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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- The Complete Works of William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare
- The Lady of the LakeWalter Scott
- The OdysseyHomer
- Erotica RomanaJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
- The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1Edgar Allan Poe
- Sonnets from the PortugueseElizabeth Barrett Browning
- The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2Burton Egbert Stevenson
- India's Love LyricsLaurence Hope
- Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic PoemUnknown
- The IliadHomer
- The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VIIOvid
- Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 — Boethius and TroilusGeoffrey Chaucer
- The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri
- Don JuanGeorge Gordon Byron
- The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translated into English verseValmiki
- Childe Harold's PilgrimageGeorge Gordon Byron
- Songs of Innocence and of ExperienceWilliam Blake
- Paradise LostJohn Milton
- Chaucer's Works, Volume 4 — The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer
- The AeneidVirgil
- The Ballad of the White HorseG. K. Chesterton
- Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book IEdmund Spenser
- The Canterbury Tales, and Other PoemsGeoffrey Chaucer
- The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The InfernoDante Alighieri
- The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition / Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five VolumesEdgar Allan Poe
- Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, HellDante Alighieri
- Shakespeare's SonnetsWilliam Shakespeare
- AeneidosVirgil
- La Divina Commedia di DanteDante Alighieri
- Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and HomericaHesiod
- The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & IIOvid
- Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight / An Alliterative Romance-Poem (c. 1360 A.D.)
- Poems and Songs of Robert BurnsRobert Burns
- The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3Baron George Gordon Byron Byron
- I. Beowulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem. II. The fight at Finnsburh: a fragment.
- The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4Baron George Gordon Byron Byron
- The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius / Literally translated into English prose, with notes, chronological tables, arguments, &c.Juvenal
- The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. PoetryBaron George Gordon Byron Byron
- The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 / Poetry – Volume 1Alexander Pope
- Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer
- The Story of Genesis and Exodus: An Early English Song, about 1250 A.D.
- Poetical Works of Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold
- The complete works of John Gower, volume 2John Gower
- The Book of Ballads / Eleventh Edition, 1870Sir Theodore Martin
- Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman
- Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science, and Art, fifth series, no. 153, vol. III, December 4, 1886Various
- Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads
- Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume IIHenry Vaughan
- The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2Baron George Gordon Byron Byron
- The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3)Christopher Marlowe
- Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age
- Egyptian Literature / Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings
- The Children's Garland from the Best Poets
- Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A SelectionWalter Savage Landor
- Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 7Charles Herbert Sylvester
- The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 5 / PoetryBaron George Gordon Byron Byron
- Thomas Davis, selections from his prose and poetryThomas Davis
- The ProphetKahlil Gibran
- Songs and rhymes of a lead minerThomas Grierson Gracie
- Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, CompleteEmily Dickinson
- Negro Folk Rhymes / Wise and Otherwise: With a StudyThomas Washington Talley
- Robert Burns. Vol. 2, Les OeuvresAuguste Angellier
- The Nursery Rhyme Book
- PoesiasAlexandre Herculano
- A Child's Garden of VersesRobert Louis Stevenson
- The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2Robert Herrick
- The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 20, No. 122, December, 1867 / A Magazine of Literature, Science, Art, and PoliticsVarious
- The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 5. / The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
- IonicaWilliam Johnson Cory
- The Marriage of Heaven and HellWilliam Blake
- Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset DialectWilliam Barnes
- Browning's HeroinesEthel Colburn Mayne
- Aesop, in Rhyme: Old Friends in a New DressAesop
- Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul
- The Book of Brave Old Ballads
- Victorian Songs: Lyrics of the Affections and Nature
- Ainslee's, Vol. 15, No. 6, July 1905Various
- Indian Poetry / Containing "The Indian Song of Songs," from the Sanskrit of the Gîta Govinda of Jayadeva, Two books from "The Iliad Of India" (Mahábhárata), "Proverbial Wisdom" from the Shlokas of the Hitopadesa, and other Oriental Poems.Sir Edwin Arnold
- The Posy Ring: A Book of Verse for Children
- The Temple of Nature; or, the Origin of Society: A Poem, with Philosophical NotesErasmus Darwin
- Teckningar och drömmarFredrika Charlotta Tengström Runeberg
- Selections from Early Middle English, 1130-1250. Part 1: Texts
- Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses; Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists
- La Chanson de Roland : Translated from the Seventh Edition of Léon GautierUnknown
- Tales of a Wayside InnHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Song Celestial; Or, Bhagavad-Gîtâ (from the Mahâbhârata) / Being a discourse between Arjuna, Prince of India, and the Supreme Being under the form of Krishna
- Distruzione: Poema FuturistaF. T. Marinetti
- The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 6. / The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
- The Principles of English VersificationPaull F. Baum
- Robert BurnsJohn Campbell Shairp
- Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern — Volume 07
- A Shropshire LadA. E. Housman
- The Defence of Guenevere and Other PoemsWilliam Morris
- La OdiseaHomer
- Lundy's Lane, and Other PoemsDuncan Campbell Scott