Poets
The poets
196 poets and 8,657 poems, from antiquity to today.
196 poets
Sonja Akesson1926–1977 · 1 poem
Anna Akhmatova1889–1966 · 27 poems
Dante Alighieri1265–1321 · 10 poems
Yehuda Amichai1924–2000 · 38 poems
Kingsley Amis1922–1995 · 1 poem
A.R. Ammons1926–2001 · 26 poems
Jon Anderson1940–2007 · 6 poems
Guillaume Apollinaire1880–1918 · 7 poems
Matthew Arnold1822–1888 · 46 poems
Hans Arp1886–1966 · 1 poem
Margaret Atwoodb. 1939 · 28 poems
W. H. Auden1907–1973 · 75 poems
Ingeborg Bachmann1926–1973 · 3 poems
Christianne Balkb. 1953 · 5 poems
William Barnes1801–1886 · 12 poems
Matsuo Basho1644–1694 · 39 poems
Charles Baudelaire1821–1867 · 45 poems
Hilaire Belloc1870–1953 · 61 poems
John Betjeman1906–1984 · 48 poems
Elizabeth Bishop1911–1979 · 65 poems
Thomas Blackburn1916–1977 · 3 poems
William Blake1757–1827 · 131 poems
Eavan Boland1944–2020 · 9 poems
Yves Bonnefoy1923–2016 · 11 poems
Jorge Luis Borges1899–1986 · 14 poems
Edgar Bowers1924–2000 · 5 poems
William Lisle Bowles1762–1850 · 29 poems- George Bradleyb. 1953 · 1 poem
Bertolt Brecht1898–1956 · 28 poems
Andre Breton1896–1966 · 4 poems
Edwin Brock1927–1997 · 1 poem
Joseph Brodsky1940–1996 · 18 poems
Charlotte Bronte1816–1855 · 22 poems
Emily Bronte1818–1848 · 55 poems
Rupert Brooke1887–1915 · 102 poems
T. E. Brown1830–1897 · 13 poems
Elizabeth Barrett Browning1806–1861 · 110 poems
Robert Browning1812–1889 · 110 poems
Robert Burns1759–1796 · 577 poems
John Burnside1955–2024 · 4 poems
Yosa Buson1716–1784 · 30 poems
Lord Byron1788–1824 · 86 poems
Thomas Carew1595–1640 · 34 poems
Lewis Carroll1832–1898 · 73 poems
Constantine P. Cavafy1863–1933 · 65 poems
Paul Celan1920–1970 · 9 poems
Geoffrey Chaucer1343–1400 · 14 poems
Andree Chedid1920–2011 · 4 poems
Peter Cherchesb. 1956 · 2 poems
G.K. Chesterton1874–1936 · 61 poems
John Clare1793–1864 · 34 poems
Austin Clarke1896–1974 · 3 poems
Arthur Hugh Clough1819–1861 · 17 poems
Jean Cocteau1889–1963 · 1 poem
Leonard Cohen1934–2016 · 15 poems
Samuel Coleridge1772–1834 · 80 poems
William Collins1721–1759 · 5 poems
Abraham Cowley1618–1667 · 1 poem
William Cowper1731–1800 · 87 poems
Richard Crashaw1613–1649 · 20 poems
Andrew Crumeyb. 1961 · 1 poem
Roald Dahl1916–1990 · 5 poems
Mahmoud Darwish1941–2008 · 8 poems
Regina Derieva1949–2013 · 9 poems
Michael Donaghy1954–2004 · 1 poem
John Donne1572–1631 · 70 poems
Keith Douglas1920–1944 · 5 poems
Ernest Dowson1867–1900 · 14 poems
Michael Drayton1563–1631 · 80 poems
William Drummond1585–1649 · 6 poems
John Dryden1631–1700 · 25 poems
Carol Ann Duffyb. 1955 · 4 poems
Helen Dunmore1952–2017 · 1 poem
Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff1788–1857 · 1 poem
Edward Fitzgerald1809–1883 · 4 poems
Thomas Flatman1637–1688 · 3 poems
John Fletcher1579–1625 · 14 poems
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe1749–1832 · 284 poems
Oliver Goldsmith1730–1774 · 4 poems
Robert Graves1895–1985 · 74 poems
Thomas Gray1716–1771 · 11 poems
Eamon Grennanb. 1941 · 5 poems
Rafael Guillen1933–2023 · 3 poems
Thom Gunn1929–2004 · 3 poems
Thomas Hardy1840–1928 · 217 poems
Tony Harrison1937–2025 · 8 poems
Seamus Heaney1939–2013 · 30 poems
William Ernest Henley1849–1903 · 17 poems
George Herbert1593–1633 · 79 poems
Robert Herrick1591–1674 · 281 poems
Hermann Hesse1877–1962 · 10 poems
Nazim Hikmet1901–1963 · 21 poems
Geoffrey Hill1932–2016 · 7 poems
Homer750 BC–750 BC · 48 poems
Gerard Manley Hopkins1844–1889 · 84 poems
A.E. Housman1859–1936 · 81 poems
Peter Huchel1903–1981 · 4 poems
Ted Hughes1930–1998 · 24 poems
