The Poem Index — Vol. I
Poems& their analyses
Every entry is a fully indexed poem — full text where the work is in the public domain, plus a summary, line-by-line gloss, themes, form, and meter. Sourced from Project Gutenberg, Wikidata, and Poets.org.
- Indexed poems
- ~2,800
- Cataloged poets
- 289
- Centuries spanned
- 30 (since 900 BCE)
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Baael's stone obscene: Human sacrifices were offered on the
by James Russell Lowell
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Baby-Bird
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Babylon Revisited
by Amiri Baraka
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Ballad of Another Ophelia
by D. H. Lawrence
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Ballad of Birmingham
by Dudley Randall
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Ballad of the Landlord
by Langston Hughes
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Ballad of Women I Love
by Eugene Field
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Bang!!
by Amy Lowell
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Banner and Pennant
by Walt Whitman
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Barabbas in Prison
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Bartimeus
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Bartolome
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Bavarian Gentians
by D. H. Lawrence
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Bayard Taylor
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 1957
Bayonet Charge
by Ted Hughes
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Beard and Baby
by Eugene Field
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Beat! Beat! Drums!
by Walt Whitman
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Beautiful Dreamer
by Stephen Foster
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Beaver Brook
by James Russell Lowell
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Becalmed
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Because I Could Not Stop for Death
by Emily Dickinson
- 1922
Beethoven in Central Park
by Alfred Noyes
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Before the Birth of One of Her Children
by Anne Bradstreet
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Before the Castle of Petrella
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 1993
Before You Were Mine
by Carol Ann Duffy
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Belisarius
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Bellingham
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Bells in the Rain
by Elinor Wylie
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Belshazzar
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Ben Apfelgarten
by Eugene Field
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Benedicite: An invocation of blessing. Imperative form of the
by James Russell Lowell
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Benvenuto
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Beowulf's Expedition to Heort
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Bermudas
by Andrew Marvell
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Beware!
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Bibliolatres
by James Russell Lowell
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Biglow
by James Russell Lowell
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Big Wind
by Theodore Roethke
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Bindo
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- 1915
Birches
by Robert Frost
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Birdofredom Sawin
by James Russell Lowell
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Birdofredum Sawin
by James Russell Lowell
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Bishop Sigurd at Salten Fiord
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Bivouac on a Mountain Side
by Walt Whitman
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Black Art
by Amiri Baraka
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Blackberrying
by Sylvia Plath
- 1966
Blackberry Picking
by Seamus Heaney
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Blessing the Cornfields
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Blind Bartimeus
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Bliss it: A rather violent use of the word, not recognized by
by James Russell Lowell