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
- ~2,700
- Cataloged poets
- 261
- Centuries spanned
- 30 (since 900 BCE)
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Showing 50 of 63 poems · Letter: W- —
Waiting for the Barbarians
by C. P. Cavafy
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WALCOT.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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WALTER VON DER VOGELWEID
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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WAR.
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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WAR PICTURES
by Amy Lowell
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Was cried: The "bans" were cried, the announcement of the
by James Russell Lowell
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We Are Seven
by William Wordsworth
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WEARINESS
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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WEATHERCOCK.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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WEEK-NIGHT SERVICE
by D. H. Lawrence
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We Grow Accustomed to the Dark
by Emily Dickinson
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WENDELL PHILLIPS
by James Russell Lowell
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Wept with the passion, etc.: An article in the _Atlantic
by James Russell Lowell
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We Sinais climb, etc.: Mount Sinai was the mountain in Arabia on
by James Russell Lowell
- 1896
We Wear the Mask
by Paul Laurence Dunbarlyric
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WHARTON.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Whatever You Say Say Nothing
by Seamus Heaney
- 1922
WHAT GRANDFATHER SAID
by Alfred Noyes
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WHAT MR. ROBINSON THINKS
by James Russell Lowell
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WHAT RABBI JEHOSHA SAID
by James Russell Lowell
- 1922
WHAT THE THUNDER SAID
by T. S. Eliot
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When I Consider How My Light Is Spent
by John Milton
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When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be
by John Keats
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WHEN I WAS A BOY
by Eugene Field
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When I Was One and Twenty
by A. E. Housman
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When Moses sent men to "spy out" the Promised Land, they reported
by James Russell Lowell
- 1893
When You Are Old
by W. B. Yeatslyric
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WHEREIN IT IS SHOWN THAT THE MOST ARDENT SPIRITS ARE MORE
by James Russell Lowell
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WHO HAD SENT ME A SEVEN-POUND TROUT
by James Russell Lowell
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Who now shall sneer? In a letter to Mr. J.B. Thayer, who had
by James Russell Lowell
- 1925
WHY HAVE YOU SOUGHT
by H. D.
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Why I Am Not a Painter
by Frank O'Hara
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Wild Geese
by Mary Oliver
- 1923
Wild Grapes
by Robert Frost
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Wild Nights Wild Nights
by Emily Dickinson
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WILL EVER THE DEAR DAYS COME BACK AGAIN?
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Windflowers
by Algernon Charles Swinburne
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WINFREDA
by Eugene Field
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Winter-palace of ice: An allusion, apparently, to the
by James Russell Lowell
- 1922
WIRELESS
by Alfred Noyes
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WISDOM.
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Witch Burning
by Sylvia Plath
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WITH A COPY OF AUCASSIN AND NICOLETE
by James Russell Lowell
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WITH A GUITAR, TO JANE.
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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WITH AN ARMCHAIR
by James Russell Lowell
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WITH A PAIR OF GLOVES LOST IN A WAGER
by James Russell Lowell
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WITH A PRESSED FLOWER
by James Russell Lowell
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WITH A SEASHELL
by James Russell Lowell
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WITH BRUTUS IN ST. JO
by Eugene Field
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WITHOUT AND WITHIN
by James Russell Lowell