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| x Song of Myself |
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"Song of Myself" is an epic poem by Walt Whitman that is included in his work Leaves of Grass.
The poem was first published without sections and appeared as the first of twelve untitled poems in the 1855 edition of Leaves of Grass. Today it is one...
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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 literary magazine Biblioteka dlya...
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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 26th 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 1592-93, 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 is an anthology of poems, published in 1599, which according to the title-page were "By W. Shakespeare".
The Passionate Pilgrim was published by William Jaggard, later the publisher of Shakespeare's First Folio. The first...
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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 usually attributed to William Shakespeare, although the poem's authorship is a matter of critical debate.
The poem consists of forty-seven seven-line stanzas written in the rhyme royal (with the rhyme scheme...
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| x The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock |
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is the 1915 poem (The first publication in Britain was in 1917 ) that marked the start of T. S. Eliot's career as one of the twentieth century's most influential poets. The poem, also referred to simply as...
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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 (1922) is a revolutionary, highly influential 434-line modernist poem by T. S. Eliot. Despite the alleged obscurity of the poem – its shifts between satire and prophecy, its abrupt and unannounced changes of speaker, location and time...
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| x The Raven |
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Trochaic octameter |
"The Raven" is a narrative poem by the American writer Edgar Allan Poe, first published in January 1845. It is noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught...
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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 Four Quartets |
Burnt Norton is the first poem of T. S. Eliot's Four Quartets. It was created while Eliot was working on his play Murder in the Cathedral and was first published in his Collected Poems 1909–1935 (1936). The poem's title refers to a town Eliot...
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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 repetition of the word "bells." The poem has four parts to it; each part becomes darker...
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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 untimely death. Poe originally...
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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 that 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 anthologised 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 (pronounced /əˈniːɪd/; in Latin Aeneis, pronounced [aeˈne.is] — the title is Greek in form: genitive case Aeneidos) is a Latin epic poem written by Virgil in the late 1st century BC (29–19 BC) that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a...
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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.
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| x Invictus |
Invictus is a short poem by the British poet William Ernest Henley. The title is Latin for "Invincible". It was first published in 1875.
At the age of 12, Henley became a victim of tuberculosis of the bone. In spite of this, in 1867 he successfully...
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| x Kubla Khan |
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"Kubla Khan; or, A Vision in a Dream: A Fragment" is a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge, which takes its title from the Mongol and Chinese emperor Kublai Khan of the Yuan Dynasty. Coleridge claimed he wrote the poem in the autumn of 1797 at a...
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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 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: Mr. W.H.), it is...
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| x Easter, 1916 |
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Easter, 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet's ambivalent 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 by John Barbour with a purpose partly historical, partly patriotic. It celebrates the praises of Robert the Bruce and Sir James Douglas, the flowers of Scottish chivalry, opening with a description of the state of...
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| x Minyas |
Minyas (Greek: Μινυάς) was the title of an early Greek epic poem, probably dating to the sixth 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...
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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 |
Night of the Scorpion is a poem by Nissim Ezekiel.
It tells the story of a time when Nissim was a child and his family lived in Bombay India. One day, his mother was stung by a scorpion, which then retreats behind a sack of rice. The poem describes...
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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 Royal Caledonian Curling Club |
The Royal Caledonian Curling Club (RCCC) is the mother club of the sport of curling, and the governing body of curling in Scotland. The RCCC was founded on 25 July 1838 in Edinburgh, and granted its royal charter by Queen Victoria in 1843, after she...
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| x Rhyming recipe |
A rhyming recipe is a recipe expressed in the form of a rhyming poem. Now mainly a curiosity, rhyming recipes were a common expedient for homemakers to memorize recipes in the late 19th and early 20th century.
As an example, here is a poem that,...
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| x The Giaour |
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The Giaour is a poem by Lord Byron first published in 1813 and the first in the series of his Oriental romances. It is also one of the earliest fictional works to touch upon the subject of vampires (see vampire fiction). The Giaour proved to be a...
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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 |
Adonaïs: An Elegy on the Death of John Keats, Author of Endymion, Hyperion, etc. (Adonaies) (/æd.oʊˈneɪ.ɪs/) is a pastoral elegy written by Percy Bysshe Shelley for John Keats in 1821, and widely regarded as one of Shelley's best and most well-known...
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| x Artorius |
Artorius was a Roman gens (gens Artoria) of obscure and contested etymology, though one suggested meaning is "plowman". Its members were apparently natives of Campania, and other branches appeared in Dalmatia, Africa, Gallia Narbonensis, 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.
Written as though it were a note left on a refrigerator, Williams' poem appears to the reader like a piece of found poetry. Metrically, the poem exhibits no regularity...
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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. It is one of Blake's best known and most analyzed poems. The Cambridge Companion to William Blake (2003) calls it "the...
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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.
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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. It's a member of the Fair Youth sequence, in which the poet expresses his love towards a young man.
Sonnet 29 by William Shakespeare begins with the...
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| x Sonnet 154 |
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, after the name of a Greek...
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| x The Book of the Duchess |
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The Book of the Duchess is a dream vision narrative poem by Geoffrey Chaucer.
The Book of the Duchess, also known as The Deth of Blaunche [sic] is the earliest of Chaucer’s major poems, preceded only by his short poem, "An ABC," and possibly by his...
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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 Statue of Liberty.
The poem was written as a donation to an auction of art and literary works conducted by...
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| x Ode to Joy |
"To Joy" (German: An die Freude, first line: "Freude, schöner Götterfunken", in English often called Ode to Joy) is an ode written in 1785 by the German poet, playwright and historian Friedrich Schiller. The poem celebrates the ideal of unity and...
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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 epic poem attributed to the poet Wolfram von Eschenbach, written in the Middle High German language. The poem is commonly dated circa the first quarter of the 13th century. The poem is, in part, an adaptation of...
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