The Poetry Collection gathers the great verse of the public domain — the sonnets, epics, ballads, and lyric poems that have shaped literature across the ages. From Shakespeare’s sonnets and Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass to the Romantics, the Victorians, and the ancient poets, it is a treasury of the world’s most enduring poetry.
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- A Child's Garden of VersesRobert Louis Stevenson
- A Hundred and Seventy Chinese PoemsArthur Waley
- A Shropshire LadA. E. Housman
- AeneidosVirgil
- Aesop, in RhymeAesop
- An Introduction to the Study of BrowningHiram Corson
- Ancient Ballads and Legends of HindustanToru Dutt
- Ancient Nahuatl PoetryDaniel G. Brinton
- Aurora LeighElizabeth Barrett Browning
- Ballads of Robin Hood and Other OutlawsFrank Sidgwick
- Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic PoemUnknown
- Browning's HeroinesEthel Colburn Mayne
- CaneJean Toomer
- Cautionary Tales for ChildrenHilaire Belloc
- Chambers’s Journal of Popular LiteratureVarious
- Childe Harold's PilgrimageGeorge Gordon Byron
- Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads
- Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses
- Distruzione: Poema FuturistaF. T. Marinetti
- Divine Comedy of Dante AlighieriDante Alighieri
- Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, HellDante Alighieri
- Don JuanGeorge Gordon Byron
- Egyptian Literature
- Erotica RomanaJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Fruit-GatheringRabindranath Tagore
- Grimm Tales Made GayGuy Wetmore Carryl
- Helen Redeemed and Other PoemsMaurice Hewlett
- Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and HomericaHesiod
- I. Beowulf
- Idylls of the KingLord Tennyson Alfred
- Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A SelectionWalter Savage Landor
- India's Love LyricsLaurence Hope
- Indian PoetrySir Edwin Arnold
- IonicaWilliam Johnson Cory
- Jerusalem DeliveredTorquato Tasso
- Keats: Poems Published in 1820John Keats
- La Chanson de RolandUnknown
- La Divina Commedia di DanteDante Alighieri
- La OdiseaHomer
- Lays of Ancient RomeThomas Babington Macaulay
- Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman
- Lundy's Lane, and Other PoemsDuncan Campbell Scott
- Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age
- MarmionWalter Scott
- Negro Folk RhymesThomas Washington Talley
- Nonsense BooksEdward Lear
- Now We Are SixA. A. Milne
- Original Sonnets on Various SubjectsAnna Seward
- Orlando FuriosoLudovico Ariosto
- Paradise LostJohn Milton
- Poems and Songs of Robert BurnsRobert Burns
- Poems by Adam Lindsay GordonAdam Lindsay Gordon
- Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton BellThe Brontë Sisters
- Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, CompleteEmily Dickinson
- Poems of Rural LifeWilliam Barnes
- Poems on Various SubjectsPhillis Wheatley
- Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul
- PoesiasAlexandre Herculano
- Poetical Works of Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold
- Prufrock and Other ObservationsT. S. Eliot
- Robert BurnsJohn Campbell Shairp
- Rubáiyát of Omar KhayyámOmar Khayyám
- Selected PoemsRobert Frost
- Selections from Early Middle English
- Shakespeare's SonnetsWilliam Shakespeare
- Sir Gawayne and the Green
- Something Else AgainFranklin P. Adams
- Songs and rhymes of a lead minerThomas Grierson Gracie
- Songs of Innocence and of ExperienceWilliam Blake
- Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow CampJohn A. Lomax
- Sonnets from the PortugueseElizabeth Barrett Browning
- Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book IEdmund Spenser
- Spoon River AnthologyEdgar Lee Masters
- Stories in VerseHenry Abbey
- Story of Genesis and Exodus
- Tales of a Wayside InnHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Teckningar och drömmarFredrika Charlotta Tengström Runeberg
- Tender ButtonsGertrude Stein
- The Aeneid of VirgilVirgil
- The Angel in the HouseCoventry Patmore
- The Ballad of the White HorseG. K. Chesterton
- The Battaile of AgincourtMichael Drayton
- The Biglow PapersJames Russell Lowell
- The Book of BalladsSir Theodore Martin
- The Book of Brave Old Ballads
- The Canterbury Tales, and Other PoemsGeoffrey Chaucer
- The Children's Garland from the Best Poets
- The Collected Poems of Rupert BrookeRupert Brooke
- The Complete Poems of Thomas MooreThomas Moore
- The Complete Poetical Works of ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley
- The Complete Works of Robert BrowningRobert Browning
- The Complete Works of William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare
- The Congo, and Other PoemsVachel Lindsay
- The Defence of Guenevere and Other PoemsWilliam Morris
- The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri
- The Early Poems of TennysonLord Tennyson Alfred
- The Fall of TroyQuintus Smyrnaeus
- The GardenerRabindranath Tagore
- The GeorgicsVirgil
- The Gods of PegānaLord Dunsany
- The Golden TreasuryFrancis Turner Palgrave
- The Hesperides & Noble NumbersRobert Herrick
- The Hunting of the SnarkLewis Carroll
- The IliadHomer
- The KalevalaElias Lönnrot
- The Lady of the LakeWalter Scott
- The LusiadLuís de Camões
- The MadmanKahlil Gibran
- The Marriage of Heaven and HellWilliam Blake
- The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VIIOvid
- The Metamorphoses of Publius OvidusOvid
- The New Life (La Vita Nuova)Dante Alighieri
- The New MorningAlfred Noyes
- The Nursery Rhyme Book
- The Nursery Rhymes of EnglandJames Orchard Halliwell
- The OdysseyHomer
- The Poems of Felicia HemansFelicia Hemans
- The Poems of SapphoSappho
- The Posy Ring
- The Principles of English VersificationPaull F. Baum
- The ProphetKahlil Gibran
- The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translatedValmiki
- The Satires of Juvenal, PersiusJuvenal
- The Secrets of the SelfMuhammad Iqbal
- The Song Celestial
- The Song of HiawathaHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Spell of the YukonRobert W. Service
- The Temple of NatureErasmus Darwin
- The Works of Alexander PopeAlexander Pope
- The Works of HoraceHorace
- The Works of William CowperWilliam Cowper
- Thomas Davis: Selections from His Prose and PoetryThomas Davis
- Victorian Songs
- When We Were Very YoungA. A. Milne
- William Blake: A Critical EssayAlgernon Charles Swinburne
- Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Index)Edgar Allan Poe
- Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 1Edgar Allan Poe