Free Poetry Books

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• A Defence of Poesie and Poems — Philip Sidney
• A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• A Hundred and Seventy Chinese Poems — Unknown
• A Shropshire Lad — A. E. (Alfred Edward) Housman
• An Essay on Criticism — Alexander Pope
• An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires — Alexander Pope
• An Old Babylonian Version of the Gilgamesh Epic — Morris Jastrow
• Aristotle on the art of poetry — Aristotle
• Beowulf — Unknown
• Beowulf: An Introduction to the Study of the Poem with a Discussion of the Stories of Offa and Finn — R. W. (Raymond Wilson) Chambers
• Biographia Literaria — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Cane — Jean Toomer
• Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales — Geoffrey Chaucer
• Chaucer's Works, Volume 6 — Introduction, Glossary, and Indexes — Geoffrey Chaucer
• Childe Harold's Pilgrimage — George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
• Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories: The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1 — Unknown
• Cowboy songs, and other frontier ballads — Unknown
• Dhammapada, a Collection of Verses; Being One of the Canonical Books of the Buddhists — Unknown
• Divine Comedy, Cary's Translation, Complete — Dante Alighieri
• Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell — Dante Alighieri
• Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Purgatory — Dante Alighieri
• Don Juan — George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron
• Egyptian Literature: Comprising Egyptian tales, hymns, litanies, invocations, the Book of the Dead, and cuneiform writings — Unknown
• Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
• Fifteen sonnets of Petrarch — Francesco Petrarca
• Gitanjali — Rabindranath Tagore
• Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica — Hesiod
• I. Beówulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem. II. The fight at Finnsburh: a fragment. — Unknown
• I. Bēowulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem. II. The fight at Finnsburh: a fragment. — Unknown
• Imaginary Conversations and Poems: A Selection — Walter Savage Landor
• Kalevala : the Epic Poem of Finland — Complete — Unknown
• Keats: Poems Published in 1820 — John Keats
• Lamia — John Keats
• Language of Flowers — Kate Greenaway
• Lays of Ancient Rome — Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
• Leaves of Grass — Walt Whitman
• Life Without and Life Within; or, Reviews, Narratives, Essays, and Poems. — Margaret Fuller
• Lyrical Ballads, With a Few Other Poems (1798) — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field — Walter Scott
• Mother Goose's Nursery Rhymes: A Collection of Alphabets, Rhymes, Tales, and Jingles — Unknown
• Nonsense Books — Edward Lear
• Now we are six — A. A. (Alan Alexander) Milne
• On the Nature of Things — Titus Lucretius Carus
• Pan Tadeusz; or, The last foray in Lithuania: a story of life among Polish gentlefolk in the years 1811 and 1812 — Adam Mickiewicz
• Paradise Lost — John Milton
• Poems — William Blake
• Poems and Songs of Robert Burns — Robert Burns
• Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete — Emily Dickinson
• Poems Every Child Should Know: The What-Every-Child-Should-Know-Library — Unknown
• Poems of American History — Unknown
• Poems on various subjects, religious and moral — Phillis Wheatley
• Poems with Power to Strengthen the Soul — Unknown
• Poems, with The Ballad of Reading Gaol — Oscar Wilde
• Poems: Household Edition — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold — Matthew Arnold
• Robin Hood: A collection of all the ancient poems, songs, and ballads, now extant, relative to that celebrated English outlaw. To which are prefixed historical anecdotes of his life. — Unknown
• Selected Poems — Robert Frost
• Shakespeare's Sonnets — William Shakespeare
• Songs and rhymes of a lead miner — Thomas Grierson Gracie
• Songs of Innocence and of Experience — William Blake
• Spenser's Faerie Queene, Vol. 1 (of 2) : $b Books I-III — Edmund Spenser
• Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I — Edmund Spenser
• Spoon River Anthology — Edgar Lee Masters
• Stray Birds — Rabindranath Tagore
• Studies on Homer and the Homeric Age, Vol. 3 of 3: I. Agorè: Polities of the Homeric Age. II. Ilios: Trojans and Greeks Compared. III. Thalassa: The Outer Geography. IV. Aoidos: Some Points of the Poetry of Homer. — W. E. (William Ewart) Gladstone
• Tender Buttons: Objects—Food—Rooms — Gertrude Stein
• The Aeneid — Virgil
• The Aeneid of Virgil — Virgil
• The Angel in the House — Coventry Patmore
• The Argonautica — Rhodius Apollonius
• The Astronomy of Milton's 'Paradise Lost' — Thomas Nathaniel Orchard
• The Authoress of the Odyssey: Where and when she wrote, who she was, the use she made of the Iliad, and how the poem grew under her hands — Samuel Butler
• The Ballad of the White Horse — G. K. (Gilbert Keith) Chesterton
• The Bruce — John Barbour
• The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems — Geoffrey Chaucer
• The Complete Poetic and Dramatic Works of Robert Browning: Cambridge Edition — Robert Browning
• The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
• The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Complete — Percy Bysshe Shelley
• The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 and 2 — Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The complete works of John Gower, volume 2 : $b The English works — John Gower
• The complete works of John Gower, volume 3 : $b The English works — John Gower
• The complete works of John Gower, volume 4 : $b The Latin works — John Gower
• The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence.: With a New Life of the Poet, and Notices, Critical and Biographical by Allan Cunningham — Robert Burns
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare — William Shakespeare
• The Divine Comedy by Dante, Illustrated, Purgatory, Complete — Dante Alighieri
• The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno — Dante Alighieri
• The Early Poems of Alfred Lord Tennyson — Alfred Tennyson, Baron Tennyson
• The Elder Eddas of Saemund Sigfusson; and the Younger Eddas of Snorre Sturleson — Snorri Sturluson
• The Epic of Gilgamish: A Fragment of the Gilgamish Legend in Old-Babylonian Cuneiform — Stephen Langdon
• The flower and the leaf — Unknown
• The Flowers of Evil — Charles Baudelaire
• The gardener — Rabindranath Tagore
• The Georgics — Virgil
• The Hesperides & Noble Numbers: Vol. 1 and 2 — Robert Herrick
• The Home Book of Verse — Volume 1 — Burton Egbert Stevenson
• The Home Book of Verse — Volume 3 — Burton Egbert Stevenson
• The Iliad of Homer: Translated into English Blank Verse by William Cowper — Homer
• The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4: Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 — Unknown
• The Marriage of Heaven and Hell — William Blake
• The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II — Ovid
• The New Life (La Vita Nuova) — Dante Alighieri
• The Nibelungenlied: Translated into Rhymed English Verse in the Metre of the Original — Unknown
• The Nursery Rhyme Book — Unknown
• The Odysseys of Homer, together with the shorter poems — Homer
• The Oxford Book of Ballads — Unknown
• The Oxford Book of English Verse, 1250-1900 — Unknown
• The Poems of Felicia Hemans — Mrs. Hemans
• The Poems of John Donne, Volume 1 (of 2): Edited from the Old Editions and Numerous Manuscripts — John Donne
• The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2 — Jonathan Swift
• The poetic Edda : $b Translated from the Icelandic with an introduction and notes — Unknown
• The Poetical Works of John Milton — John Milton
• The Poetical Works of John Skelton, Volume 1 (of 2) — John Skelton
• The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 1 (of 8) — William Wordsworth
• The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 2 (of 8) — William Wordsworth
• The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 3 (of 8) — William Wordsworth
• The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 7 (of 8) — William Wordsworth
• The Poetics of Aristotle — Aristotle
• The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems — Alexander Pope
• The Real Mother Goose — Unknown
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner — Samuel Taylor Coleridge