Identity & Self Poems
Explorations of selfhood, belonging, and personal experience.
284 poems in this category
Poems in Identity & Self
- I'm Nobody — by Emily Dickinson (1891)
- I'm Nobody! Who are you? — by Emily Dickinson (1891)
- Mending Wall — by Robert Frost (1914)
- Auguries of Innocence — by William Blake (1803)
- I Hear America Singing — by Walt Whitman
- Much madness is divinest sense — by Emily Dickinson
- Don Juan — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Endymion: Book IV — by John Keats
- Each Life Converges to some Centre -- — by Emily Dickinson
- Epistle to James Craggs, Esq., Secretary of State. — by Alexander Pope
- Epitaph. for One Who Would Not Be Buried in Westminster Abbey. — by Alexander Pope
- I am the poet of the Body and I am the poet of the Soul — by Walt Whitman
- No Romance sold unto — by Emily Dickinson
- A Lover's Quarrel. — by Rudyard Kipling (1903)
- A Poison Tree — by William Blake
- Away from Home are some and I -- — by Emily Dickinson
- CARMA — by Claude McKay (1923)
- Each And All — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
- Gareth And Lynette — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Good Name, A — by William Shakespeare
- I Sing the Body Electric. — by Walt Whitman
- Isabel — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
- Me Imperturbe — by Walt Whitman
- No Autumn's intercepting Chill — by Emily Dickinson
- A Poison Tree — by Robert Browning
- Foreign Children — by Robert Louis Stevenson
- I'm "wife" -- I've finished that — by Emily Dickinson
- Aurora Leigh (excerpts) — by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- BECKY — by Claude McKay (1923)
- Buried Life, The — by Matthew Arnold
- I Hear It Was Charged Against Me — by Walt Whitman
- My Father was a Farmer: A Ballad — by Robert Burns
- Brother of Ingots -- Ah Peru -- — by Emily Dickinson
- From Paumanok Starting. — by Walt Whitman
- Holy Sonnet V: I Am A Little World Made Cunningly — by John Donne
- I cannot dance upon my Toes — by Emily Dickinson
- I cried at Pity -- not at Pain -- — by Emily Dickinson
- Myself and Mine — by Walt Whitman
- Old Man — by Edward Thomas
- A Good Name — by William Shakespeare
- Epistle to Mrs. Scott of Wauchope House — by Robert Burns
- Happy Is England! I Could Be Content — by John Keats
- Hélas! — by Oscar Wilde (1881)
- I Would I Were a Careless Child — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Isabel — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
- Amoretti LXXIV: Most Happy Letters — by Edmund Spenser
- As I Sat Alone by Blue Ontario’s Shores. — by Walt Whitman
- Étienne De La Boéce — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
- Hertha — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
- I felt my life with both my hands — by Emily Dickinson
- I thought that nature was enough — by Emily Dickinson
- IX. Have you got a brook in your little heart — by Emily Dickinson
- Lob — by Edward Thomas
- Native Moments. — by Walt Whitman
- No Labor-Saving Machine — by Walt Whitman
- Duty — by Edwin Markham
- He put the Belt around my life — by Emily Dickinson
- Mine by the right of the white election! — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861)
- Mithridates — by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Nature and God -- I neither knew — by Emily Dickinson
- A Divine Image — by William Blake
- Ginevra — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Growth of Man -- like Growth of Nature -- — by Emily Dickinson
- Here the Frailest Leaves of Me — by Walt Whitman
- Hodge — by John Clare
- I Am — by John Clare
- Imitation — by Edgar Allan Poe
- IX. — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Merlin Ii — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
- A Prince's Interest — by Wilfred Owen
- Extract from the conclusion of a poem, composed in anticipation of leaving school — by William Wordsworth (1786)
- Farmer's Boy — by John Clare
- From The Ladies Defence — by Lady Mary Chudleigh
- From the Original Draft of the Poem to William Shelley — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Her spirit rose to such a height — by Emily Dickinson
- In Honour of that High and Mighty Princess, Queen ELIZABETH — by Anne Bradstreet
