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