Beauty & Art Poems

Poems about aesthetic beauty, music, painting, and the creative process.

332 poems in this category

Poems in Beauty & Art

Ode On A Grecian Urn — by John Keats
Beauty -- be not caused -- It Is -- — by Emily Dickinson
Beauty crowds me till I die — by Emily Dickinson
Childe Harold's Pilgrimage, Canto the First — by John Donne (1812)
Endymion: Book I — by John Keats
Lycidas — by John Milton
My Last Duchess — by Robert Browning
A Thing of Beauty (Endymion) — by John Keats
At A Solemn Musick — by John Milton
Epistle to Miss Blount, With the Works of Voiture. — by Alexander Pope
Epistle to Mr Jervas, With Mr Dryden's Translation of Fresnoy's 'art of Painting.' — by Alexander Pope
Israfel — by Edgar Allan Poe
An Essay on Criticism. — by Alexander Pope
Andrea Del Sarto (Called "the Faultless Painter") — by Robert Browning
Estranged from Beauty -- none can be -- — by Emily Dickinson
Musicians wrestle everywhere — by Emily Dickinson
A Pretty Woman — by Robert Browning
Chaucer — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847)
A Musical Instrument — by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1855)
Balade — by Geoffrey Chaucer
Beauty and Beauty — by Rupert Brooke
I died for Beauty -- but was scarce — by Emily Dickinson
Interludes — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1875)
Lines on the Mermaid Tavern — by John Keats
Go not too near a House of Rose -- — by Emily Dickinson
Memorabilia — by Robert Browning
Merlin I — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
A Simple Tune — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
A Toccata of Galuppi's — by Robert Browning
Alexander's Feast; Or, The Power Of Music — by John Dryden
Another Fragment: To Music — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Beauty — by Edward Thomas
Elegy IX: The Autumnal — by John Donne
In A Library. — by Emily Dickinson
Music — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Music: An Ode — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Music's Empire — by Andrew Marvell
Ode to Beauty — by Edwin Arlington Robinson
A Book. — by Emily Dickinson
In Honour of the City of London — by William Dunbar
Letter to Maria Gisborne — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
London — by William Dunbar
Niobe in Distress — by Phillis Wheatley
Ode — by John Keats
A Calendar of Sonnets: April — by Helen Hunt Jackson
An Hymn In Honour Of Beauty — by Edmund Spenser
Ballade of Dead Actors — by William Ernest Henley
Daylight and Moonlight — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Democritus Junior Ad Librum Suum — by Thomas Gray (1621)
Democritus Junior To His Book — by Thomas Gray (1621)
Don Carlos — by John Donne
His Prayer To Ben Jonson — by Robert Herrick
Indications, The. — by Walt Whitman
Julia — by Sara Teasdale (1789)
Michael Angelo — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1867)
Ode on St Cecilia's Day, — by Alexander Pope
Ode To Beauty — by Ralph Waldo Emerson
On A Portrait Of Wordsworth — by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
A Hymn In Honour Of Beauty — by Edmund Spenser
Epitaph. on Sir Godfrey Kneller, in Westminster Abbey, 1723. — by Alexander Pope
Glass — by Anne Kingsmill Finch
Loss And Gain — by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Nature that Washed Her Hands in Milk — by Sir Walter Raleigh
A Face — by Robert Browning
A Flower-Piece By Fantin — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Fragment: To Music — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Abt Vogler: After he has been extemporizing upon the musical instrument of his invention — by Robert Browning
An Exhortation — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Decay — by John Clare
Epilogue — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Industry's Reward — by Wilfred Owen
Italian Music in Dakota. — by Walt Whitman
Letter in Verse — by John Clare
Lines on Hearing it Declared that No Women Were So Handsome as the English — by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Music. — by Sara Teasdale (1791)
Ode to the Memory of Burns — by Thomas Campbell
GUY — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
Farewell to the Muse — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Fragment: To Byron — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fragment: To One Singing — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fragment: To the Mind of Man — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fragment: To the Moon — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Life and Art — by Emma Lazarus
A Letter to a Live Poet — by Rupert Brooke
A Street Singer — by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better -- than Music! For I -- who heard it -- — by Emily Dickinson
Bloom -- is Result -- to meet a Flower — by Emily Dickinson
