# Poetry Connection

> An archive of poetry from around the world, online since 2003: 8,655 poems by 196 poets.

Each poet has a page with a biography and their poems. Each poem has its own page with the full text, its exact line breaks and spacing kept.

## Main pages

- [Poets](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/): every poet in the archive, A to Z
- [About](https://poetryconnection.net/about/)

## Poets

- [Sonja Akesson](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/sonja-akesson/): 1926–1977, 1 poem
- [Anna Akhmatova](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/anna-akhmatova/): 1889–1966, 27 poems
- [Dante Alighieri](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/dante-alighieri/): 1265–1321, 10 poems
- [Yehuda Amichai](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/yehuda-amichai/): 1924–2000, 38 poems
- [Kingsley Amis](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/kingsley-amis/): 1922–1995, 1 poem
- [A.R. Ammons](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/a-r-ammons/): 1926–2001, 26 poems
- [Jon Anderson](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/jon-anderson/): 1940–2007, 6 poems
- [Guillaume Apollinaire](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/guillaume-apollinaire/): 1880–1918, 7 poems
- [Matthew Arnold](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/matthew-arnold/): 1822–1888, 46 poems
- [Hans Arp](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/hans-arp/): 1886–1966, 1 poem
- [Margaret Atwood](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/margaret-atwood/): Born 1939, 28 poems
- [W. H. Auden](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/w-h-auden/): 1907–1973, 75 poems
- [Ingeborg Bachmann](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/ingeborg-bachmann/): 1926–1973, 3 poems
- [Christianne Balk](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/christianne-balk/): Born 1953, 5 poems
- [William Barnes](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/william-barnes/): 1801–1886, 12 poems
- [Matsuo Basho](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/matsuo-basho/): 1644–1694, 39 poems
- [Charles Baudelaire](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/charles-baudelaire/): 1821–1867, 45 poems
- [Hilaire Belloc](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/hilaire-belloc/): 1870–1953, 61 poems
- [John Betjeman](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/john-betjeman/): 1906–1984, 48 poems
- [Elizabeth Bishop](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/elizabeth-bishop/): 1911–1979, 65 poems
- [Thomas Blackburn](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/thomas-blackburn/): 1916–1977, 3 poems
- [William Blake](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/william-blake/): 1757–1827, 131 poems
- [Eavan Boland](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/eavan-boland/): 1944–2020, 9 poems
- [Yves Bonnefoy](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/yves-bonnefoy/): 1923–2016, 11 poems
- [Jorge Luis Borges](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/jorge-luis-borges/): 1899–1986, 14 poems
- [Edgar Bowers](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/edgar-bowers/): 1924–2000, 5 poems
- [William Lisle Bowles](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/william-lisle-bowles/): 1762–1850, 29 poems
- [George Bradley](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/george-bradley/): Born 1953, 1 poem
- [Bertolt Brecht](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/bertolt-brecht/): 1898–1956, 28 poems
- [Andre Breton](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/andre-breton/): 1896–1966, 4 poems
- [Edwin Brock](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/edwin-brock/): 1927–1997, 1 poem
- [Joseph Brodsky](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/joseph-brodsky/): 1940–1996, 18 poems
- [Charlotte Bronte](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/charlotte-bronte/): 1816–1855, 22 poems
- [Emily Bronte](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/emily-bronte/): 1818–1848, 55 poems
- [Rupert Brooke](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/rupert-brooke/): 1887–1915, 102 poems
- [T. E. Brown](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/sir-thomas-brown/): 1830–1897, 13 poems
- [Elizabeth Barrett Browning](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/elizabeth-barrett-browning/): 1806–1861, 110 poems
- [Robert Browning](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/robert-browning/): 1812–1889, 110 poems
- [Robert Burns](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/robert-burns/): 1759–1796, 577 poems
- [John Burnside](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/john-burnside/): 1955–2024, 4 poems
- [Yosa Buson](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/yosa-buson/): 1716–1784, 30 poems
- [Lord Byron](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/lord-byron/): 1788–1824, 86 poems
- [Thomas Carew](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/thomas-carew/): 1595–1640, 34 poems
- [Lewis Carroll](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/lewis-carroll/): 1832–1898, 73 poems
- [Constantine P. Cavafy](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/constantine-p-cavafy/): 1863–1933, 65 poems
- [Paul Celan](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/paul-celan/): 1920–1970, 9 poems
