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Author (poems / stories)

Addison, Joseph -  (19)
Aiken, Conrad Potter -  (100/2)
Akenside, Mark -  (73)
Akhmatova, Anna -  (32)
Alcott, Louisa May -  (75/25)
Aldrich, Thomas Bailey -  (36/17)
Alger, Horatio -  (66/52)
Alighieri, Dante -  (100/1)
Allingham, William -  (48)
Amichai, Yehuda -  (44)
Ammons, A. R. -  (31)
Amott, Lennox -  (16)
Anderson, Elizabeth -  (2)
Archer, Jean C. -  (2)
Arnold, Matthew -  (151/3)
Balestier, Wolcott -  (0/21)
Barham, Richard Harris -  (23)
Barnes, William -  (29)
Bates, Clara Doty -  (32)
Bates, Katharine Lee -  (18)
Baudelaire, Charles -  (236/2)
Behn, Aphra -  (14)
Belloc, Hilaire -  (61/3)
Benet, Stephen Vincent -  (33/1)
Bennett, Charles Henry -  (2/2)
Bierce, Ambrose -  (16)
Blake, William -  (140)
Boake, Barcroft -  (36/3)
Boldrewood, Rolf -  (0/1)
Bowles, William Lisle -  (143)
Bradstreet, Anne -  (40)
Brecht, Bertolt -  (32)
Brereton, John Le Gay -  (67)
Bronte, Anne -  (69/2)
Bronte, Charlotte -  (25/4)
Bronte, Emily -  (52/1)
Bronte, Patrick -  (12)
Brooke, Rupert -  (97/1)
Brown, Thomas Edward -  (24)
Browning, Elizabeth Barrett -  (115)
Browning, Robert -  (214/6)
Bryant, William Cullen -  (132/3)
Burns, Robert -  (503/1)
Burrows, Joseph -  (1)
Butler, Ellis Parker -  (74/9)
Byron, George Gordon -  (189/12)
Campbell, John -  (48)
Campbell, Thomas -  (34)
Campion, Thomas -  (13)
Carew, Thomas -  (37)
Carleton, Will -  (22)
Carman, Bliss (William) -  (122)
Carmichael, Jennings (Grace) -  (2)
Carr, John (Sir) -  (112/1)
Carroll, Lewis -  (74/3)
Carryl, Guy Wetmore -  (41)
Cassels, Walter R. -  (49)
Castleman, Virginia Carter -  (1)
Cawein, Madison Julius -  (960)
Chant, Joseph Horatio -  (86)
Chesterton, Gilbert Keith -  (69/34)
Churchill, Charles -  (24)
Clare, John -  (384)
Clarke, Marcus Andrew Hislop -  (1/18)
Clough, Arthur Hugh -  (132/2)
Clough, Arthur Hugh -  (18)
Coleridge, Samuel Taylor -  (53)
Collier, Ada Langworthy -  (6)
Collins, William -  (11)
Colman, George -  (8)
Coolidge, Susan (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey) -  (68)
Cowper, William -  (308)
Crane, Walter -  (150/1)
Crosland, Thomas William Hodgson -  (13/1)
Cuthbertson, James Lister -  (10)
Daley, Victor James -  (93)
Darwin, Erasmus -  (8)
Davis, Thomas Osborne -  (4)
Davis, Thomas Osborne -  (35)
Derham, Enid -  (8)
Dickinson, Emily -  (448)
Dix, William Chatterton -  (1)
Dobson, Henry Austin -  (101/2)
Doneghy, George W. -  (64)
Dowson, Ernest Christopher -  (76/5)
Doyle, Arthur Conan -  (60/103)
Drake, Joseph Rodman -  (19)
Drayton, Michael -  (228)
Drummond, William Henry -  (72)
Dryden, John -  (126)
Duff, J. L. -  (1)
Dunbar, Paul Laurence -  (422)
Dutt, Toru -  (20)
Dyson, Edward -  (95/98)