Cassiodorus's Verse — by Wilfred Owen
Dedication. — by Sidney Lanier (1817)
Fragment of an Ode to Nightingales — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Fragment: The False Laurel and the True — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
From Vergil's Tenth Eclogue — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
God Needs Antonio — by George Eliot
IV. — by Sidney Lanier (1816)
Nay, Lord, not thus! white lilies in the spring, — by Oscar Wilde
Notre-Dame D'amiens — by William Blake (1220)
Exaggerated Art — by William Blake
Address, Spoken at the Opening of Drury-Lane Theatre, Saturday, October 10, 1812 — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
An Occasional Prologue, — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Dying at my music! — by Emily Dickinson
Father Gerard Hopkins, S. J. — by Joyce Kilmer
Iron Bridges — by Robert Frost (1857)
Martial, Lib. I. Epig. I — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Music At The Villa Marina — by Robert Louis Stevenson
Aesthetic Poetry — by William Blake (1868)
An Address to the New Tay Bridge — by William Topaz McGonagall
Decade the First, X. — by Edgar Lee Masters (null)
Ferrari and Borgognone — by William Blake (1507)
Fragment: A Tale Untold — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fragment: Music and Sweet Poetry — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Hypolito's Observation — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
La Corona De Perejil — by Edgar Allan Poe
Music Magic — by Sir Edmund Leamy
A Sicilian Woman — by Robert Bland (1806)
Decade the First, I. — by Edgar Lee Masters (null)
Decade the First, II. — by Edgar Lee Masters (null)
Decade the First, III. — by Edgar Lee Masters (null)
Dream On — by Edward Taylor
Imitated from the Welsh. — by Sara Teasdale (1794)
Mérimée on Architecture — by William Blake (1917)
Mérimée's Historical Fiction — by William Blake (1917)
Mérimée's Literary Artistry — by William Blake (1853)
NULLO — by Claude McKay (1923)
Of Chemical Wonders — by Thomas Moore
Of Fire — by Thomas Moore
Of Gunpowder — by Thomas Moore
On first looking into Chapman's Homer — by Francis Thompson (1817)
On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer — by John Keats
On Imitation. — by Sara Teasdale (1791)
On Receiving A Curious Shell, And A Copy Of Verses, From The Same Ladies. — by Sidney Lanier
On the Bust of Helen by Canova — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
On the Medusa of Leonardo Da Vinci in the Florentine Gallery — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
one day of all my life. — by Rabindranath Tagore (null)
OPHELIA — by Walter de la Mare (null)
Orpheus with his Lute Made Trees — by William Shakespeare
Pain In Pleasure — by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Part I. Chapter I. Introductory. — by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
Part of the Ninth Ode of the Fourth Book. — by Alexander Pope
Pavia — by William Blake (1507)
Phèdre — by Lewis Carroll
Pity and Terror — by William Blake
Po 26 — by Walt Whitman
Poem extract — by Alfred Noyes (null)
Poems from 1799 — by Sara Teasdale (1799)
Poems from Tennyson's 1832 Volume — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1832)
Portia — by Lewis Carroll
Prologue to Mr Addison's Tragedy of Cato. — by Alexander Pope
PROLOGUE, TO PUBLIC READINGS AT A YOUNG GENTLEMEN\'S ACADEMY — by James Weldon Johnson (null)
Prologus — by Walt Whitman (1330)
Proud Music of The Storm. — by Walt Whitman
Railroad Construction — by Robert Frost (1909)
Romanino and Moretto of Brescia — by William Blake (1507)
Rose-Morals — by Sidney Lanier
Royal Edicts — by Wilfred Owen
Scene From 'tasso' — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sedge-Warblers — by Edward Thomas
Sewers Below — by Wilfred Owen
Siena — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
Simul Et Jucunda Et Idonea Dicere Vita — by Thomas Gray
Sing -- Sing -- Music Was Given — by Thomas Moore
Sleep And Poetry — by Sidney Lanier
So gay a Flower — by Emily Dickinson
Song for St Cecilia's Day, 1687 — by John Dryden (1687)
Song from The Silent Woman — by Ben Jonson
Song of the Broad-Axe. — by Walt Whitman
Song of the Exposition, Section 2 — by Walt Whitman
Song—The Charms of Lovely Davies — by Robert Burns
Song's Eternity — by John Clare
Songs of Innocence: Introduction — by William Blake
Sonnet — by Thomas Gray
Sonnet 100: Where art thou Muse that thou forget'st so long — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 101: O truant Muse what shall be thy amends — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 103: Alack! what poverty my Muse brings forth — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 106: When in the chronicle of wasted time — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 127: In the old age black was not counted fair — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 13 — by John Milton
