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 OdysseyHomer
- The Complete Works of William ShakespeareWilliam Shakespeare
- Works of Edgar Allan Poe, Vol. 1Edgar Allan Poe
- The Lady of the LakeWalter Scott
- Sonnets from the PortugueseElizabeth Barrett Browning
- Erotica RomanaJohann Wolfgang von Goethe
- India's Love LyricsLaurence Hope
- Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic PoemUnknown
- The IliadHomer
- The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VIIOvid
- Spoon River AnthologyEdgar Lee Masters
- Works of Edgar Allan Poe (Index)Edgar Allan Poe
- Don JuanGeorge Gordon Byron
- Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book IEdmund Spenser
- Divine Comedy of Dante AlighieriDante Alighieri
- Paradise LostJohn Milton
- The Works of Alexander PopeAlexander Pope
- Songs of Innocence and of ExperienceWilliam Blake
- The Satires of Juvenal, PersiusJuvenal
- The Canterbury Tales, and Other PoemsGeoffrey Chaucer
- The Ballad of the White HorseG. K. Chesterton
- Story of Genesis and Exodus
- Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, HellDante Alighieri
- Childe Harold's PilgrimageGeorge Gordon Byron
- Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and HomericaHesiod
- Shakespeare's SonnetsWilliam Shakespeare
- La Divina Commedia di DanteDante Alighieri
- AeneidosVirgil
- Poems and Songs of Robert BurnsRobert Burns
- Chambers’s Journal of Popular LiteratureVarious
- I. Beowulf
- Sir Gawayne and the Green
- The Divine ComedyDante Alighieri
- The Rámáyan of Válmíki, translatedValmiki
- La OdiseaHomer
- The ProphetKahlil Gibran
- Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman
- Songs and rhymes of a lead minerThomas Grierson Gracie
- Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads
- A Child's Garden of VersesRobert Louis Stevenson
- Poetical Works of Matthew ArnoldMatthew Arnold
- Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, CompleteEmily Dickinson
- The Marriage of Heaven and HellWilliam Blake
- The Song Celestial
- The Children's Garland from the Best Poets
- The Aeneid of VirgilVirgil
- Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A SelectionWalter Savage Landor
- The Book of BalladsSir Theodore Martin
- The Hesperides & Noble NumbersRobert Herrick
- The Metamorphoses of Publius OvidusOvid
- Negro Folk RhymesThomas Washington Talley
- The Principles of English VersificationPaull F. Baum
- Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses
- Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul
- The Posy Ring
- Indian PoetrySir Edwin Arnold
- PoesiasAlexandre Herculano
- Cautionary Tales for ChildrenHilaire Belloc
- The Temple of NatureErasmus Darwin
- IonicaWilliam Johnson Cory
- The Nursery Rhyme Book
- Poems of Rural LifeWilliam Barnes
- Thomas Davis: Selections from His Prose and PoetryThomas Davis
- Aesop, in RhymeAesop
- Distruzione: Poema FuturistaF. T. Marinetti
- La Chanson de RolandUnknown
- The KalevalaElias Lönnrot
- Helen Redeemed and Other PoemsMaurice Hewlett
- Egyptian Literature
- Ancient Ballads and Legends of HindustanToru Dutt
- Browning's HeroinesEthel Colburn Mayne
- Tales of a Wayside InnHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
- A Shropshire LadA. E. Housman
- Robert BurnsJohn Campbell Shairp
- Lyrics from the Song-Books of the Elizabethan Age
- The Complete Works of Robert BrowningRobert Browning
- Lundy's Lane, and Other PoemsDuncan Campbell Scott
- Victorian Songs
- The Complete Poetical Works of ShelleyPercy Bysshe Shelley
- The Song of HiawathaHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Idylls of the KingLord Tennyson Alfred
