The Collection
Browse by feeling
Poetry meets you where you are. Start with a mood, or explore them all.
Start with a feeling
In Stillness
"I dwell in Possibility — A fairer House than Prose"
The Marvelous
"Do I dare disturb the universe?"
What Remains
"After great pain, a formal feeling comes"
Bright Mornings
"I celebrate myself, and sing myself"
The Distance
"The woods are lovely, dark and deep"
Against the Dying
"Rage, rage against the dying of the light"
All Poems
"GROWTH of Man like growth"
"Have you got a brook in your little heart,"
"HE put the belt around my life,—"
"HE touched me, so I live to know"
"HAD I presumed to hope."
"HEART not so heavy as mine,"
"HEAVEN has different signs to me;"
"HEAVEN is so far of the mind"
"HIGH from the earth I heard a bird;"
"HOPE."
"HOW dare the robins sing,"
"HOW many flowers fail in wood,"
"HOW noteless men and"
"I HAD been hungry all the years;"
"I am ashamed, I hide—"
"I BRING an unaccustomed wine"
"I CAME to buy a smile to-day"
"I CANNOT be ashamed"
"I died for beauty, but was scarce"
"I CANNOT dance upon my toes,"
"I DWELL in Possibility"
"I FELT a funeral in my brain,"
"I GAINED it so,"
"I FOUND the phrase to every thought"