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| x Song of Myself |
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"Song of Myself" is a poem by Walt Whitman that is included in his work Leaves of Grass. It has been credited as “representing the core of Whitman’s poetic vision.”
The poem was first published without sections as the first of twelve untitled poems...
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| x The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda |
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The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda (Russian: Сказка о попе и о работнике его Балде, Skazka o pope i o rabotnike ego Balde) is a fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin wrote the tale on September 13, 1830 while staying at...
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| x The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish |
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The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish (Russian: Сказка о рыбаке и рыбке, Skazka o rybake i rybke) is a fairy tale in verse by Alexander Pushkin. Pushkin wrote the tale in autumn 1833 and it was first published in the literary magazine Biblioteka...
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| x The Man From Snowy River |
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"The Man from Snowy River" is a poem by Australian bush poet Banjo Paterson. It was first published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, on 26 April 1890.
The poem tells the story of a horseback pursuit to recapture the colt of a...
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| x Venus and Adonis |
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Epyllion |
Venus and Adonis is a poem by William Shakespeare, written in 1592–1593, with a plot based on passages from Ovid's Metamorphoses. It is a complex, kaleidoscopic work, using constantly shifting tone and perspective to present contrasting views of the...
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| x The Rape of Lucrece |
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Rhyme royal | Iambic pentameter |
The Rape of Lucrece (1594) is a narrative poem by William Shakespeare about the legendary Lucretia. In his previous narrative poem, Venus and Adonis (1593), Shakespeare had included a dedicatory letter to his patron, the Earl of Southampton, in...
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| x The Passionate Pilgrim |
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The Passionate Pilgrim (1599) is an anthology of 20 poems collected and published by William Jaggard that were attributed to "W. Shakespeare" on the title page, only five of which are accepted by present-day scholars as authentically Shakespearean....
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| x The Phoenix and the Turtle |
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The Phoenix and the Turtle is an allegorical poem about the death of ideal love by William Shakespeare. It is widely considered to be one of his most obscure works and has led to many conflicting interpretations. It has also been called "the first...
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| x A Lover's Complaint |
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Rhyme royal |
A Lover's Complaint is a narrative poem published as an appendix to the original edition of Shakespeare's sonnets. It is given the title 'A Lover's Complaint' in the book, which was published by Thomas Thorpe in 1609. Although published in a book of...
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| x The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, commonly known as Prufrock, is a poem by T. S. Eliot, begun in February 1910 and published in Chicago in June 1915. Described as a "drama of literary anguish," it presents a stream of consciousness in the form of...
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| x Ash Wednesday |
"Ash Wednesday" (sometimes "Ash-Wednesday") is the first long poem written by T. S. Eliot after his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism. Published in 1930 (see 1930 in poetry), this poem deals with the struggle that ensues when one who has lacked faith...
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| x The Waste Land |
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The Waste Land is a 434-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot published in 1922. It has been called "one of the most important poems of the 20th century." Despite the poem's obscurity—its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced...
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| x The Raven |
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Trochaic octameter |
"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a...
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| x Annabel Lee |
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Annabel Lee |
"Annabel Lee" is the last complete poem composed by American author Edgar Allan Poe. Like many of Poe's poems, it explores the theme of the death of a beautiful woman. The narrator, who fell in love with Annabel Lee when they were young, has a love...
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| x Une Charogne |
An important poem highlighting Baudelaire's beautifying things traditionally associated with ugliness. He uses oxymorons such as "superb carcass", and a horrifying vocabulary featuring flies, maggots.
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| x The Bells |
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"The Bells" is a heavily onomatopoeic poem by Edgar Allan Poe which was not published until after his death in 1849. It is perhaps best known for the diacopic use of the word "bells." The poem has four parts to it; each part becomes darker and...
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| x The Conqueror Worm |
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"The Conqueror Worm" is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe about human mortality and the inevitability of death. It was first published separately in Graham's Magazine in 1843, but quickly became associated with Poe's short story "Ligeia" after Poe added the...
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| x The Sleeper |
"The Sleeper" is a poem by American author, poet, literary critic, and editor Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
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| x The Valley of Unrest |
"The Valley of Unrest" is a poem by American author, poet, literary critic, and editor Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
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| x Ulalume |
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"Ulalume" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in 1847. Much like a few of Poe's other poems (such as "The Raven", "Annabel Lee", and "Lenore"), "Ulalume" focuses on the narrator's loss of a beautiful woman due to her death. Poe originally wrote the...