- [Geoffrey Chaucer](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/geoffrey-chaucer/): 1343–1400, 14 poems
- [Andree Chedid](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/andree-chedid/): 1920–2011, 4 poems
- [Peter Cherches](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/peter-cherches/): Born 1956, 2 poems
- [G.K. Chesterton](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/g-k-chesterton/): 1874–1936, 61 poems
- [John Clare](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/john-clare/): 1793–1864, 34 poems
- [Austin Clarke](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/austin-clarke/): 1896–1974, 3 poems
- [Arthur Hugh Clough](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/arthur-hugh-clough/): 1819–1861, 17 poems
- [Jean Cocteau](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/jean-cocteau/): 1889–1963, 1 poem
- [Leonard Cohen](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/leonard-cohen/): 1934–2016, 15 poems
- [Samuel Coleridge](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/samuel-coleridge/): 1772–1834, 80 poems
- [William Collins](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/william-collins/): 1721–1759, 5 poems
- [Abraham Cowley](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/abraham-cowley/): 1618–1667, 1 poem
- [William Cowper](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/william-cowper/): 1731–1800, 87 poems
- [Richard Crashaw](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/richard-crashaw/): 1613–1649, 20 poems
- [Andrew Crumey](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/andrew-crumey/): Born 1961, 1 poem
- [Roald Dahl](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/roald-dahl/): 1916–1990, 5 poems
- [Mahmoud Darwish](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/mahmoud-darwish/): 1941–2008, 8 poems
- [Regina Derieva](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/regina-derieva/): 1949–2013, 9 poems
- [Michael Donaghy](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/michael-donaghy/): 1954–2004, 1 poem
- [John Donne](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/john-donne/): 1572–1631, 70 poems
- [Keith Douglas](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/keith-douglas/): 1920–1944, 5 poems
- [Ernest Dowson](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/ernest-dowson/): 1867–1900, 14 poems
- [Michael Drayton](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/michael-drayton/): 1563–1631, 80 poems
- [William Drummond](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/william-drummond/): 1585–1649, 6 poems
- [John Dryden](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/john-dryden/): 1631–1700, 25 poems
- [Carol Ann Duffy](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/carol-ann-duffy/): Born 1955, 4 poems
- [Helen Dunmore](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/helen-dunmore/): 1952–2017, 1 poem
- [Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/joseph-freiherr-von-eichendorff/): 1788–1857, 1 poem
- [Edward Fitzgerald](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/edward-fitzgerald/): 1809–1883, 4 poems
- [Thomas Flatman](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/thomas-flatman/): 1637–1688, 3 poems
- [John Fletcher](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/john-fletcher/): 1579–1625, 14 poems
- [Johann Wolfgang von Goethe](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/johann-wolfgang-von-goethe/): 1749–1832, 284 poems
- [Oliver Goldsmith](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/oliver-goldsmith/): 1730–1774, 4 poems
- [Robert Graves](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/robert-graves/): 1895–1985, 74 poems
- [Thomas Gray](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/thomas-gray/): 1716–1771, 11 poems
- [Eamon Grennan](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/eamon-grennan/): Born 1941, 5 poems
- [Rafael Guillen](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/rafael-guillen/): 1933–2023, 3 poems
- [Thom Gunn](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/thom-gunn/): 1929–2004, 3 poems
- [Thomas Hardy](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/thomas-hardy/): 1840–1928, 217 poems
- [Tony Harrison](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/tony-harrison/): 1937–2025, 8 poems
- [Seamus Heaney](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/seamus-heaney/): 1939–2013, 30 poems
- [William Ernest Henley](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/william-ernest-henley/): 1849–1903, 17 poems
- [George Herbert](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/george-herbert/): 1593–1633, 79 poems
- [Robert Herrick](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/robert-herrick/): 1591–1674, 281 poems
- [Hermann Hesse](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/hermann-hesse/): 1877–1962, 10 poems
- [Nazim Hikmet](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/nazim-hikmet/): 1901–1963, 21 poems
- [Geoffrey Hill](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/geoffrey-hill/): 1932–2016, 7 poems
- [Homer](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/homer/): 750 BC–750 BC, 48 poems
- [Gerard Manley Hopkins](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/gerard-manley-hopkins/): 1844–1889, 84 poems
- [A.E. Housman](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/a-e-housman/): 1859–1936, 81 poems
- [Peter Huchel](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/peter-huchel/): 1903–1981, 4 poems
