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649 free books about poetry, free to read online. Chapter 1 of any book is free, no account needed.

Laatste verzen

Laatste verzen

Guido Gezelle

Dit bundel is het laatste deel van Guido Gezelle’s poëzie‑verzameling, waarin hij naast gedichten, gebeden en…

The Waste Land

The Waste Land

T. S. Eliot

The work is a modernist collage of poetry and prose, presented as a single, sprawling composition that defies…

The Years Between

The Years Between

Rudyard Kipling

The work is a long‑form poem that reads like a series of rallying cries, memorials and philosophical asides…

Cover of The complete works of John Gower, volume 4: The Latin works

The complete works of John Gower, volume 4: The Latin works

John Gower

The volume presents a meticulous scholarly investigation of the life of John Gower, the 14th‑century poet,…

A Poetical Cook-Book

A Poetical Cook-Book

Maria J. Moss

A Poetical Cook‑Book is an 1864 hybrid of verse and kitchen manual, presented as a single, continuous work…

Catulli Carmina

Catulli Carmina

Catullus, Gaius Valerius; Ellis, Robinson

Hic liber est collectio carminum Gaii Valerii Catulli, poetæ Romani I saeculi BC, auctore Robinson Ellis qui…

The New Morning: Poems

The New Morning: Poems

Alfred Noyes

The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2

The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2

Jonathan Swift

The work is a long, allegorical poem that opens with a courtroom scene in which shepherds and nymphs bring a…

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Poems

Rainer Maria Rilke

The volume brings together the early and middle poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, tracing his evolution from the…

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Cover of Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse

Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse

R. D. Blackmore

Fringilla: Some Tales in Verse is a modest collection of poetry by Richard Doddridge Blackmore, first issued…

Stories in Verse

Stories in Verse

Henry Abbey

The work is a collection of poems by Henry Abbey, presented as a series of lyrical sketches that drift…

A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

Percy Bysshe Shelley

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays is a collection of philosophical and aesthetic…

A Legend of Old Persia and Other Poems

A Legend of Old Persia and Other Poems

A. B. S. Tennyson

A Legend of Old Persia and Other Poems is a single‑volume collection by A. B. S.

Cover of Cobwebs from a Library Corner

Cobwebs from a Library Corner

John Kendrick Bangs

John Kendrick Bangs’s “Cobwebs from a Library Corner” is a whimsical anthology of verse, prose, and parody…

The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems

The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius with some other poems

James Beattie

James Beattie’s “The Minstrel; or the Progress of Genius” is a single‑volume poetic work that opens with a…

Ships in Harbour

Ships in Harbour

David Morton

The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1

The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 1

Jonathan Swift

The volume presents a scholarly edition of Jonathan Swift’s poetry, assembled by W. E. B. May in 1910.

Cover of Poems

Poems

Mary Baker Eddy

This volume gathers the poetry of Mary Baker Eddy, a 19th‑century writer whose work first appeared in…

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

The Autocrat of the Breakfast-Table

Oliver Wendell Holmes

The work is a series of conversational essays that first appeared in the New‑England Magazine in the early…

Japanese Prints

Japanese Prints

John Gould Fletcher

The work is a scholarly essay that opens with a concise history of early Japanese verse, tracing its…

Prufrock and Other Observations

Prufrock and Other Observations

T. S. Eliot

This volume gathers the modernist poetry of T. S. Eliot, whose most famous work opens with the invitation…

Milton's Comus

Milton's Comus

John Milton

Milton’s Comus is a short lyrical drama, first performed as a courtly masque at Ludlow Castle in September…

The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes

The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore Collected by Himself with Explanatory Notes

Thomas Moore

The volume presents Sir Thomas Moore’s poetry as he himself assembled it, prefaced by a concise yet richly…