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
- ~2,900
- Cataloged poets
- 287
- Centuries spanned
- 30 (since 900 BCE)
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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
- 1865
When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
by Walt Whitman
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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
- 1865
When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d
by Walt Whitman
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When Moses sent men to "spy out" the Promised Land, they reported
by James Russell Lowell
- 1816
When We Two Parted
by George Gordon Byron
- 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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Where the Mind Is Without Fear
by Rabindranath Tagore
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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
- 2005
Winter Swans
by Owen Sheers
- 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
- 2018
With Birds You're Never Lonely
by Raymond Antrobus
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With Brutus in St. Jo
by Eugene Field
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Without and Within
by James Russell Lowell
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Without avail: Was Sir Launfal's long quest entirely without
by James Russell Lowell
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With the Night
by Archibald Lampman
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With this passage read the last two stanzas of _Mr. Hosea Biglow
by James Russell Lowell
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With Two Spoons for Two Spoons
by Eugene Field
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Woods in Winter
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Woodstock Park
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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World Take Good Notice
by Walt Whitman
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Written for the Celebration of the Introduction of the Cochituate
by James Russell Lowell
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Written in a Child's Album
by James Russell Lowell
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Written in Aid of a Chime of Bells for Christ Church, Cambridge
by James Russell Lowell
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Written on Revisiting Brunswick in the Summer of 1875
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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_Written on the day that Mr. Leigh Hunt left Prison._
by John Keats