- In the Morning of Life — by Thomas Moore
- It would have starved a Gnat -- — by Emily Dickinson
- Locations and Times. — by Walt Whitman
- Loyalty — by Edward Taylor
- Merry Maid — by John Clare
- 5 — by Walt Whitman
- Ambition — by Edward Thomas
- As the Starved Maelstrom laps the Navies — by Emily Dickinson
- Charlotte - — by John Donne
- Fragment: 'Alas! This Is Not What I Thought Life Was' — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Fragment: 'And That I Walk Thus Proudly Crowned' — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Fragment: 'Methought I Was a Billow in the Crowd' — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Health — by Edward Thomas
- I Give Myself — by Walt Whitman
- Mother Mind — by Julia Ward Howe
- Ode for a Master Mariner Ashore — by Louise Imogen Guiney
- Adeline — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
- Ah, woe is me, my Mother dear — by Robert Burns
- Epilogue to "Asolando" — by Robert Browning
- Epistle I. To Sir Richard Temple, Lord Cobham — by Andrew Marvell
- Honour. — by Sara Teasdale (1791)
- Lad of Athens, faithful be — by Emily Dickinson
- Naughty Girl — by Robert Herrick
- A Farewell — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
- An Expostulation — by William Cowper
- Colomba — by William Blake
- Egotism. a Letter to J. T. Becher — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- El Loco — by Edgar Allan Poe
- Exclusion. — by Emily Dickinson
- ],title: — by Robert Herrick (2007)
- A Leaf for Hand in Hand — by Walt Whitman
- Borrowed Feathers — by Joseph Morris
- Cleon and I — by Charles Mackay
- Cui cum tetigere parentem — by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- De Sunflower Ain't de Daisy — by Anonymous
- Dubliners — by Robert Herrick (1914)
- Dum melior vires sanguis dabat — by Edna St. Vincent Millay
- For Him I Sing — by Walt Whitman
- Glunimies in a Glen — by Edward Fitzgerald
- Kingdom of Man, The — by John Kendrick Bangs
- Know Thyself — by Angela Morgan
- 10 — by Walt Whitman
- 35. — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 37. — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 4 — by Walt Whitman
- A Gothic Embrace — by Wilfred Owen
- A Legislator's Lack — by Wilfred Owen
- Addressed to a Young Man of Fortune [C. Lloyd]. — by Sara Teasdale (1796)
- aven — by Sara Teasdale (1791)
- El Sello — by Edgar Allan Poe
- He shall be endur'd — by John Milton
- Men Are Heaven's Piers — by Robert Louis Stevenson
- "It was wrong to do this," said the angel — by Stephen Crane
- ESTHER — by Claude McKay (1923)
- FACE — by Claude McKay (1923)
- Iago — by Walter de la Mare (null)
- Macbeth — by Walter de la Mare (null)
- No title — by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (null)
- On Journeys Through The States. — by Walt Whitman
- On Myselfe — by Anne Kingsmill Finch
- One’s-Self I Sing — by Walt Whitman
- Patience perforce — by John Milton
- Peggy's the Lady of the Hall — by John Clare
- Pelleas And Ettarre — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Perdita's Speech — by Robert Browning
- Po 21 — by Walt Whitman
- Po 24 — by Walt Whitman
- Poem — by Walt Whitman (1900)
- Poem 1 — by Oscar Wilde (2023)
- Poem 2 — by Oscar Wilde (2022)
- Prayer — by Henry David Thoreau
- Prince Athanase. a Fragment — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Rearrange a "Wife's" affection! — by Emily Dickinson
- RHOBERT — by Claude McKay (1923)
- Ritt-Master Dugald Dalgetty — by Edward Fitzgerald
- Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene I — by John Milton
- Salut au Monde. — by Walt Whitman
- Section 11 — by Walt Whitman
- Section 7 — by Walt Whitman
- Section 9 — by Walt Whitman
- SEVENTH STREET — by Claude McKay (1923)
- She's happy, with a new Content -- — by Emily Dickinson
- Shut Not Your Doors — by Walt Whitman
- Some Eyes Condemn — by Edward Thomas
- Song of Myself — by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Song of Myself — by Walt Whitman (1855)
- Song of Myself (1) — by Walt Whitman (1855)
- Song of Myself, 27 — by Walt Whitman
- Song of Myself, Section 2), 3), 4) — by Walt Whitman (1900)
- Song of Myself, Section 25 — by Walt Whitman
- Song of Myself, Section 3, 4, 5, 6 (partial) — by Walt Whitman