Sonnet 17: Who will believe my verse in time to come — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 21 — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 21: So is it not with me as with that Muse — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 24 — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 38 — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 38: How can my muse want subject to invent — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 4 — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 53 — by William Shakespeare (1609)
Sonnet 54 — by William Shakespeare (1609)
Sonnet 54: O! how much more doth beauty beauteous seem — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 55 — by William Shakespeare (1609)
Sonnet 55: Not marble, nor the gilded monuments — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 6 — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 67: Ah! wherefore with infection should he live — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 68: Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 76: Why is my verse so barren of new pride — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 78: So oft have I invoked thee for my Muse — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 8 — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 8: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 82: I grant thou wert not married to my Muse — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 83: I never saw that you did painting need — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 84: Who is it that says most, which can say more — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 85: My tongue-tied Muse in manners holds her still — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet IV: Bright Star of Beauty — by Michael Drayton
Sonnet IX: As Other Men — by Michael Drayton
Sonnet LXVIII — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXXIX — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXXVI — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXXVIII — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet LXXX — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet On Approaching Italy — by Oscar Wilde (1881)
Sonnet to Byron — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Sonnet to Lake Leman — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Sonnet XLII: Some Men There Be — by Michael Drayton
Sonnet XLIX: Thou Leaden Brain — by Michael Drayton
Sonnet XLV: Muses, Which Sadly Sit — by Michael Drayton
Sonnet XXXI: Methinks I See — by Michael Drayton
Sonnet XXXIX: Some, When in Rhyme — by Michael Drayton
Sonnet--To Science — by Edgar Allan Poe
Sonnet. Inscribed to Her Grace the Duchess of Devonshire — by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Specimen Of An Induction To A Poem. — by Sidney Lanier (1817)
Split the Lark -- and you'll find the Music -- — by Emily Dickinson
Stanzas Written under an Oak in Windsor Forest — by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Stone Bridging — by Robert Frost (1857)
That Music Always Round Me. — by Walt Whitman
The Architect's Hand — by Wilfred Owen
The Arrow and the Song — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Bells — by Edgar Allan Poe
The Bird her punctual music brings — by Emily Dickinson
The Birth of Pleasure — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Building of the Ship — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Burns Statue — by William Topaz McGonagall
The Cathedral of Rheims — by Joyce Kilmer
The Definition of Beauty is — by Emily Dickinson
The Discontent. — by Anne Killigrew
The Emperor's Glove — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847)
The Eolian Harp. Composed at Clevedon, Somersetshire. [MS. R.] — by Sara Teasdale (1795)
The fascinating chill that music leaves — by Emily Dickinson
The Fisherman — by William Butler Yeats (1908)
The Flower — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Forge — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Glory — by Edward Thomas
The Golden Day — by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1885)
THE HAPPY ENCOUNTER — by Walter de la Mare (null)
The Harlot’s House — by Lewis Carroll
The Iron Clipper — by Ben Jonson
The Lily — by Robert Browning
THE MARBLE FAUN — by Rabindranath Tagore (null)
The Metallic Herd — by Wilfred Owen
The Mother of the Rose — by James M. Hayes
The One who could repeat the Summer day — by Emily Dickinson
The Palace of Art — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Palace of Night — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Park — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
