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
"Before there was in Egypt any sound"
""Be calm? And was I frantic?"
"Up the old hill to the old house again,"
"Never was there a man much uglier"
"A CHILD'S THOUGHT OF GOD."
"HIRAM POWERS' GREEK SLAVE."
"How do I love thee? Let me count the ways."
"He was, and is not! Graecia's trembling shore,"
""Yes" I answered you last night;"
"THE RUNAWAY SLAVE"
"I step across the mystic border-land,"
"::I step across the mystic border-land,"
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"The Sunbeam loved the Moonbeam,"
"A BIRD is of all beings"
"A BOOK."
"A CHARM invests a face"
"A CLOCK stopped—not the mantel's;"
"Ample make this bed."
"A DAY."
"A DEW sufficed itself"
"A feather from the whippoorwill"
"A FUZZY fellow without feet"
"III"