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Free Verse Poems

Poetry without a fixed meter or rhyme scheme, shaped by the rhythms of speech.

Walt WhitmanWhitman Langston HughesHughes T. S. EliotEliot William Carlos WilliamsWilliams
8 poems
I Hear America SingingI hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Walt Whitman Free Verse I, TooI, too, sing America. Langston Hughes Free Verse Mother to SonWell, son, I’ll tell you: Langston Hughes Dramatic Monologue Song of MyselfI celebrate myself, and sing myself, Walt Whitman Free Verse The Hollow MenMistah Kurtz—he dead. T. S. Eliot Free Verse The Negro Speaks of RiversI’ve known rivers: Langston Hughes Free Verse The Red Wheelbarrowso much depends William Carlos Williams Free Verse When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d (Selected Excerpts)When lilacs last in the dooryard bloom’d, Walt Whitman Elegy