Poem

"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 of the best-known...

The Tale of the Priest and of his Workman Balda (Russian: Сказка о попе и о его работнике Балде) is a 1830 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin. The poem tells about a lazy priest who was wandering around the market looking for a cheap worker. There he met Balda (Балда in...

The Tale of the Fisherman and the Fish (Russian: Сказка о рыбаке и рыбке) is an 1835 poem by Aleksandr Pushkin. The tale is about a fisherman who managed to catch a Golden Fish which promised to fulfill any wish of his in exchange for letting it go. Its theme is...

"The Man From Snowy River" is a poem by Australia bush poet Banjo Paterson. It was first published in The Bulletin, an Australian news magazine, in April 1890. The poem tells the story of a horseback pursuit to recapture the colt of a prizewinning racehorse that...

Venus and Adonis is one of Shakespeare's three longer poem. Venus and Adonis was entered into the Stationers' Register on April 18, 1593; the poem appeared later that year in a quarto edition, published and printed by Richard Field, a Stratford-upon-Avon man and a...

Shakespeare's sonnets, or simply The Sonnets, is a collection of poem in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. They were probably written over a period of several years. All 154 poems appeared in...

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 which he promised to...

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 edition survives only...

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 great published...

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 ababbcc), a metre...

The Hollow Men are an English sketch comedy group consisting of David Armand, Nick Tanner, Rupert Russell, and Sam Spedding. The Hollow Men is also the title of their TV show broadcast in the United States by Comedy Central. The show follows the kind of silliness from...

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is the poem 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 Prufrock, is one of the most anthologized 20th century poems in the English...

Ash-Wednesday (sometimes Ash Wednesday) is the first long poem written by T. S. Eliot after his 1927 conversion to Anglicanism. Published in 1930, this poem deals with the struggle that ensues when one who has lacked faith in the past strives to move towards God. ...

The Waste Land (1922) is a 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, its elegiac but intimidating...

"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 lover, tracing the...

"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 for her so strong...

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.

Four Quartets is the name given to four related poems by T. S. Eliot, collected and republished in book form in 1943. They had been published individually from 1935 to 1942. Their titles are Burnt Norton, East Coker, The Dry Salvages, and Little Gidding. Eliot...

"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 and darker as the poem...

"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 poem to a revised...

"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 wrote the poem as an...

"To Helen" is a poem by Edgar Allan Poe. It is about the ideal woman that can only exist by imagination. Poe originally wrote it about his friend's mother (her name is not Helen though). Poe uses an allusion to refer to Helen. Helen can refer to the Greek goddess of...