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
"Who does not know that dreadful gulf, where Niagara falls,"
"What should I say?"
"I abide and abide and better abide,"
"Blame not my lute, for he must sound"
"Divers doth use, as I have heard and know,"
"Alas, madam, for stealing of a kiss"
"Farewell, Love, and all thy laws forever,"
"Forget not yet the tried intent"
"Madam, withouten many words,"
"My galley charged with forgetfulness"
"THE LOVER COMPLAINETH THE UNKINDNESS OF HIS LOVE."
"Mine own John Poins, since ye delight to know"
"And wilt thou leave me thus!"
"THE ISLAND OF STATUES."
"A noiseless patient spider,"
"I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear;"
"IN cabin’d ships, at sea,"
"O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done,"
"When I heard the learn'd astronomer,"
"I"
"With husky-haughty lips, O sea!"
"What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?"
"I, too, saw God through mud,—"
"For works with similar titles, see Beauty."