The Piano — by Carl Sandburg (1916)
The Piazza Family and Romanino of Brescia — by William Blake (1507)
The Picture Of Little T.C. In A Prospect Of Flowers — by Andrew Marvell
The Poet — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
The Poet and His Songs — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1874)
The Poet's Mind — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
The Poet's Mind — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
The Poet's Plea — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
The Poet's Purpose — by Thomas Gray
The Princess (part 3) — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Progress of Poesy — by Thomas Gray
The Railway Bridge of the Silvery Tay — by William Topaz McGonagall
The Red Wheelbarrow (alternate first line) — by Carl Sandburg (1923)
The Road's Design — by Robert Frost (1857)
The Rose — by William Browne
The Rose. — by Sara Teasdale (1793)
The Same — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The Singers — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1848)
The Sonnet — by Paul Laurence Dunbar (1909)
The Spirit of Poetry — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1902)
The Statue of King Charles at Charing Cross — by Lionel Johnson
THE TIRED CUPID — by Walter de la Mare (null)
The Unknown — by Edward Thomas
The Witch of Atlas — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The words the happy say — by Emily Dickinson
Theocritus: A Villanelle — by Lewis Carroll
Those fair -- fictitious People — by Emily Dickinson
Title Page — by Sara Teasdale (1912)
To a Certain Cantatrice — by Walt Whitman
To a Friend [Charles Lamb] who had declared his intention of writing no more Poetry. — by Sara Teasdale (1796)
To a Knot of Ungenerous Critics — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
To a Locomotive in Winter. — by Walt Whitman
To Constantia, Singing — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Constantia: Stanzas 1 and 2 — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Fanny Ellsler — by Edmund Spenser (1841)
To Flush, My Dog — by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
To George Felton Mathew. — by Sidney Lanier (1815)
To His Lute — by W. Drummond
To Homer — by John Keats
To J.w. — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
To John Milton "From his honoured friend, William Davenant" — by John Clare
To Milton — by Oscar Wilde (1881)
To Mistress Margery Wentworth — by John Skelton
To Music — by Robert Herrick
To Music, To Becalm A Sweet Sick Youth — by Robert Herrick
To Music, To Becalm His Fever — by Robert Herrick
To Music: A Song — by Robert Herrick
TO My Lord Colrane, In Answer to his Complemental Verses sent me under the Name of CLEANOR — by Anne Killigrew
To My Patrons — by Lionel Johnson
To R. B. — by Gerard Manley Hopkins
To Schiller — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1826)
To see the Summer Sky — by Emily Dickinson
To Spenser — by Sidney Lanier
To tell the Beauty would decrease — by Emily Dickinson
To the Author of Poems [Joseph Cottle] published anonymously at Bristol in September 1795. — by Sara Teasdale (1795)
To the Hon^Ble^ M^Rs^ George Lamb — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
To The Memory Of My Beloved, The Author, Mr William Shakespeare, And What He Hath Left Us — by Ben Jonson
To the Rev. William J. Hort while teaching a Young Lady some Song-tunes on his Flute. — by Sara Teasdale (1795)
To the Reviewers — by James Weldon Johnson (1808)
To The River — by Edgar Allan Poe
To What Serves Mortal Beauty? — by Gerard Manley Hopkins
To Wordsworth — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Translation From Anacreon. Ode 1. to His Lyre — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Untitled — by Walter de la Mare (null)
Upon Mrs Eliz. Wheeler, Under The Name Ofamarillis — by Robert Herrick
Upon Roses — by Robert Herrick
Upon the saying that my VERSES were made by another. — by Anne Killigrew
Variation of the Song of the Moon — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Venice. a Fragment — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Verses on Painting — by Thomas Moore
Vézelay* — by William Blake
Victorian's Observation — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Walter Von Der Vogelweid — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
With Fielding's 'Amelia.' — by Sara Teasdale (1792)
Wooden Bridging — by Robert Frost (1857)
Words — by Edward Thomas
X. To Robert Southey of Baliol College, Oxford, Author of the 'Retrospect' and other Poems. — by Sara Teasdale (1794)
XI. _On first looking into Chapman's Homer._ — by Sidney Lanier
XI. To Richard Brinsley Sheridan, Esq. — by Sara Teasdale (1794)
XII. _On leaving some Friends at an early Hour._ — by Sidney Lanier
Xiv. Addressed To The Same. — by Sidney Lanier