- [Ted Hughes](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/ted-hughes/): 1930–1998, 24 poems
- [James Henry Leigh Hunt](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/james-henry-leigh-hunt/): 1784–1859, 24 poems
- [Ho Xuan Huong](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/ho-xuan-huong/): 1772–1822, 1 poem
- [Kobayashi Issa](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/kobayashi-issa/): 1763–1828, 50 poems
- [Elizabeth Jennings](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/elizabeth-jennings/): 1926–2001, 10 poems
- [Ben Jonson](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/ben-jonson/): 1572–1637, 41 poems
- [Patrick Kavanagh](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/patrick-kavanagh/): 1904–1967, 9 poems
- [John Keats](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/john-keats/): 1795–1821, 82 poems
- [Rudyard Kipling](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/rudyard-kipling/): 1865–1936, 5 poems
- [Walter Savage Landor](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/walter-savage-landor/): 1775–1864, 52 poems
- [Jiri Mordecai Langer](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/jiri-mordecai-langer/): 1894–1943, 1 poem
- [Philip Larkin](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/philip-larkin/): 1922–1985, 95 poems
- [D.H. Lawrence](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/d-h-lawrence/): 1885–1930, 109 poems
- [Henry Lawson](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/henry-lawson/): 1867–1922, 122 poems
- [Edward Lear](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/edward-lear/): 1812–1888, 19 poems
- [Federico Garcia Lorca](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/federico-garcia-lorca/): 1898–1936, 32 poems
- [Richard Lovelace](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/richard-lovelace/): 1617–1657, 7 poems
- [Roddy Lumsden](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/roddy-lumsden/): 1966–2020, 2 poems
- [Louis MacNeice](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/louis-macneice/): 1907–1963, 3 poems
- [Stephane Mallarme](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/stephane-mallarme/): 1842–1898, 1 poem
- [Osip Mandelstam](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/osip-mandelstam/): 1891–1938, 13 poems
- [Christopher Marlowe](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/christopher-marlowe/): 1564–1593, 6 poems
- [Andrew Marvell](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/andrew-marvell/): 1621–1678, 60 poems
- [John Masefield](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/john-masefield/): 1878–1967, 25 poems
- [A.A. Milne](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/a-a-milne/): 1882–1956, 24 poems
- [Czeslaw Milosz](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/czeslaw-milosz/): 1911–2004, 33 poems
- [John Milton](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/john-milton/): 1608–1674, 102 poems
- [Gabriela Mistral](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/gabriela-mistral/): 1889–1957, 3 poems
- [Marianne Moore](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/marianne-moore/): 1887–1972, 18 poems
- [Edwin Morgan](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/edwin-morgan/): 1920–2010, 2 poems
- [Erin Moure](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/erin-moure/): Born 1955, 3 poems
- [Lisel Mueller](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/lisel-mueller/): 1924–2020, 21 poems
- [Paul Muldoon](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/paul-muldoon/): Born 1951, 17 poems
- [Les Murray](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/les-murray/): 1938–2019, 31 poems
- [Pablo Neruda](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/pablo-neruda/): 1904–1973, 44 poems
- [Sir Henry Newbolt](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/sir-henry-newbolt/): 1862–1938, 13 poems
- [Henrik Nordbrandt](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/henrik-nordbrandt/): 1945–2023, 1 poem
- [Alden Nowlan](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/alden-nowlan/): 1933–1983, 4 poems
- [Alfred Noyes](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/alfred-noyes/): 1880–1958, 1 poem
- [Mary Oliver](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/mary-oliver/): 1935–2019, 86 poems
- [Michael Ondaatje](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/michael-ondaatje/): Born 1943, 9 poems
- [Ovid](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/ovid/): 43 BC–AD 17, 23 poems
- [Wilfred Owen](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/wilfred-owen/): 1893–1918, 30 poems
- [P.K. Page](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/p-k-page/): 1916–2010, 2 poems
- [Andrew Barton Paterson](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/andrew-barton-paterson/): 1864–1941, 217 poems
- [Don Paterson](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/don-paterson/): Born 1963, 1 poem
- [Octavio Paz](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/octavio-paz/): 1914–1998, 1 poem
- [Fernando Pessoa](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/fernando-pessoa/): 1888–1935, 1 poem
- [Katherine Philips](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/katherine-philips/): 1631–1664, 20 poems
- [Harold Pinter](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/harold-pinter/): 1930–2008, 6 poems