- The Early Poems of TennysonLord Tennyson Alfred
- Teckningar och drömmarFredrika Charlotta Tengström Runeberg
- Original Sonnets on Various SubjectsAnna Seward
- Selections from Early Middle English
- The Book of Brave Old Ballads
- Keats: Poems Published in 1820John Keats
- Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow CampJohn A. Lomax
- The Angel in the HouseCoventry Patmore
- The GardenerRabindranath Tagore
- Now We Are SixA. A. Milne
- The New Life (La Vita Nuova)Dante Alighieri
- The Hunting of the SnarkLewis Carroll
- Grimm Tales Made GayGuy Wetmore Carryl
- Poems of Rainer Maria Rilke Rainer Maria Rilke
- Lays of Ancient RomeThomas Babington Macaulay
- Poems by Adam Lindsay GordonAdam Lindsay Gordon
- MarmionWalter Scott
- The LusiadLuís de Camões
- The Biglow PapersJames Russell Lowell
- The Secrets of the SelfMuhammad Iqbal
- Poems of Victor Hugo Victor Hugo
- Selected PoemsRobert Frost
- Orlando FuriosoLudovico Ariosto
- The Nursery Rhymes of EnglandJames Orchard Halliwell
- Nonsense BooksEdward Lear
- Tender ButtonsGertrude Stein
- The Defence of Guenevere and Other PoemsWilliam Morris
- The Poems of SapphoSappho
- The Works of William CowperWilliam Cowper
- Ballads of Robin Hood and Other OutlawsFrank Sidgwick
- Poems on Various SubjectsPhillis Wheatley
- The Poems of Felicia HemansFelicia Hemans
- Aurora LeighElizabeth Barrett Browning
- The Fall of TroyQuintus Smyrnaeus
- Stories in VerseHenry Abbey
- When We Were Very YoungA. A. Milne
- The Collected Poems of Rupert BrookeRupert Brooke
- The Man from Snowy River Banjo Paterson
- The Complete Poems of Thomas MooreThomas Moore
- The GeorgicsVirgil
- A Hundred and Seventy Chinese PoemsArthur Waley
- Something Else AgainFranklin P. Adams
- The New MorningAlfred Noyes
- The Golden TreasuryFrancis Turner Palgrave
- William Blake: A Critical EssayAlgernon Charles Swinburne
- Poems (1920) T. S. Eliot
- Rubáiyát of Omar KhayyámOmar Khayyám
- Prufrock and Other ObservationsT. S. Eliot
- The MadmanKahlil Gibran
- CaneJean Toomer
- An Introduction to the Study of BrowningHiram Corson
- The Spell of the YukonRobert W. Service
- The Works of HoraceHorace
- Fruit-GatheringRabindranath Tagore
- The Gods of PegānaLord Dunsany
- The Battaile of AgincourtMichael Drayton
- Songs of Kabir Kabir
- The Mesnevi Rumi
- The Congo, and Other PoemsVachel Lindsay
- Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton BellThe Brontë Sisters
- Ancient Nahuatl PoetryDaniel G. Brinton
- The Sonnets, Triumphs and Other Poems of Petrarch Petrarch
- The Eclogues Virgil
- In Memoriam Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- The Idylls of Theocritus Theocritus
- Barrack-Room Ballads Rudyard Kipling
- Hymns and Spiritual Songs Isaac Watts
- Jerusalem DeliveredTorquato Tasso
- The Poets’ Lincoln Osborn H. Oldroyd
- The Amores Ovid
- The Wind Among the Reeds W. B. Yeats
- The Psalms of David Isaac Watts
- More Translations from the Chinese Arthur Waley
- In the Days When the World Was Wide Henry Lawson
- The Poems of Henry Kendall Henry Kendall
- The Carmina of Catullus Catullus
- New Poems and Variant Readings Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Golden Threshold Sarojini Naidu
- Sappho Henry Thornton Wharton
- Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Rhymes of a Red Cross Man Robert W. Service
- Ballads of a Cheechako Robert W. Service
- Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde
- The Poems of Henry Van Dyke Henry van Dyke
- The Book of Psalms (King James Version) Anonymous
- Pharsalia Lucan
- The Weary Blues Langston Hughes
- Poems from the Divan of Hafiz Hafiz
- The Roman Poets of the Republic W. Y. Sellar
