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Lyric poetry

Shorter poems of feeling, praise, love and grief.

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The Canterbury TalesGeoffrey Chaucer · c. 1387-1400On 6 lists Samson AgonistesJohn Milton · 1671On 4 lists If Not, Winter: Fragments of SapphoSappho · c. 600 BCEOn 3 lists The BibleAnonymous · c. 1000 BCEOn 3 lists JobAnonymous · c. 6th c. BCEOn 3 lists SonnetsWilliam Shakespeare · 1609On 3 lists The Book of PsalmsAnonymous · c. 10th c. BCEOn 2 lists FragmentsThe Pre-Socratic Philosophers · c. 600-400 BCEOn 2 lists Troilus and CriseydeGeoffrey Chaucer · c. 1382-1386On 2 lists English Minor PoemsJohn Milton · 1629-1673On 2 lists An Essay on ManAlexander Pope · 1733-1734On 2 lists PoemsWilliam Wordsworth · 1798-1850On 2 lists PoemsJohn Keats · 1816-1820On 2 lists The Waste LandT. S. Eliot · 1922On 2 lists The Exaltation of InannaEnheduanna · c. 2300 BCEOn 1 list AmosThe Bible · c. 750 BCEOn 1 list IsaiahThe Bible · 8th c. BCEOn 1 list Tao Te ChingLaozi · c. 4th c. BCEOn 1 list EcloguesVirgil · c. 39 BCEOn 1 list GeorgicsVirgil · 29 BCEOn 1 list Odes and EpodesHorace · 30-13 BCEOn 1 list The Consolation of PhilosophyBoethius · 524On 1 list BodhicaryavataraShantideva · c. 700 CEOn 1 list The Lais of Marie de FranceMarie de France · c. 1160-1190On 1 list The Translator of DesiresIbn Arabi · c. 1215On 1 list The Poetic EddaAnonymous · c. 800On 1 list The New LifeDante Alighieri · c. 1293-1295On 1 list Traditional BalladsAnonymous · c. 1300-1700On 1 list EpithalamionEdmund Spenser · 1595On 1 list ProthalamionEdmund Spenser · 1596On 1 list PoemsJohn Donne · c. 1590On 1 list Selected WorksSor Juana Inés de la Cruz · 1680s-1691On 1 list An Essay on CriticismAlexander Pope · 1711On 1 list The Rape of the LockAlexander Pope · 1712On 1 list St. Matthew PassionJohann Sebastian Bach · 1727On 1 list The Vanity of Human WishesSamuel Johnson · 1749On 1 list Elegy Written in a Country ChurchyardThomas Gray · 1751On 1 list The Deserted VillageOliver Goldsmith · 1770On 1 list Poems and SongsRobert Burns · 1786-1796On 1 list Lyrical BalladsWilliam Wordsworth · 1798On 1 list The Rime of the Ancient MarinerSamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1798On 1 list The Prisoner of ChillonLord Byron · 1816On 1 list ManfredLord Byron · 1817On 1 list Romantic Poetry ReaderVarious authors · c. 1789-1832On 1 list AdonaisPercy Bysshe Shelley · 1821On 1 list PoemsSamuel Taylor Coleridge · 1796-1834On 1 list PoemsRobert Browning · 1842-1864On 1 list PoemsEdgar Allan Poe · 1827-1849On 1 list EvangelineHenry Wadsworth Longfellow · 1847On 1 list PoemsAlfred, Lord Tennyson · 1830-1889On 1 list Leaves of GrassWalt Whitman · 1855On 1 list Tristan and IsoldeRichard Wagner · 1857On 1 list PoemsMatthew Arnold · 1849-1867On 1 list Hymns of the Christian ChurchVarious authors · 1910On 1 list OmerosDerek Walcott · 1990On 1 list CitizenClaudia Rankine · 2014On 1 list