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73 reading editions of public-domain poems, laid out as books you can flip through.

📚 Collections

Themed anthologies and classic translated collections.

POETRY COLLECTION The CrescentMoon The Crescent Moon26 poems POETRY COLLECTION The Gardener The Gardener (selections)19 poems POETRY COLLECTION Stray Birds Stray Birds (1–80)8 poems POETRY COLLECTION The Madman: Parablesand Poems The Madman: Parables and Poems15 poems POETRY COLLECTION A Lute of Jade A Lute of Jade28 poems POETRY COLLECTION ClassicalPoems of Japan Classical Poems of Japan45 poems POETRY COLLECTION Voices of the HarlemRenaissance Voices of the Harlem Renaissance38 poems POETRY COLLECTION Poems of theGreat War Poems of the Great War19 poems POETRY COLLECTION Mystic Poetsof the East Mystic Poets of the East17 poems POETRY COLLECTION The Psalms The Psalms10 poems POETRY COLLECTION The Dhammapada:Selected Chapters The Dhammapada: Selected Chapters4 poems POETRY COLLECTION Poems forBedtime Poems for Bedtime16 poems POETRY COLLECTION Nonsense andLaughter Nonsense and Laughter15 poems POETRY COLLECTION Poems of Nature andthe Seasons Poems of Nature and the Seasons16 poems POETRY COLLECTION Love Poems Love Poems15 poems

🪶 Selected poems, poet by poet

SELECTED POEMS WilliamShakespeare 1564–1616 William Shakespeare8 poems SELECTED POEMS Ben Jonson 1572–1637 Ben Jonson2 poems SELECTED POEMS John Donne 1572–1631 John Donne5 poems SELECTED POEMS George Herbert 1593–1633 George Herbert4 poems SELECTED POEMS John Milton 1608–1674 John Milton2 poems SELECTED POEMS Robert Burns 1759–1796 Robert Burns4 poems SELECTED POEMS William Blake 1757–1827 William Blake8 poems SELECTED POEMS WilliamWordsworth 1770–1850 William Wordsworth6 poems SELECTED POEMS Samuel TaylorColeridge 1772–1834 Samuel Taylor Coleridge3 poems SELECTED POEMS Lord Byron 1788–1824 Lord Byron3 poems SELECTED POEMS Percy ByssheShelley 1792–1822 Percy Bysshe Shelley4 poems SELECTED POEMS John Keats 1795–1821 John Keats6 poems SELECTED POEMS Alfred, LordTennyson 1809–1892 Alfred, Lord Tennyson6 poems SELECTED POEMS RobertBrowning 1812–1889 Robert Browning4 poems SELECTED POEMS Emily Brontë 1818–1848 Emily Brontë3 poems SELECTED POEMS Gerard ManleyHopkins 1844–1889 Gerard Manley Hopkins5 poems SELECTED POEMS Oscar Wilde 1854–1900 Oscar Wilde2 poems SELECTED POEMS RudyardKipling 1865–1936 Rudyard Kipling3 poems SELECTED POEMS W. B. Yeats 1865–1939 W. B. Yeats7 poems SELECTED POEMS Wilfred Owen 1893–1918 Wilfred Owen2 poems SELECTED POEMS Ralph WaldoEmerson 1803–1882 Ralph Waldo Emerson3 poems SELECTED POEMS HenryWadsworthLongfellow 1807–1882 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow5 poems SELECTED POEMS Edgar AllanPoe 1809–1849 Edgar Allan Poe4 poems SELECTED POEMS Walt Whitman 1819–1892 Walt Whitman6 poems SELECTED POEMS EmilyDickinson 1830–1886 Emily Dickinson8 poems SELECTED POEMS Robert Frost 1874–1963 Robert Frost7 poems SELECTED POEMS Edna St.Vincent Millay 1892–1950 Edna St. Vincent Millay5 poems SELECTED POEMS WallaceStevens 1879–1955 Wallace Stevens4 poems SELECTED POEMS William CarlosWilliams 1883–1963 William Carlos Williams2 poems SELECTED POEMS LangstonHughes 1901–1967 Langston Hughes8 poems SELECTED POEMS RabindranathTagore 1861–1941 Rabindranath Tagore4 poems SELECTED POEMS Sarojini Naidu 1879–1949 Sarojini Naidu19 poems SELECTED POEMS Rumi 1207–1273 Rumi40 poems SELECTED POEMS Hafiz c. 1315–c. 1390 Hafiz13 poems SELECTED POEMS Kabir c. 1440–c. 1518 Kabir28 poems SELECTED POEMS Li Po 701–762 Li Po (Li Bai)19 poems SELECTED POEMS Tu Fu 712–770 Tu Fu (Du Fu)7 poems SELECTED POEMS Wang Wei 699–759 Wang Wei2 poems SELECTED POEMS Robert LouisStevenson 1850–1894 Robert Louis Stevenson8 poems SELECTED POEMS Edward Lear 1812–1888 Edward Lear4 poems SELECTED POEMS Lewis Carroll 1832–1898 Lewis Carroll4 poems SELECTED POEMS ChristinaRossetti 1830–1894 Christina Rossetti4 poems SELECTED POEMS Eugene Field 1850–1895 Eugene Field8 poems SELECTED POEMS Walter de laMare 1873–1956 Walter de la Mare16 poems SELECTED POEMS James WhitcombRiley 1849–1916 James Whitcomb Riley5 poems SELECTED POEMS A. A. Milne 1882–1956 A. A. Milne16 poems SELECTED POEMS Sappho c. 630 BC–c. 570 BC Sappho19 poems SELECTED POEMS A. E. Housman 1859–1936 A. E. Housman11 poems SELECTED POEMS Sara Teasdale 1884–1933 Sara Teasdale22 poems SELECTED POEMS Paul LaurenceDunbar 1872–1906 Paul Laurence Dunbar20 poems SELECTED POEMS Claude McKay 1889–1948 Claude McKay17 poems SELECTED POEMS Countee Cullen 1903–1946 Countee Cullen3 poems SELECTED POEMS Jean Toomer 1894–1967 Jean Toomer5 poems SELECTED POEMS James WeldonJohnson 1871–1938 James Weldon Johnson2 poems SELECTED POEMS GeorgiaDouglasJohnson 1880–1966 Georgia Douglas Johnson3 poems SELECTED POEMS John McCrae 1872–1918 John McCrae8 poems SELECTED POEMS Rupert Brooke 1887–1915 Rupert Brooke12 poems SELECTED POEMS SiegfriedSassoon 1886–1967 Siegfried Sassoon13 poems

About these books

Every poem and translation in these books is in the public domain in the United States. Most come from the Project Gutenberg editions credited on each book page. The books are reading editions and are not Pagine Originals.

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