Reference library

Poems everyone can stand next to.

Public-domain work, kept apart from the workshop — nobody here is a member, nothing here is up for critique, and none of it can be edited or taken down. It is here so a new visitor has something to read on the way in, and so a line everyone half-remembers has a home.

1 poemChristina Rossetti1830–1894. London, England.2 poemsEmily Dickinson1830–1886. Amherst, Massachusetts. Nearly all of her writing was published after her death.1 poemJohn Keats1795–1821. London, England.1 poemPercy Bysshe Shelley1792–1822. Sussex, England.2 poemsRobert Frost1874–1963. San Francisco and New England.1 poemSara Teasdale1884–1933. St. Louis, Missouri.1 poemWalt Whitman1819–1892. Long Island and Brooklyn, New York. Author of Leaves of Grass.1 poemWilliam Blake1757–1827. London, England. Poet, painter and printmaker.1 poemWilliam Shakespeare1564–1616. Stratford-upon-Avon, England. 154 sonnets, first published 1609.