PoetryLinks

19th C.

US

• Emily Dickinson
  • "A word is dead / When it is said / Some say. § I say it just / Begins to live / That day.
  • "I'm Nobody, Who are You?" [1]
  • "If you were coming in the fall" [2]
• Edgar Allen Poe,
  • Annabel Lee [3]
  • The Raven [4]
• Walt Whitman
  • "O Captain! My Captain!" [5] from Leaves of Grass

UK

• Edward Fitzgerald
  • "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" [6] (click go)
• Lord Alfred Tennyson
  • "The Lady of Shalott" [7]

20th C.

US

Poetry

• e.e. cummings
  • "In just-spring" [8]
• Ishmael Reed
  • A Cowboy in the Boat of Ra [9]
  • "Dualism in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man":
    I am outside of history. / i wish i had some peanuts, / it looks hungry there in the cage.
    i am outside of history. / its hungrier than i thot."
• Adrienne Rich
  • "Diving into the Wreck" [10]
• Wallace Stevens
  • "The Man With the Blue Guitar" [11]