Earls, Michael -  (45)
Edgar, Marriott -  (35)
Edwards, George Wharton -  (26)
Emerson, Ralph Waldo -  (226)
Ewing, Juliana Horatia Gatty -  (51)
Fairless, Michael -  (14)
Field, Eugene -  (324/67)
Fire-Fly, Fanny -  (1)
Flecker, James Elroy -  (43)
Foott, Mary Hannay -  (30)
Forrest, M. -  (2)
Freeman, John -  (197)
Frost, Robert Lee -  (168)
Garrison, Theodosia -  (61)
Gent, Thomas -  (118)
Gilbert, William Schwenck -  (172/1)
Gladden, Washington -  (3)
Glass, Nancy Rebecca Campbell -  (35)
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von -  (347)
Goldsmith, Oliver -  (40)
Goodrich, Samuel Griswold -  (38/1)
Gordon, Adam Lindsay -  (71)
Gordon, Hanford Lennox -  (75)
Gower, John -  (9)
Greenaway, Kate -  (40)
Gregory, Lady (Isabella Augusta) -  (36)
Gurney, Eliza Paul Kirkbride -  (43)
H. H. C. C. -  (1)
Hardy, Arthur Sherburne -  (12)
Hardy, Thomas -  (663/43)
Harper, Frances Ellen Watkins -  (46/2)
Harte, (Francis) Bret -  (120/62)
Hartley, John -  (299/60)
Hay, John -  (76/3)
Hayes, John Milton -  (7)
Hayley, William -  (36/1)
Hebblethwaite, James -  (4)
Heney, Thomas William -  (4)
Henley, William Ernest -  (154/5)
Hensley (Almon), Sophia Margaret -  (51)
Herford, Oliver -  (129)
Herrick, Robert -  (1467)
Hewlett, Maurice -  (35/14)
Hoatson, A. -  (2)
Hoffmann, Heinrich -  (21)
Holley, Marietta -  (68/2)
Holmes, Oliver Wendell -  (331/6)
Hood, Thomas -  (177)
Hooper, Lucy Hamilton -  (0/1)
Hope, James Barron -  (59)
Hope, Laurence (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson) -  (132)
Hopkins, Gerard Manley -  (71)
Horsford, Mary Gardiner -  (32)
Housman, Alfred Edward -  (105)
Howard, Hattie -  (87)
Hugo, Victor-Marie -  (63)
Hunt, James Henry Leigh -  (24)
Ide, Abijah M. -  (3)
Irving, Washington -  (52/27)
Jennings, Elizabeth -  (11)
Jonson, Ben -  (92)
Joyce, James -  (51/19)
Keats, John -  (147)
Kendall, Henry -  (215)
Kenna, Francis -  (1)
Kipling, Rudyard -  (641/528)
Landor, Walter Savage -  (103)
Lawson, Henry -  (475/164)
Leland, Charles G. -  (53)
Lowell, Robert -  (16)
Masefield, John -  (40)
McCrae, John -  (29)
Miller, Joaquin -  (19)
Milton, John -  (131/1)
Orwell, George -  (8/64)
Osborne, Louis Shreve -  (1)
Paterson, Banjo -  (227/58)
Poe, Edgar Allan -  (84/100)
Pope, Alexander -  (82)
Prior, Matthew -  (189)
Qabbani, Nizar -  (38)
Scott, (Sir) Walter -  (157/7)
Shakespeare, William -  (159/24)
Swinburne, Algernon Charles -  (464/7)
Teasdale, Sara -  (324)
Tennyson, Alfred Lord -  (327)
Thomson, James -  (10)
Thomson, James (Bysshe Vanolis) -  (46)
Wells, H. G. -  (0/57)
Whitman, Walt -  (338)
Whittier, John Greenleaf -  (483)
Willis, Nathaniel Parker -  (12/1)
Wilmot, John -  (39)
Wordsworth, William -  (969)
Yeats, William Butler -  (384)