James Henry Leigh Hunt1784–1859 · 24 poems
Ho Xuan Huong1772–1822 · 1 poem
Kobayashi Issa1763–1828 · 50 poems
Elizabeth Jennings1926–2001 · 10 poems
Ben Jonson1572–1637 · 41 poems
Patrick Kavanagh1904–1967 · 9 poems
John Keats1795–1821 · 82 poems
Rudyard Kipling1865–1936 · 5 poems
Walter Savage Landor1775–1864 · 52 poems
Jiri Mordecai Langer1894–1943 · 1 poem
Philip Larkin1922–1985 · 95 poems
D.H. Lawrence1885–1930 · 109 poems
Henry Lawson1867–1922 · 122 poems
Edward Lear1812–1888 · 19 poems
Federico Garcia Lorca1898–1936 · 32 poems
Richard Lovelace1617–1657 · 7 poems
Roddy Lumsden1966–2020 · 2 poems
Louis MacNeice1907–1963 · 3 poems
Stephane Mallarme1842–1898 · 1 poem
Osip Mandelstam1891–1938 · 13 poems
Christopher Marlowe1564–1593 · 6 poems
Andrew Marvell1621–1678 · 60 poems
John Masefield1878–1967 · 25 poems
A.A. Milne1882–1956 · 24 poems
Czeslaw Milosz1911–2004 · 33 poems
John Milton1608–1674 · 102 poems
Gabriela Mistral1889–1957 · 3 poems
Marianne Moore1887–1972 · 18 poems
Edwin Morgan1920–2010 · 2 poems
Erin Moureb. 1955 · 3 poems
Lisel Mueller1924–2020 · 21 poems
Paul Muldoonb. 1951 · 17 poems
Les Murray1938–2019 · 31 poems
Pablo Neruda1904–1973 · 44 poems
Sir Henry Newbolt1862–1938 · 13 poems
Henrik Nordbrandt1945–2023 · 1 poem
Alden Nowlan1933–1983 · 4 poems
Alfred Noyes1880–1958 · 1 poem
Mary Oliver1935–2019 · 86 poems
Michael Ondaatjeb. 1943 · 9 poems
Ovid43 BC–AD 17 · 23 poems
Wilfred Owen1893–1918 · 30 poems
P.K. Page1916–2010 · 2 poems
Andrew Barton Paterson1864–1941 · 217 poems
Don Patersonb. 1963 · 1 poem
Octavio Paz1914–1998 · 1 poem
Fernando Pessoa1888–1935 · 1 poem
Katherine Philips1631–1664 · 20 poems
Harold Pinter1930–2008 · 6 poems
Li Po701–762 · 62 poems
Vasko Popa1922–1991 · 32 poems
Alexander Pope1688–1744 · 34 poems
Matthew Prior1664–1721 · 20 poems
Nizar Qabbani1923–1998 · 5 poems
Craig Raineb. 1944 · 8 poems
Sir Walter Raleigh1554–1618 · 22 poems
Pierre Reverdy1889–1960 · 1 poem
Lola Ridge1873–1941 · 1 poem
Rainer Maria Rilke1875–1926 · 104 poems
Theodore Roethke1908–1963 · 22 poems
Isaac Rosenberg1890–1918 · 10 poems
Christina Rossetti1830–1894 · 56 poems
Tadeusz Rozewicz1921–2014 · 1 poem
George William Russell1867–1935 · 173 poems
Vita Sackville-West1892–1962 · 1 poem
Siegfried Sassoon1886–1967 · 146 poems
Vernon Scannell1922–2007 · 16 poems
Robert William Service1874–1958 · 861 poems
William Shakespeare1564–1616 · 155 poems
Percy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822 · 73 poems
Sir Philip Sidney1554–1586 · 76 poems
Dame Edith Sitwell1887–1964 · 11 poems
Christopher Smart1722–1771 · 20 poems
Elizabeth Smart1913–1986 · 4 poems
Stevie Smith1902–1971 · 31 poems
Charles Sorley1895–1915 · 12 poems
Edmund Spenser1552–1599 · 155 poems
Mark Strand1934–2014 · 16 poems
Jonathan Swift1667–1745 · 22 poems
Algernon Charles Swinburne1837–1909 · 134 poems
Anna Swir1909–1984 · 4 poems
Wislawa Szymborska1923–2012 · 7 poems
Alfred Lord Tennyson1809–1892 · 163 poems
A.S.J. Tessimond1902–1962 · 44 poems
Dylan Thomas1914–1953 · 65 poems
R.S. Thomas1913–2000 · 18 poems
Georg Trakl1887–1914 · 2 poems
Francois Villon1431–1463 · 6 poems
Derek Walcott1930–2017 · 21 poems
Joseph Warton1722–1800 · 1 poem
Thomas Warton1728–1790 · 7 poems
Wang Wei699–761 · 53 poems
Oscar Wilde1854–1900 · 86 poems
Hugo Williamsb. 1942 · 9 poems
John Wilmot1647–1680 · 31 poems
William Wordsworth1770–1850 · 6 poems- James Wright1927–1980 · 27 poems
William Butler Yeats1865–1939 · 363 poems
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