Poetry

Page Updated June 2022 .

An American Anthology  These 1740 selections by 573 authors represent a century of poetic culture.

Burns, Robert  557 works by the most lauded poet of Scotland with a glossary of over 1,900 words and phrases.

Complete Collection of Poems by Rudyard Kipling  Every poem Kipling ever wrote can be found on this site, along with a short biography.

Dickinson, Emily  Comprising 597 poems of the Belle of Amherst.

Frost, Robert  Frost’s poems are concerned with human tragedies and fears, his reaction to the complexities of life and his ultimate acceptance of his burdens.

If I Could Touch the Sky  An interactive poem. Click on the ear to have it read to you, or one word at a time.

Kipling: The White Man's Burden  An 1899 poem about the US conquest of the Philippines, but with a much wider significance. From Fordham University Internet History Sourcebook.

My Hiding Place  An interactive poem to read or have read to you.

Poetry 180  Welcome to Poetry 180. A Poem a day for American High School students. Poems can inspire and make us think about what it means to be a member of the human race.

Sandburg, Carl  Carl Sandburg celebrated his romance with America in three early literary collections.

Songs and Poems  Songs and poems arranged by topic.

Stevenson, Robert Louis  Two of Stevenson’s best-loved verse collections comprising 121 poems.

Telling Time Clocks  Songs and poems about telling time and clocks.

The Golden Treasury  Nearly 300 lyrical pieces and songs by such famous poets as Milton, Shakespeare, Shelley, Byron, Cowper, Burns and Spenser.

The New Poetry: An Anthology  A collection of 424 poems by 101 authors from one of the most influential publishers of the early twentieth century.

The Oxford Book of Ballads  This anthology of 176 works ranges from the epic ballads of the Middle Ages to lyrics familiar to this day.

The Oxford Book of English Mystical Verse  From Donne and Traherne to Whitman and Yeats, this unique anthology spans 5 centuries with 390 selections by 162 authors.

Whitman, Walt  Featuring “Leaves Of Grass.” In 1855 Whitman published Leaves of Grass (later known as Song of Myself) in which the author proclaims himself the symbolic representative of common people.

Yale Book of American Verse  Selections from the Pantheon of American poets, including Bryant, Emerson, Longfellow and Lowell.