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Please Note: This list is not comprehensive, but is an ongoing work of the love of poetry.

Within this area you will be able to read, and give your thoughts on the poetry listed.

Please, if you find an error, let me know. - This is an ongoing site, more poetry will be added very regularly

We have:- 20,903 Poems and 1,773 Stories/Essays (with 7,412 Chapters) on site.

Unfortunately, listed here are probably only the better known poets. In these modern times in which we live, there are countless poets whose work disappears into oblivion with their passing, as probably will mine when that day arrives for myself. If you have any poetry that you would like to have featured here, be-it from a passed loved one, or friend, and you have permission to do so, please feel free to contact me so that we can see about adding it to these pages. - Footnote: My poetry can be viewed under my name at Your Poetry Dot Com.



Latest Poems Added - TitleAuthor
Song Of Love.Victor-Marie Hugo
Morning.Victor-Marie Hugo
Insult Not The Fallen.Victor-Marie Hugo
Poland.Victor-Marie Hugo
To Canaris, The Greek Patriot.Victor-Marie Hugo
Prayer For France.Victor-Marie Hugo
Outside The Ball-Room.Victor-Marie Hugo
Invocation.Victor-Marie Hugo
The Eaglet Mourned.Victor-Marie Hugo
The Morrow Of Grandeur.Victor-Marie Hugo

Latest Stories Added - TitleAuthor
Under False Colors.Lucy Hamilton Hooper
The Professor At The Breakfast TableOliver Wendell Holmes
The Guardian AngelOliver Wendell Holmes
Elsie VennerOliver Wendell Holmes
A Visit To The Asylum For Aged And Decayed PunstersOliver Wendell Holmes
The Autocrat Of The Breakfast TableOliver Wendell Holmes
The Poet At The Breakfast TableOliver Wendell Holmes
Samantha On The Woman QuestionMarietta Holley
Sweet Cicely Or Josiah Allen As A PoliticianMarietta Holley
Madonna Of The Peach-TreeMaurice Henry Hewlett