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| x Israfel |
"Israfel" is a poem by American author, poet, literary critic, and editor Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
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| x For Annie |
"For Annie" is a poem by American author, poet, literary critic, and editor Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
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| x Dream-Land |
"Dream-Land" is a poem by American author, poet, literary critic, and editor Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).
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| x A Dream |
"A Dream" is a poem by American author, poet, literary critic, and editor Edgar Allan Poe (1809-1849).The opening stanza of the poem is as follows: In visions of the dark night I have dreamed of joy departed- But a waking...
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| x Porphyria's Lover | Dramatic monologue |
"Porphyria's Lover" is a poem by Robert Browning and it was first published as "Porphyria" in the January 1836 issue of Monthly Repository. Browning later republished it in Dramatic Lyrics (1842) paired with "Johannes Agricola in Meditation" under...
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| x My Last Duchess | Dramatic monologue |
"My Last Duchess" is a poem by Robert Browning, frequently anthologized as an example of the dramatic monologue. It first appeared in 1842 in Browning's Dramatic Lyrics.
The poem is written in 28 rhymed couplets of iambic pentameter.
The poem is...
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| x Aeneid |
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Epic poetry | Dactylic hexameter |
The Aeneid ( /əˈniːɪd/; Latin: Aeneis [ajˈneːis]—the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aeneidos) is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who travelled to Italy, where he...
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| x Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan |
"Bryan, Bryan, Bryan, Bryan" is a 1919 poem by American poet Vachel Lindsay. It chronicles William Jennings Bryan's 1896 presidential campaign as seen through the eyes of an idealistic sixteen-year-old, who strongly supported the Democratic Party...
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| x Invictus |
"Invictus" is a short Victorian poem by the English poet William Ernest Henley (1849–1903).
At the age of 12, Henley contracted tuberculosis of the bone. A few years later, the disease progressed to his foot, and physicians announced that the only...
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| x Kubla Khan |
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Kubla Khan ( /ˌkʊblə ˈkɑːn/) is a poem made by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, completed in 1797 and published in 1816. According to Coleridge's Preface to Kubla Khan, the poem was composed one night after he experienced an opium influenced dream after...
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| x Catullus 29 |
Catullus 29 is a poem written by the Roman poet Gaius Valerius Catullus. It is one of Catullus' most infamous attacks on Julius Caesar and his chief engineer and alleged lover Mamurra. Here Mamurra is criticised as a social upstart who, through the...
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| x Sonnet 73 | Sonnet |
Sonnet 73, one of William Shakespeare's most famous sonnets, focuses upon the theme of old age, with each of the three quatrains encompassing a metaphor. The sonnet is pensive in tone, and although it is written to a young friend (See: Fair Youth),...
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| x Easter, 1916 |
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Easter, 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet's torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. The uprising was unsuccessful, and most of the Irish...
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| x The Brus |
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The Brus is a long narrative poem of just under 14,000 octosyllabic lines composed by John Barbour which gives a historic and chivalric account of the actions of Robert the Bruce and the Black Douglas in the Scottish Wars of Independence during a...
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| x Minyas |
Minyas (Greek: Μινυάς) was the title of an early Greek epic poem, probably dating to the 6th century BC, which is now lost and whose author is unknown. The very few fragments that survive (available in Greek in Davies' and Bernabé's editions, and in...
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| x The Worms at Heaven's Gate |
The Worms at Heaven's Gate is a poem from Wallace Stevens' first book of poetry, Harmonium (1923). It was first published in 1916 and is therefore in the public domain.
The title is probably an allusion to William Shakespeare's Sonnet 29 ("When in...
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| x Night of the Scorpion |
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"Night of the Scorpion" is a poem by Nissim Ezekiel.
It tells the story of a rural boy, who's mother was stung by a scorpion. The illiterate village folk try to curse the poison away and are blinded by their superstitions. The boy's father is a...
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| x The Orators |
The Orators: An English Study is a long poem in prose and verse written by W. H. Auden, first published in 1932. It is regarded as a major contribution to modernist poetry in English.
The Orators is divided into three main sections, framed by ...
