Attributions

Every poem on this site is quoted from one of the public-domain editions below. The Source line under each poem names the edition its text is taken from, and a poem has the same text and source on every page where it appears.

Anthologies

These are also the anthologies counted in the "Anthologies" figure under each poem. An anthology published in several volumes or books counts once.

Poems Teachers Ask For. Book Two. Project Gutenberg eBook #18909, #19469.

The Golden Treasury, selected by Francis Turner Palgrave. Project Gutenberg eBook #19221.

The Home Book of Verse, edited by Burton Egbert Stevenson. Project Gutenberg eBook #2619, #2620, #2621, #2622.

The Hundred Best English Poems, selected by Adam L. Gowans (1904). Project Gutenberg eBook #17768.

The Oxford Book of English Verse 1250–1900 (1900). Project Gutenberg eBook #66619.

The World's Best Poetry, edited by Bliss Carman (1904). Vol. III, Vol. IV, Vol. VIII, Vol. IX. Project Gutenberg eBook #16786, #12759, #12924, #43223.

Poetry books by library subject

A book of Christmas verse, H. C. Beeching (1926). Library subject: Christmas -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #70928.

A Shropshire Lad, A. E. Housman (1919). Library subject: Shropshire (England) -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #5720.

A Treasury of War Poetry: British and American Poems of the World War 1914-1917, George Herbert Clarke. Library subject: World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #8820.

'All's Well!', John Oxenham (1916). Project Gutenberg eBook #27126.

Awd Isaac, The Steeple Chase, and Other Poems With a glossary of the Yorkshire Dialect, John Castillo (1843). Project Gutenberg eBook #35287.

Ballads, Founded on Anecdotes Relating to Animals, William Hayley (1805). Library subject: Animals -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #9048.

Birds, Beasts and Flowers Poems by D. H. Lawrence, D. H. Lawrence. Library subject: Animals -- Poetry; Nature -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #60337.

Children of Christmas, and Others, Edith Matilda Thomas (1907). Project Gutenberg eBook #40598.

Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse, Eugene Field (1912). Project Gutenberg eBook #17630.

Departmental ditties and Ballads and Barrack-room ballads, Rudyard Kipling. Library subject: Great Britain. Army -- Military life -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #7846.

Farm Ballads, Will Carleton. Library subject: Farm life -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #9500.

God's drum, and other cycles from Indian lore, Hartley Burr Alexander (1927). Library subject: Indians of North America -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #77455.

Hello, Boys!, Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1919). Project Gutenberg eBook #6666.

In Flanders Fields, and Other Poems, John McCrae. Library subject: World War, 1914-1918 -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #353.

Lauds and libels, Charles L. Graves (1918). Project Gutenberg eBook #57467.

Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics, Bliss Carman. Library subject: Grand Pré (N.S.) -- Description and travel -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #56300.

Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field, Henry Morley. Library subject: Flodden, Battle of, England, 1513 -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #4010.

Moments of Vision and Miscellaneous Verses, Thomas Hardy (1929). Project Gutenberg eBook #3255.

On Patrol, John Graham Bower (1919). Project Gutenberg eBook #41944.

Poems of Nature, Henry David Thoreau. Library subject: Nature -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #59988.

Poems of Rural Life in the Dorset Dialect, William Barnes. Library subject: Dorset (England) -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #21785.

Rivers to the Sea, Sara Teasdale. Library subject: Nature -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #596.

Severn & Somme, Ivor Gurney (1917). Project Gutenberg eBook #63895.

Songs of a Red Cross nurse, Brookes More (1918). Library subject: Nurses -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #79500.

Songs of Heroic Days, Thomas O'Hagan (1916). Project Gutenberg eBook #37154.

Songs of the unblind Cupid, J. Wm. Lloyd (1899). Project Gutenberg eBook #77744.

Songs of Travel, and Other Verses, Sidney Colvin. Library subject: Voyages and travels -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #487.

The Baron's Yule Feast: A Christmas Rhyme, Thomas Cooper (1846). Project Gutenberg eBook #29722.

The Laughing Willow Verses and Pictures, Oliver Herford (1918). Project Gutenberg eBook #56357.

The Poems and Verses of Charles Dickens, Frederic George Kitton. Library subject: England -- Social life and customs -- 19th century -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #35536.

The Rape of the Lock, and Other Poems, Alexander Pope (1906). Library subject: Catholics -- England -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #9800.

The rhyme and reason of country life, Susan Fenimore Cooper. Library subject: Country life -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #74555.

The Song of Hiawatha, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Library subject: Indians of North America -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #19.

The Song of Hiawatha: An Epic Poem, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1898). Library subject: Indians of North America -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #30795.

The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch, R. C. Lehmann (1918). Project Gutenberg eBook #8433.

The Victories of Love, and Other Poems, Henry Morley. Library subject: Man-woman relationships -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #4009.