Latest Authors AddedPeriodPoemsStories
Victor-Marie Hugo (February 26, 1802 – May 22, 1885) 630
Hattie Howard () 870
Alfred Edward Housman (26 March 1859 – 30 April 1936) 1050
Mary Gardiner Horsford (1824 - 1855) 320
Gerard Manley Hopkins (28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889) 710
Laurence Hope (Adela Florence Cory Nicolson) (1865 - 1904) 1320
James Barron Hope (23rd March, 1829 - 15th September, 1887) 590
Lucy Hamilton Hooper (1835-1893) 01
Thomas Hood (23 May 1799 – 3 May 1845) 1770
Oliver Wendell Holmes (August 29, 1809 – October 7, 1894) 3316
Marietta Holley (1836-1926) 682
Heinrich Hoffmann (1809-1894) 210
A. Hoatson () 20
Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923) 3514
Oliver Herford (1863 - 1935) 1290
Sophie M. (Almon) Hensley (1866-1913) 510
William Ernest Henley (August 23, 1849 – July 11, 1903) 1545
William Hayley (November 9, 1745 - November 12, 1820) 361
John Milton Hay (October 8, 1838 – July 1, 1905) 763
John Hartley (1839-1915) 29960
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper (24 September 1825 - 22 February 1911) 462
Thomas Hardy (2 June 1840 – 11 January 1928) 66343
Arthur Sherburne Hardy (1847-1930) 120
Eliza Paul Kirkbride Gurney (1801-1881) 430
Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory (15 March 1852 – 22 May 1932) 360
Kate Greenaway (17 March 1846 – 6 November 1901) 400
John Gower (1330 – October 1408) 90
Hanford Lennox Gordon (1836-1920) 750
Samuel Griswold Goodrich (August 19, 1793 - May 9, 1860) 381
Oliver Goldsmith (10 November 1730? – 4 April 1774) 400
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (28 August 1749 – 22 March 1832) 3470
Nancy Rebecca Campbell Glass (1842 - ?) 350
Washington Gladden (February 11, 1836 - July 2, 1918) 30
William Schwenck Gilbert (1836 - 1911) 1721
Thomas Gent (1780 - ?) 1180
Theodosia Garrison (1874 - 1944) 610
John Frederick Freeman (January 29, 1880 – September 23, 1929) 1970
James Elroy Flecker (November 5, 1884 - January 3, 1915) 430
Fanny Fire-Fly () 10
Eugene Field (September 2, 1850 - November 4, 1895) 32467
Michael Fairless (1869 - 1901) 140
Juliana Horatia Ewing (1841 – 1885) 510
Ralph Waldo Emerson (May 25, 1803 – April 27, 1882) 2260
George Wharton Edwards (1859 – January 18, 1950) 260
Michael Earls (1875 - 1937) 450
Toru Dutt (March 4, 1856 - August 30, 1877) 200
Paul Laurence Dunbar (June 27, 1872 – February 9, 1906) 4220
J. L. Duff () 10
John Dryden (( 9 August 1631 – 1 May 1700 )) 1260
Michael Drayton (1563 – December 23, 1631) 2280
Joseph Rodman Drake (August 17, 1795–September 21, 1820) 190
Arthur Conan Doyle (22 May 1859 – 7 July 1930) 60103
Ernest Christopher Dowson (2 August 1867 – 21 February 1900) 765
Dante Alighieri (May/June c.1265 - September 14, 1321) 1001
George W. Doneghy () 640
Henry Austin Dobson (January 18, 1840 – September 2, 1921) 1012
Emily Elizabeth Dickinson (December 10, 1830 – May 15, 1886) 4480
Thomas Osborne Davis (October 14, 1814 - September 16, 1845) 350
Erasmus Darwin (12 December 1731–18 April 1802) 80
Thomas William Hodgson Crosland (1865 - 1924) 131
Walter Crane (15 August 1845 – 14 March 1915) 1501
William Cowper (November 26, 1731 – April 25, 1800) 3070
Susan Coolidge (Sarah Chauncey Woolsey) (January 29, 1835 - April 9, 1905) 680
George Colman (October 21, 1762–October 17, 1836) 80
Ada Langworthy Collier (1843 - ?) 60
Guy Wetmore Carryl (March 4, 1873 – April 1, 1904) 410
Charles Henry Bennett (1829–1867) 22
Stephen Vincent Benet (July 22, 1898 – March 13, 1943) 331
Clara Doty Bates (1838 - 1895) 320
Jean C. Archer. () 20
Elizabeth Anderson () 20
Lennox Amott () 160
Horatio Alger, Jr. (January 13, 1832 – July 18, 1899) 6552
Thomas Bailey Aldrich (11 November 1836 – 19 March 1907) 3617
Louisa May Alcott (November 29, 1832 – March 6, 1888) 7525
Arthur Hugh Clough (January 1, 1819 – November 13, 1861) 180
John Clare (13 July 1793 – 20 May 1864) 3840
Charles Churchill (February, 1731 - November 4, 1764) 240
Gilbert Keith Chesterton (May 29, 1874 – June 14, 1936) 6934
Thomas Carew (1595 – March 22, 1640) 370
Thomas Campion (February 12, 1567 – March 1, 1620) 130
Joseph Horatio Chant (August 19, 1837 - June 8, 1928) 860
Madison Julius Cawein (23 March 1865 - 8 December 1914) 9590
Virginia Carter Castleman (1864 - 1937) 10
Walter R. Cassels (4 September 1826 - 10 June 1907) 490
John Carr (Sir) (1772 - 1832) 1121
Bliss Carman (William) (April 15, 1861 - June 8, 1929) 1220
Will Carleton (October 21, 1845 – December 18, 1912) 220
John Campbell (6 August 1845 – 2 May 1914) 480
George Gordon Byron (22 January 1788 – 19 April 1824) 18912
Ellis Parker Butler (December 5, 1869 - September 13, 1937) 749
Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796) 5021
William Cullen Bryant (November 3, 1794 - June 12, 1878) 1323
Thomas Edward Brown (May 5, 1830 - October 29, 1897) 240
Rupert Brooke (August 3, 1887 - 23 April 1915) 971
Patrick Bronte (17 March 1777 - 7 June 1861) 120
Emily Bronte (July 30, 1818 – December 19, 1848) 521
Charlotte Bronte (April 21, 1816 – March 31, 1855) 254
Anne Bronte (January 17, 1820 – May 28, 1849) 692
Anne Bradstreet (1612 – September 16, 1672) 400


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