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Lyric Poems

A short poem in one voice, expressing a personal thought or feeling rather than telling a story.

68 poems
A Bird Came Down the WalkA bird came down the walk: Emily Dickinson Lyric A BirthdayMy heart is like a singing bird Christina Rossetti Lyric A Dream within a DreamTake this kiss upon the brow! Edgar Allan Poe Lyric A Late WalkWhen I go up through the mowing field, Robert Frost Lyric A Psalm of LifeTell me not, in mournful numbers, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lyric After Apple-PickingMy long two-pointed ladder’s sticking through a tree Robert Frost Lyric After Great Pain, a Formal Feeling ComesAfter great pain a formal feeling comes— Emily Dickinson Lyric Because I Could Not Stop for DeathBecause I could not stop for Death, Emily Dickinson Lyric Christmas Bells (I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day)I heard the bells on Christmas Day Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lyric Crossing the BarSunset and evening star, Alfred Tennyson Lyric Daffodils (I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud)I wandered lonely as a cloud William Wordsworth Lyric Fire and IceSome say the world will end in fire, Robert Frost Lyric Ghost HouseI dwell in a lonely house I know Robert Frost Lyric Going for WaterThe well was dry beside the door, Robert Frost Lyric Hope Is the Thing with FeathersHope is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson Lyric I Am Not YoursI am not yours, not lost in you, Sara Teasdale Lyric I Dwell in PossibilityI dwell in Possibility Emily Dickinson Lyric I heard a Fly buzz – when I died –I heard a fly buzz when I died; Emily Dickinson Lyric In the Bleak MidwinterIn the bleak mid-winter Christina Rossetti Lyric Into My OwnOne of my wishes is that those dark trees, Robert Frost Lyric InvictusOut of the night that covers me, Lyric I’m Nobody! Who Are You?I’m nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson Lyric Lines Written in Early SpringI heard a thousand blended notes, William Wordsworth Lyric Love Came Down at ChristmasLove came down at Christmas, Christina Rossetti Lyric Loveliest of TreesLoveliest of trees, the cherry now A. E. Housman Lyric Love’s PhilosophyThe fountains mingle with the river, Percy Bysshe Shelley Lyric My November GuestMy Sorrow, when she’s here with me, Robert Frost Lyric Neutral TonesWe stood by a pond that winter day, Thomas Hardy Lyric Nothing Gold Can StayNature’s first green is gold, Robert Frost Lyric On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year’T is time this heart should be unmoved, Lord Byron Lyric ReluctanceOut through the fields and the woods Robert Frost Lyric RevelationWe make ourselves a place apart Robert Frost Lyric Ring Out, Wild BellsRing out wild bells to the wild sky, Alfred Tennyson Lyric She Walks in BeautyShe walks in Beauty, like the night Lord Byron Lyric So, We’ll Go No More a RovingSo we’ll go no more a-roving Lord Byron Lyric Song (When I Am Dead, My Dearest)When I am dead, my dearest, Christina Rossetti Lyric Stopping by Woods on a Snowy EveningWhose woods these are I think I know. Robert Frost Lyric SympathyI know what the caged bird feels, alas! Paul Laurence Dunbar Lyric Tears, Idle Tears‘‘Tears, idle tears, I know not what they mean, Alfred Tennyson Lyric Tell All the Truth but Tell It Slant Emily Dickinson Lyric The Burning BabeAs I in hoary winter’s night Lyric The EagleHe clasps the crag with crooked hands; Alfred Tennyson Lyric The FleaMark but this flea, and mark in this, John Donne Lyric The Good-MorrowI wonder, by my troth, what thou and I John Donne Lyric The KissI hoped that he would love me, Sara Teasdale Lyric The LambLittle Lamb, who made thee William Blake Lyric The LookStrephon kissed me in the spring, Sara Teasdale Lyric The MagiNow as at all times I can see in the mind's eye, W. B. Yeats Lyric The OxenChristmas Eve, and twelve of the clock. Thomas Hardy Lyric The PastureI'm going out to clean the pasture spring; Robert Frost Lyric The Road Not TakenTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood, Robert Frost Lyric The Solitary ReaperBehold her, single in the field, William Wordsworth Lyric The Soul Selects Her Own SocietyThe soul selects her own society, Emily Dickinson Lyric The Sound of the TreesI wonder about the trees. Robert Frost Lyric The TygerTyger! Tyger! burning bright William Blake Lyric The Vantage PointIf tired of trees I seek again mankind, Robert Frost Lyric The White Man’s BurdenTake up the White Man’s burden— Rudyard Kipling Lyric There Will Come Soft RainsThere will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, Sara Teasdale Lyric There’s a Certain Slant of LightThere’s a certain slant of light, Emily Dickinson Lyric To His Coy MistressHad we but world enough, and time, Lyric To the Virgins, to Make Much of TimeGather ye rosebuds while ye may, Robert Herrick Lyric Up-HillDoes the road wind up-hill all the way? Christina Rossetti Lyric When I Was One-and-TwentyWhen I was one-and-twenty A. E. Housman Lyric When We Two PartedWhen we two parted Lord Byron Lyric When You Are OldWhen you are old and grey and full of sleep, W. B. Yeats Lyric Wild Nights – Wild Nights!Wild nights! Wild nights! Emily Dickinson Lyric With Rue My Heart Is LadenWith rue my heart is laden A. E. Housman Elegy Wynken, Blynken, and NodWynken, Blynken, and Nod one night Lyric