The White Wampum, E. Pauline Johnson. Library subject: Indians of North America -- Canada -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #52988.

Town and Country; Or, Life at Home and Abroad, Without and Within Us, John S. Adams (1855). Project Gutenberg eBook #4669.

Victorian Ode for Jubilee Day, 1897, Francis Thompson (1897). Library subject: Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, 1819-1901 -- Anniversaries, etc. -- Poetry. Project Gutenberg eBook #35922.

With the Colors Songs of the American Service, Everard Jack Appleton (1917). Project Gutenberg eBook #20072.

Collected works

A Child's Garden of Verses, Robert Louis Stevenson. Project Gutenberg eBook #136.

Actions and reactions, Rudyard Kipling. Project Gutenberg eBook #2381.

Amores: Poems, D. H. Lawrence (1916). Project Gutenberg eBook #22531.

An Essay on Man; Moral Essays and Satires, Henry Morley. Project Gutenberg eBook #2428.

Artemis to Actaeon, and Other Verses, Edith Wharton (1909). Project Gutenberg eBook #4549.

Black Beetles in Amber, Ambrose Bierce (1892). Project Gutenberg eBook #12977.

Dr. Johnson's Works: Life, Poems, and Tales, Volume 1 The Works of Samuel Johnson, LL.D., in Nine Volumes, Samuel Johnson (1825). Project Gutenberg eBook #10835.

John Marr and Other Poems, Herman Melville (1922). Project Gutenberg eBook #12841.

Kipling Stories and Poems Every Child Should Know, Book II, Rudyard Kipling. Project Gutenberg eBook #30568.

Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses, Thomas Hardy (1922). Project Gutenberg eBook #4758.

Michael Robartes and the dancer, W. B. Yeats (1920). Project Gutenberg eBook #72987.

New Poems, and Variant Readings, Robert Louis Stevenson (1918). Project Gutenberg eBook #441.

Poems, G. K. Chesterton (1916). Project Gutenberg eBook #31184.

Poems, Katherine Mansfield (1923). Project Gutenberg eBook #59276.

Poems 1817, John Keats (1817). Project Gutenberg eBook #8209.

Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series One, Emily Dickinson. Project Gutenberg eBook #2678.

Poems by Emily Dickinson, Series Two, Emily Dickinson. Project Gutenberg eBook #2679.

Poems by Emily Dickinson, Third Series, Mabel Loomis Todd. Project Gutenberg eBook #12241.

Poems Household Edition, Ralph Waldo Emerson. Project Gutenberg eBook #12843.

Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 1, William Wordsworth. Project Gutenberg eBook #8774.

Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 2, William Wordsworth. Project Gutenberg eBook #8824.

Poems of Coleridge, Arthur Symons. Project Gutenberg eBook #8208.

Poems of the Past and the Present, Thomas Hardy (1919). Project Gutenberg eBook #3168.

Poems of William Blake, William Blake. Project Gutenberg eBook #574.

Religious Poems, Harriet Beecher Stowe. Project Gutenberg eBook #44778.

Shapes of Clay, Ambrose Bierce (1903). Project Gutenberg eBook #12658.

Songs and lyrics of Robert Burns, Robert Burns. Project Gutenberg eBook #75462.

Songs from Books, Rudyard Kipling (1914). Project Gutenberg eBook #15529.

The Ballad of St. Barbara, and Other Verses, G. K. Chesterton (1922). Project Gutenberg eBook #32167.

The Collected Works in Verse and Prose of William Butler Yeats, Vol. 1 (of 8) Poems Lyrical and Narrative, W. B. Yeats. Project Gutenberg eBook #49608.

The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe Including Essays on Poetry, John Henry Ingram. Project Gutenberg eBook #10031.

The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Project Gutenberg eBook #1365.

The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley — Volume 2, Thomas Hutchinson (1914). Project Gutenberg eBook #4798.

The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2, Jonathan Swift (1910). Project Gutenberg eBook #13621.

The Poetical Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1, Alexander Pope. Project Gutenberg eBook #9413.

The Poetical Works of Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Volume 4, Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1890). Project Gutenberg eBook #31015.

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth — Volume 8 (of 8), William Angus Knight (1896). Project Gutenberg eBook #52836.

The Shepheard's Calender: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes, Edmund Spenser (1898). Project Gutenberg eBook #42607.

The tower, W. B. Yeats (1928). Project Gutenberg eBook #72985.

The Wild Knight and Other Poems, G. K. Chesterton (1900). Project Gutenberg eBook #12037.

The Wild Swans at Coole, W. B. Yeats. Project Gutenberg eBook #32491.

The Works of Aphra Behn, Volume VI, Montague Summers (1915). Project Gutenberg eBook #45777.

Time's Laughingstocks, and Other Verses, Thomas Hardy (1928). Project Gutenberg eBook #2997.

Wessex Poems and Other Verses, Thomas Hardy (1919). Project Gutenberg eBook #3167.

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