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| x The Giaour |
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"The Giaour" is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1813 by T. Davison and the first in the series of his Oriental romances. "The Giaour" proved to be a great success when published, consolidating Byron's reputation critically and commercially....
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| x The Plot Against the Giant |
"The Plot Against the Giant" is a poem from Wallace Stevens's first book of poetry, Harmonium. It was first published in 1917, so it is in the public domain.
Stevens was called "the Giant" in his Harvard days, and he confessed in an interview a year...
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| x Adonais |
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Adonaïs: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. ( /ˌædɵˈneɪ.ɨs/), also spelled Adonaies, is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and...
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| x This Is Just To Say |
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"This Is Just To Say" (1934) is a famous imagist poem by William Carlos Williams.
I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox
and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast
Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold
Written as though...
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| x The Tyger |
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"The Tyger" is a poem by the English poet William Blake. It was published as part of his collection Songs of Experience in 1794 (see 1794 in poetry). It is one of Blake's best-known and most analyzed poems. The Cambridge Companion to William Blake ...
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| x My Heart and Lute |
"My Heart and Lute" is a song/poem by Thomas Moore.
In Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll, Alice recognizes the tune used in the song called Haddocks' Eyes sung by the White Knight.
The Art of Love
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| x Idylls of the King |
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Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892; Poet Laureate from 1850) which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and...
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| x Sonnet 29 | Sonnet |
Sonnet 29 is one of 154 sonnets written by the English playwright and poet William Shakespeare.
Sonnet 29 follows the same basic structure as Shakespeare's other sonnets, containing fourteen lines and written in iambic pentameter, and composed of...
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| x Sonnet 154 |
William Shakespeare's Sonnet 153 and Sonnet 154 are based upon a poem attributed to the Greek poet Marcianus Scholasticus. The poem describes how Cupid has his love brand stolen by nymphs. Sonnet 153 and Sonnet 154 are described as Anacreontic,...
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| x The Book of the Duchess |
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The Book of the Duchess, also known as The Deth of Blaunche is the earliest of Chaucer’s major poems, preceded only by his short poem, "An ABC," and possibly by his translation of The Romaunt of the Rose. Most sources put the date of composition...
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| x The New Colossus |
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"The New Colossus" is a sonnet by Emma Lazarus (1849–1887), written in 1883 and, in 1903, engraved on a bronze plaque and mounted inside the lower level of the pedestal of the Statue of Liberty.
This poem was written as a donation to an auction of...
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| x Ode to Joy |
"Ode to Joy" (German: "Ode an die Freude", first line: "Freude, schöner Götterfunken") is an ode written in 1785 by the German poet, playwright and historian Friedrich Schiller, enthusiastically celebrating the brotherhood and unity of all mankind....
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| x The House of Fame |
The House of Fame is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer, probably written between 1379 and 1380, making it one of his earlier works.
The House of Fame is over 2,000 lines long in three books and takes the form of a dream vision composed in octosyllabic...
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| x Parzival |
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Parzival is a major medieval German romance by the poet Wolfram von Eschenbach, in the Middle High German language. The poem, commonly dated to the first quarter of the 13th century, is itself largely based on Chrétien de Troyes’s Perceval, the...
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| x In Answer to "Banjo", and otherwise |
In Answer to "Banjo", and Otherwise is a poem by iconic Australian writer and poet Henry Lawson. It was first published in The Weekly Bulletin magazine on August 6 1892, and subsequently re-titled The City Bushman. It was the fourth poem in the...
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| x Casey at the Bat |
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"Casey at the Bat: A Ballad of the Republic Sung in the Year 1888" is a baseball poem written in 1888 by Ernest Thayer. First published in The San Francisco Examiner on June 3, 1888, it was later popularized by DeWolf Hopper in many vaudeville...
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| x Ulysses |
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"Ulysses" is a poem in blank verse by the Victorian poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809–1892), written in 1833 and published in 1842 in Tennyson's well-received second volume of poetry. An oft-quoted poem, it is popularly used to illustrate the...
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| x City Without Walls |
City Without Walls and other poems is a book by W. H. Auden, published in 1969.
The book contains Auden's shorter poems written from 1965 through 1968, together with his translations of the lyrics of Bertolt Brecht's Mother Courage, and a few poems...
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