- Sonnets and Madrigals of Michelangelo Michelangelo Buonarroti
- The Poetry of South Africa Alexander Wilmot
- The Sonnets of Michelangelo and Campanella Michelangelo and Tommaso Campanella
- Genesis A Anonymous
- Rio Grande’s Last Race and Other Verses Banjo Paterson
- Rhymes of a Rolling Stone Robert W. Service
- Harlem Shadows Claude McKay
- Underwoods Robert Louis Stevenson
- Fir-Flower Tablets Florence Ayscough and Amy Lowell
- John Marr and Other Poems Herman Melville
- Select Epigrams from the Greek Anthology J. W. Mackail
- Theocritus, Bion and Moschus Theocritus
- The Rape of Lucrece William Shakespeare
- The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems Hanford Lennox Gordon
- Moral Emblems Robert Louis Stevenson
- A Lute of Jade L. Cranmer-Byng
- The Poetry of Robert Browning Stopford A. Brooke
- The Literature of Ecstasy Albert Mordell
- The Poems and Fragments of Catullus Catullus
- Ballads of a Bohemian Robert W. Service
- Songs of a Sourdough Robert W. Service
- Browning and the Dramatic Monologue S. S. Curry
- Vidyapati: Songs of the Love of Radha and Krishna Vidyapati
- Looking Toward Sunset Lydia Maria Child
- Lyrics of Earth Archibald Lampman
- Cathay Ezra Pound
- The Fugitive Rabindranath Tagore
- The Bustān of Sadi Sadi
- Men and Women Robert Browning
- Ballads and Lyrics of Old France Andrew Lang
- The Kobzar of the Ukraine Taras Shevchenko
- Charmides and Other Poems Oscar Wilde
- Sea Garden H. D.
- The Book of Job Anonymous
- Japanese Prints John Gould Fletcher
- The Poem-Book of the Gael Eleanor Hull
- The Festival of Spring Rumi
- The Dean of Lismore’s Book James MacGregor
- The Vanity of Human Wishes Samuel Johnson
- Hymns for Christian Devotion John G. Adams
- Love’s Old Sweet Song George H. Ellwanger
- The Poetical Works of Henry Kirke White Henry Kirke White
- A Treasury of Canadian Verse Theodore H. Rand
- The Old Bush Songs A. B. Paterson
- The Garden of Bright Waters E. Powys Mathers
- The Luzumiyat of Abu’l-Ala Abu’l-Ala al-Ma’arri
- Echoes from the Sabine Farm Horace
- The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi Giacomo Leopardi
- Flint and Feather E. Pauline Johnson
- The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace Horace
- The Wild Swans at Coole W. B. Yeats
- Buddhist Psalms Shinran
- Rampolli George MacDonald
- Konrad Wallenrod Adam Mickiewicz
- Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics Bliss Carman
- Among the Millet and Other Poems Archibald Lampman
- The Kiltartan Poetry Book Lady Gregory
- Lyra Celtica Elizabeth A. Sharp
- The Odes and Carmen Saeculare of Horace Horace
- Christmas: Its Origin, Celebration and Significance Robert Haven Schauffler
- Chinese Poems Charles Budd
- Fifteenth Century Prose and Verse Alfred W. Pollard
- Saltbush Bill, J.P. Banjo Paterson
- Three Sunsets and Other Poems Lewis Carroll
- An Anthology of Australian Verse Bertram Stevens
- Poems of Frances E. W. Harper Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
- Chants for Socialists William Morris
- A Treasury of War Poetry George Herbert Clarke
- Enthusiasm and Other Poems Susanna Moodie
- Independence Day Robert Haven Schauffler
- Sacred Hymns from the German Frances Elizabeth Cox
- Embers Gilbert Parker
- The Poems of Katherine Mansfield Katherine Mansfield
- The Nuts of Knowledge George William Russell
- Anthology of Modern Indian Poetry Gwendoline Goodwin
- The Poems of Oliver Goldsmith Oliver Goldsmith
- The Poet Li Po Arthur Waley
- Des Imagistes Ezra Pound
- Bars and Shadows Ralph Chaplin
- The Elegies of Tibullus Tibullus
- Naval Songs and Ballads C. H. Firth
- Proverbial Philosophy Martin Farquhar Tupper
