Poems

Explore a growing archive of the world’s greatest poems, from the classical to the modern age. Each poem is presented in its original text, paired with thoughtful analysis and historical context. Whether you’re rediscovering the familiar or reading a timeless voice for the first time, these works reveal how poetry captures what endures in language — feeling, memory, and the shape of thought.

Howl

Enter Allen Ginsberg’s Howl — a visionary outcry of madness, passion, and rebellion that redefined American poetry and free expression.

No Man Is An Island

John Donne’s timeless meditation on human unity and mortality — a profound reminder that all souls are connected.

The Waste Land

Eliot’s “The Waste Land” reshapes modern poetry with its haunting vision of despair, renewal, and fractured faith.

Still I Rise

An in-depth analysis of Maya Angelou’s “Still I Rise,” exploring how the poem transforms personal pain into collective triumph.

When You Are Old

Yeats reflects on love and memory in “When You Are Old,” a tender vision of devotion and time’s quiet sorrow.

Invictus

“Invictus” captures unbroken resolve in the face of suffering — William Ernest Henley’s immortal cry of the unconquered soul.

The Raven

Explore Edgar Allan Poe’s haunting vision of grief and obsession in “The Raven,” where memory becomes both muse and torment.

The Kiss

Fulfillment turns ambivalent in Teasdale’s eight-line lyric of longing and disillusion.

I Am Not Yours

Teasdale’s classic love lyric balancing the hunger to yield with the need to remain oneself.