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Verse from across the centuries. Single poems and longer works in lines, made to be read aloud and held in the ear.

The Odyssey
Homer
The Odyssey
Homer
The Iliad
Homer
The Iliad
Homer
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Emily Dickinson
A narrow Fellow in the Grass
Emily Dickinson
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Emily Dickinson
After great pain, a formal feeling comes
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death
Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death
Emily Dickinson
Beowulf
Anonymous
Beowulf
Anonymous
Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold
Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
Thomas Gray
Fragment 31
Sappho
Fragment 31
Sappho
Holy Sonnets
John Donne
Holy Sonnets
John Donne
Hope is the thing with feathers
Emily Dickinson
Hope is the thing with feathers
Emily Dickinson
I cannot live with You
Emily Dickinson
I cannot live with You
Emily Dickinson
I dwell in Possibility
Emily Dickinson
I dwell in Possibility
Emily Dickinson
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
Emily Dickinson
I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
Emily Dickinson
I heard a Fly buzz, when I died
Emily Dickinson
I heard a Fly buzz, when I died
Emily Dickinson
I taste a liquor never brewed
Emily Dickinson
I taste a liquor never brewed
Emily Dickinson
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
William Wordsworth
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Emily Dickinson
I'm Nobody! Who are you?
Emily Dickinson
In Memoriam A.H.H.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Memoriam A.H.H.
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Metamorphoses
Ovid
Much Madness is divinest Sense
Emily Dickinson
Much Madness is divinest Sense
Emily Dickinson
My Last Duchess
Robert Browning
My Last Duchess
Robert Browning
My Life had stood, a Loaded Gun
Emily Dickinson
My Life had stood, a Loaded Gun
Emily Dickinson
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Paradise Lost
John Milton
Prometheus Unbound
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Prometheus Unbound
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
Emily Dickinson
Safe in their Alabaster Chambers
Emily Dickinson
Sailing to Byzantium
W.B. Yeats
Sailing to Byzantium
W.B. Yeats
Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
Song of Myself
Walt Whitman
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Success is counted sweetest
Emily Dickinson
Success is counted sweetest
Emily Dickinson
Tell all the truth but tell it slant
Emily Dickinson
Tell all the truth but tell it slant
Emily Dickinson
The Bhagavad Gita
Anonymous
The Bhagavad Gita
Anonymous
The Brain is wider than the Sky
Emily Dickinson
The Brain is wider than the Sky
Emily Dickinson
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Wallace Stevens
The Emperor of Ice-Cream
Wallace Stevens
The Eve of St. Agnes
John Keats
The Eve of St. Agnes
John Keats
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T.S. Eliot
The Prelude
William Wordsworth
The Prelude
William Wordsworth
The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope
The Rape of the Lock
Alexander Pope
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Second Coming
W.B. Yeats
The Second Coming
W.B. Yeats
The Soul selects her own Society
Emily Dickinson
The Soul selects her own Society
Emily Dickinson
The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land
T.S. Eliot
The Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins
The Windhover
Gerard Manley Hopkins
There is no Frigate like a Book
Emily Dickinson
There is no Frigate like a Book
Emily Dickinson
There's a certain Slant of light
Emily Dickinson
There's a certain Slant of light
Emily Dickinson
To Autumn
John Keats
To Autumn
John Keats
To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell
To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell
Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
Emily Dickinson
Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
Emily Dickinson