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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Showing 50 of 84 poems · Letter: L- —
La Belle Dame Sans Merci
by John Keats
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Lachesis
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Lady Button-Eyes
by Eugene Field
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Lady Lazarus
by Sylvia Plath
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Lady Wentworth
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Lake of Como
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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L'Allegro
by John Milton
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L'Amant Volage
by Sappho
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Lament
by Dylan Thomas
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
by William Carlos Williams
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La Rose
by Sappho
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Last Night
by Sharon Olds
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Last Poems
by James Russell Lowell
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Last Words to Miriam
by D. H. Lawrence
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La Tombe De Timas
by Sappho
- 1910
Laugh and Be Merry
by John Masefield
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Laus Veneris
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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Law of Life
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Lays of Ancient Rome
by Thomas Babington Macaulay
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Leaves of Grass
by Walt Whitman
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Le Bonheur Dans La Richesse
by Sappho
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Lechlade, Gloucestershire
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Lectori Benevolo S
by James Russell Lowell
- 1921
Leda
by H. D.
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L' Envoi
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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L'Envoi
by James Russell Lowell
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Let America Be America Again
by Langston Hughes
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Letter from Boston
by James Russell Lowell
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Letter from the Reverend Homer Wilbur, M.a., Enclosing the Epistle
by James Russell Lowell
- 1995
Letters from Yorkshire
by Maura Dooley
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Letter to Maria Gisborne
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Liaison
by D. H. Lawrence
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Liber I
by James Russell Lowell
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Liberty
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Life and Death
by Christina Rossetti
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Life and Nature
by Archibald Lampman
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Life of Keats
by John Keats
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Life of Lowell
by James Russell Lowell
- 2020
Like an Heiress
by Grace Nichols
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Like an outpost of winter: The cold, gloomy castle stands in
by James Russell Lowell
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Lines
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
by William Wordsworth
- 1922
Lines for a Sun-Dial
by Alfred Noyes
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Lines to a Critic
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Lines to a Reviewer
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Lines Written During the Castlereagh Administration
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Lines Written in Early Spring
by William Wordsworth
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Lines Written in the Bay of Lerici
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Lines Written in the Vale of Chamouni
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Lines Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon
by Percy Bysshe Shelley