Classical Poems
The authors listed on this page include some of the greatest poets of all time. Their names have a very special place in the history of the world - and within our hearts. They have taught us Beauty. They have taught us Truth. And their lessons, for each generation, begin anew.
To the best of our knowledge, no one holds a copyright on any of the poems included in this massive database. To the best of our knowledge, each of these Truths belong to World. To the People.
Our Classical Poetry section is designed for both pure enjoyment and for research. If you just want to enjoy some marvelous poetry, click on the "Poems" links for your favorite writer and start browsing. You won't be disappointed.
However, if you're here to learn more about a poet or poem, you'll also find plenty of detailed help available for your research. Resources include articles and papers housed at netpoets.com, as well as links to other useful web sites. We have resources for each poet, available below or on their individual pages, as well as for specific poems, which will be listed with the poem. Everything is extensively cross-referenced, making it easy to find those hard-to-find details.
| Classical Poet | Poems | Biography |
|---|---|---|
| Matthew Arnold | Poems (16) | Biography |
| William Barnes | Poems (5) | Biography |
| William Blake | Poems (53) | Biography |
| William Lisle Bowles | Poems (5) | Biography |
| Charlotte Bronte | Poems (21) | Biography |
| Emily Jane Bronte | Poems (26) | Biography |
| Rupert Brooke | Poems (12) | Biography |
| Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Poems (14) | Biography |
| Robert Browning | Poems (35) | Biography |
| Robert Burns | Poems (22) | Biography |
| Lord George Gordon Byron | Poems (24) | Biography |
| Thomas Carew | Poems (7) | Biography |
| Lewis Carroll | Poems (38) | Biography |
| John Clare | Poems (6) | Biography |
| Arthur Hugh Clough | Poems (4) | Biography |
| Samuel Taylor Coleridge | Poems (21) | Biography |
| William Collins | Poems (4) | Biography |
| Abraham Cowley | Poems (1) | Biography |
| William Cowper | Poems (8) | Biography |
| Richard Crashaw | Poems (1) | Biography |
| Emily Dickinson | Poems (20) | Biography |
| John Donne | Poems (57) | Biography |
| Ernest Christopher Dowson | Poems (6) | Biography |
| Michael Drayton | Poems (4) | Biography |
| William Drummond | Poems (6) | Biography |
| John Dryden | Poems (7) | Biography |
| Ralph Waldo Emerson | Poems (6) | Biography |
| Edward Fitzgerald | Poems (3) | Biography |
| John Fletcher | Poems (2) | Biography |
| Robert Frost | Poems (151) | Biography |
| Oliver Goldsmith | Poems (4) | Biography |
| Thomas Gray | Poems (9) | Biography |
| George Herbert | Poems (15) | Biography |
| Robert Herrick | Poems (13) | Biography |
| Gerard Manley Hopkins | Poems (16) | Biography |
| James Henry Leigh Hunt | Poems (2) | Biography |
| Benjamin Jonson | Poems (7) | Biography |
| John Keats | Poems (45) | Biography |
| Walter Savage Landor | Poems (5) | Biography |
| Edward Lear | Poems (119) | Biography |
| Henry Wadsworth Longfellow | Poems (54) | Biography |
| Richard Lovelace | Poems (7) | Biography |
| Christopher Marlowe | Poems (1) | Biography |
| Andrew Marvell | Poems (9) | Biography |
| Herman Melville | Poems (15) | Biography |
| John Milton | Poems (39) | Biography |
| William Morris | Poems (11) | Biography |
| Thomas Nashe | Poems (2) | Biography |
| Wilfred Owen | Poems (15) | Biography |
| Edgar Allan Poe | Poems (57) | Biography |
| Matthew Prior | Poems (2) | Biography |
| Sir Walter Raleigh | Poems (7) | Biography |
| Christina Georgina Rossetti | Poems (21) | Biography |
| Dante Gabriel Rossetti | Poems (17) | Biography |
| Sir Walter Scott | Poems (6) | Biography |
| Alan Seeger | Poems (2) | Biography |
| William Shakespeare | Poems (6) | Biography |
| Percy Bysshe Shelley | Poems (31) | Biography |
| Sir Philip Sidney | Poems (10) | Biography |
| Robert Southey | Poems (3) | Biography |
| Edmund Spenser | Poems (6) | Biography |
| Sir John Suckling | Poems (8) | Biography |
| Jonathan Swift | Poems (11) | Biography |
| Algernon Charles Swinburne | Poems (5) | Biography |
| Lord Alfred Tennyson | Poems (105) | Biography |
| Edward Thomas | Poems (10) | Biography |
| Henry David Thoreau | Poems (3) | Biography |
| Henry Vaughan | Poems (2) | Biography |
| Edmund Waller | Poems (3) | Biography |
| John Webster | Poems (1) | Biography |
| Walt Whitman | Poems (17) | Biography |
| Oscar Wilde | Poems (11) | Biography |
| John Wilmot | Poems (7) | Biography |
| William Wordsworth | Poems (46) | Biography |
| Sir Henry Wotton | Poems (2) | Biography |
| Sir Thomas Wyatt | Poems (7) | Biography |
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