The Tuft of Flowers,
and
Stopping by Woods
on a Snowy Evening
Thomas Gray—Elegy
Written in a Country Churchyard
Haiku (a
selection from Japanese masters
George Herbert—The
World
Nazim Hikmet—On
Living (external link)
James Joyce—Ecce
Puer
Ben Jonson—It's
Not Growing Like a Tree
John Keats—To Hope,
Ode to a Nightingale, and
Bright Star
(submitted by Mary Henry)
Rudyard Kipling—If
David H. Lawrence—A Spiritual Woman
Emma Lazarus—The
New Colossus
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow—The Arrow and the Song,
Endymion, A Psalm of Life,
and The Rainy Day
Fedrico Garcia Lorca—Song
of the Horseman
Amy Lowell—Free
Fantasia on Japanese Themes
James Russell Lowell—Stanzas
On Freedom
Don Marquis—Frustration
Edgar Lee Masters—George Gray
Edna St. Vincent Millay—Renascence
David Mills—I
Feel I'm Growing Old
Harriet Monroe—A
Farewell and Blue Ridge
Sarojini Naidu—Past
and Future
Pablo Neruda—Poetry
Arrived
Eugene O'Neill—To
Winter
Petrarch—You
who hear within my scattered verse
Edgar Allan Poe—A Dream
within a Dream and
Annabel Lee
Adrienne Rich—Delta
(external link)
Rainer Maria Rilke—You
Who Never Arrived
Christina Rossetti—De
Profundis
Jelaluddin Rumi—Whoever
Brought Me Here (external link) and
I Am Not
Margaret Sangster—The
Sin of Omission
Sappho—Will None Say of Sappho
and You Ask How Love Can Keep
the Mortal Soul
Sir Walter Scott—The
Resolve
Robert W. Service—The
Song of the Wage-Slave and
A Rolling
Stone
William Shakespeare—All the World's a Stage
William Shakespeare—To
Be, or Not To Be
William Shakespeare—When in Disgrace with Fortune
and Men's Eyes,
When to the Sessions of Sweet
Silent Thought, and
Let Me Not to
the Marriage of True Minds
Percy Bysshe Shelley—Ode to the West Wind
Eli Siegel—
Twenty-One Distichs About Children and To
Dylan Thomas
Mattie J.T. Stepanek—
For Our World
(external link—scroll
down to find the poem)
Wallace Stevens—Sunday
Morning
Robert Louis Stevenson—A
Selection from A Child's Garden of Verses
John Millington Synge—The
Prelude
Rabindranath Tagore—Where The Mind is Without Fear
and Playthings
Sara Teasdale—Wisdom
and Barter
Marina Tsvetaeva—For
My Poems
Walt Whitman—Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
Walt Whitman—Song of the Open Road
John Greenleaf Whittier—Disarmament
and Maud Muller
William Carlos Williams—Winter
Trees
William Wordsworth—I
Wandered Lonely as a Cloud (Daffodils),
The Character of
the Happy Warrior,
The World Is Too
Much with Us,
We Are Seven,
and My Heart
Leaps Up.
Sir Thomas Wyatt—Tangled
I Was in Love's Snare
William Butler Yeats—The Lake Isle of Innisfree
and
The Municipal
Gallery Revisited (with reference to a poem by John Millington
Synge)
Alfonso Guillén Zelaya—Lord,
I Ask a Garden
Index to Original Poems
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