- [Li Po](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/li-po/): 701–762, 62 poems
- [Vasko Popa](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/vasko-popa/): 1922–1991, 32 poems
- [Alexander Pope](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/alexander-pope/): 1688–1744, 34 poems
- [Matthew Prior](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/matthew-prior/): 1664–1721, 20 poems
- [Nizar Qabbani](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/nizar-qabbani/): 1923–1998, 5 poems
- [Craig Raine](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/craig-raine/): Born 1944, 8 poems
- [Sir Walter Raleigh](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/sir-walter-raleigh/): 1554–1618, 22 poems
- [Pierre Reverdy](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/pierre-reverdy/): 1889–1960, 1 poem
- [Lola Ridge](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/lola-ridge/): 1873–1941, 1 poem
- [Rainer Maria Rilke](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/rainer-maria-rilke/): 1875–1926, 104 poems
- [Theodore Roethke](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/theodore-roethke/): 1908–1963, 22 poems
- [Isaac Rosenberg](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/isaac-rosenberg/): 1890–1918, 10 poems
- [Christina Rossetti](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/christina-rossetti/): 1830–1894, 56 poems
- [Tadeusz Rozewicz](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/tadeusz-rozewicz/): 1921–2014, 1 poem
- [George William Russell](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/george-william-russell/): 1867–1935, 173 poems
- [Vita Sackville-West](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/vita-sackville-west/): 1892–1962, 1 poem
- [Siegfried Sassoon](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/siegfried-sassoon/): 1886–1967, 146 poems
- [Vernon Scannell](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/vernon-scannell/): 1922–2007, 16 poems
- [Robert William Service](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/robert-william-service/): 1874–1958, 861 poems
- [William Shakespeare](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/william-shakespeare/): 1564–1616, 155 poems
- [Percy Bysshe Shelley](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/percy-bysshe-shelley/): 1792–1822, 73 poems
- [Sir Philip Sidney](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/sir-philip-sidney/): 1554–1586, 75 poems
- [Dame Edith Sitwell](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/dame-edith-sitwell/): 1887–1964, 10 poems
- [Christopher Smart](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/christopher-smart/): 1722–1771, 20 poems
- [Elizabeth Smart](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/elizabeth-smart/): 1913–1986, 4 poems
- [Stevie Smith](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/stevie-smith/): 1902–1971, 31 poems
- [Charles Sorley](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/charles-sorley/): 1895–1915, 12 poems
- [Edmund Spenser](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/edmund-spenser/): 1552–1599, 155 poems
- [Mark Strand](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/mark-strand/): 1934–2014, 16 poems
- [Jonathan Swift](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/jonathan-swift/): 1667–1745, 22 poems
- [Algernon Charles Swinburne](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/algernon-charles-swinburne/): 1837–1909, 134 poems
- [Anna Swir](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/anna-swir/): 1909–1984, 4 poems
- [Wislawa Szymborska](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/wislawa-szymborska/): 1923–2012, 7 poems
- [Alfred Lord Tennyson](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/alfred-lord-tennyson/): 1809–1892, 163 poems
- [A.S.J. Tessimond](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/a-s-j-tessimond/): 1902–1962, 44 poems
- [Dylan Thomas](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/dylan-thomas/): 1914–1953, 65 poems
- [R.S. Thomas](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/r-s-thomas/): 1913–2000, 18 poems
- [Georg Trakl](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/georg-trakl/): 1887–1914, 2 poems
- [Francois Villon](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/francois-villon/): 1431–1463, 6 poems
- [Derek Walcott](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/derek-walcott/): 1930–2017, 21 poems
- [Joseph Warton](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/joseph-warton/): 1722–1800, 1 poem
- [Thomas Warton](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/thomas-warton/): 1728–1790, 7 poems
- [Wang Wei](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/wang-wei/): 699–761, 53 poems
- [Oscar Wilde](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/oscar-wilde/): 1854–1900, 86 poems
- [Hugo Williams](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/hugo-williams/): Born 1942, 9 poems
- [John Wilmot](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/john-wilmot/): 1647–1680, 31 poems
- [William Wordsworth](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/william-wordsworth/): 1770–1850, 6 poems
- [James Wright](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/james-wright/): 1927–1980, 27 poems
- [William Butler Yeats](https://poetryconnection.net/poets/william-butler-yeats/): 1865–1939, 363 poems

## Optional

- [Sitemap](https://poetryconnection.net/sitemap.xml): every poet and poem page