- Carolina Chansons DuBose Heyward and Hervey Allen
- The Epic Lascelles Abercrombie
- Contemporary Belgian Poetry Jethro Bithell
- The Bakchesarian Fountain Alexander Pushkin
- Sandhya Dhan Gopal Mukerji
- Ezra Pound: His Metric and Poetry T. S. Eliot
- A Lover’s Diary Gilbert Parker
- Paul Gerhardt’s Spiritual Songs Paul Gerhardt
- Robert Burns: How to Know Him William Allan Neilson
- Amores D. H. Lawrence
- Canzoni and Ripostes Ezra Pound
- Watchers of the Sky Alfred Noyes
- Sappho and Her Influence David M. Robinson
- The Dog’s Book of Verse J. Earl Clauson
- Gabriele Rossetti: A Versified Autobiography Gabriele Rossetti
- Morning and Evening Hymns for a Week Charlotte Elliott
- Poems in Prose Charles Baudelaire
- Under the Hill Aubrey Beardsley
- The Grey Brethren and Other Fragments Michael Fairless
- Digger Smith C. J. Dennis
- Atta Troll Heinrich Heine
- Laura Secord, the Heroine of 1812 Sarah Anne Curzon
- Hymns of the Greek Church John Brownlie
- Poems and Ballads of Heinrich Heine Heinrich Heine
- Color Countee Cullen
- Later Poems Bliss Carman
- Verses and Translations C. S. Calverley
- The Poetical Works of Mrs. Leprohon Rosanna Leprohon
- By Still Waters AE
- Michael Field Mary Sturgeon
- The Answering Voice Sara Teasdale
- Life and Remains of John Clare John Clare
- Fifty Years and Other Poems James Weldon Johnson
- The Poetical Works of William Collins William Collins
- The Green Helmet and Other Poems W. B. Yeats
- The Diwan of Abu’l-Ala Abu’l-Ala al-Ma’arri
- Grand’ther Baldwin’s Thanksgiving and Other Poems Horatio Alger Jr.
- Memories of Canada and Scotland Marquis of Lorne
- Remedia Amoris Ovid
- Tales of Ind and Other Poems T. Ramakrishna
- Wine, Women, and Song John Addington Symonds
- Home Lyrics Hannah S. Battersby
- Look! We Have Come Through! D. H. Lawrence
- Day Dreams Rudolph Valentino
- Poemata John Milton
- Ballades and Rondeaus Gleeson White
- The Shipwreck William Falconer
- Withered Leaves from Memory’s Garland Abigail Stanley Hanna
- Dreams and Images Joyce Kilmer
- Poems of James McIntyre James McIntyre
- Rhymes from the Russian John Pollen
- Lectures on Poetry Joseph Trapp
- Poems and Songs Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson
- The Poems of Leopardi Giacomo Leopardi
- An Introduction to the Study of Browning Arthur Symons
- Lord Byron as a Satirist in Verse Claude M. Fuess
- Minor Poems Rossiter Johnson
- Poems of Rebekah and Annie R. Smith Rebekah Smith
- Spenser R. W. Church
- Modern Poets and Poetry of Spain James Kennedy
- An Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry Samuel Wesley
- Poets and Dreamers Lady Gregory
- Robert F. Murray: His Poems Robert Fuller Murray
- Verses Popular and Humorous Henry Lawson
- Virgil and Lucretius Virgil and Lucretius
- Poems of Giosuè Carducci Giosuè Carducci
- On the Poetic Interpretation of Nature John Campbell Shairp
- Victor Roy Harriet Annie Wilkins
- Ballads of Books Brander Matthews
- The Dead Men’s Song Champion Ingraham Hitchcock
- Iberia Won Terence McMahon Hughes
- 35 Sonnets Fernando Pessoa
- Songs of Labor and Other Poems Morris Rosenfeld
- The White Wampum E. Pauline Johnson
- Welsh Poems and Ballads Ernest Rhys
- A Study of Poetry Bliss Perry
- Heart Songs Jean Blewett
- The Red Flower Henry van Dyke
- Fires of Driftwood Isabel Ecclestone Mackay
- Mirèio Frédéric Mistral
- New Poems D. H. Lawrence
- In Cupid’s Court Ina Russelle Warren
- An Irish Crazy-Quilt Arthur M. Forrester
- Pan and Æolus Charles Hamilton Musgrove
- Low Tide on Grand Pré Bliss Carman
- A Pindarick Ode on Painting Thomas Morrison
- A Vers de Société Anthology Carolyn Wells