- Song of Myself, Section 4 — by Walt Whitman (1900)
- Song of Myself, Section 6 — by Walt Whitman (1900)
- Song of Myself, Section 8 — by Walt Whitman (1900)
- Song of Myself, Section 9 — by Walt Whitman (1900)
- Song of the Exposition, Section 1 — by Walt Whitman
- Song of the Exposition. — by Walt Whitman
- Song—Farewell to the Highlands — by Robert Burns
- Song—I hae a Wife o’ my Ain — by Robert Burns
- Songs Of Experience — by Robert Browning
- Sonnet 110: Alas! 'tis true, I have gone here and there — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 111: O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 121: 'Tis better to be vile than vile esteem'd — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 20 — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 29 — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 29: When in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 45 — by William Shakespeare (1609)
- Sonnet 62 — by William Shakespeare (1609)
- Sonnet 62: Sin of self-love possesseth all mine eye — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 69: Those parts of thee that the world's eye doth view — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 70: That thou art blam'd shall not be thy defect — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 94: They that have power to hurt, and will do none — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet I — by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Sonnet LXX — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet XLI: Having This Day My Horse — by Sir Philip Sidney
- Sonnet XXV: O Why Should Nature — by Michael Drayton
- Sonnets on Eminent Characters — by Sara Teasdale (1795)
- Starting from Paumanok. — by Walt Whitman
- Still I Rise — by Langston Hughes (1978)
- Still Though the One I Sing — by Walt Whitman
- Street Cries — by Sidney Lanier
- Survivals — by William Blake
- Sympathy — by Emma Lazarus
- That Girl's Clear Eyes — by Edward Thomas
- That Shadow My Likeness — by Walt Whitman
- The brain within its groove — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1862)
- The Bridge-Builders — by Rudyard Kipling (1903)
- The Buried Life — by Matthew Arnold
- The Child in the Orchard — by Edward Thomas
- The Cottager — by John Clare
- The Crowd — by Walt Whitman
- The Defence of Guenevere — by William Morris
- The Deformed Transformed: — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- The Education of Henry Adams — by William Butler Yeats (1905)
- The Furl of Fresh-Leaved Dogrose Down — by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- The Gipsy's Camp — by John Clare
- The Greatness of the Soul — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
- The Gypsy — by Edward Thomas
- The Haunted Palace — by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Knight's Defense — by Walt Whitman
- The Lament of Tasso — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- The laws of nature — by Oscar Wilde
- The Life Without Passion — by William Shakespeare
- The Little Black Boy — by William Blake
- The Little Black Boy — by Robert Browning
- The Little Black Boy — by Christina Rossetti (1789)
- The Little Blind Boy — by William Blake
- The Little Traveller — by William Cowper
- The Lout — by John Clare
- THE MARKET-PLACE — by Walter de la Mare (null)
- The Monarch's Guise — by Wilfred Owen
- The Negro Speaks of Rivers — by Langston Hughes (1921)
- The One — by Everard Jack Appleton
- The Other — by Edward Thomas
- The Peasant Poet — by John Clare
- The Prairie-Grass Dividing — by Walt Whitman
- The Prophecy of Dante — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- The Rose Family - Song II — by Louisa May Alcott
- The Savage — by Walt Whitman
- The Schoolboy — by William Blake
- The Sea said "Come" to the Brook -- — by Emily Dickinson
- The Self-seeker — by Robert Frost (1923)
- The Soul has Bandaged moments -- — by Emily Dickinson
- The Summary History of Sir William Wallace — by William Topaz McGonagall
- The Superhuman; or, The Man of Sorrows — by Amy Lowell
- The Task: Book II, The Time-Piece (excerpts) — by William Cowper
- The Thread of Life — by Christina Rossetti
- The Vicomte de Bragelonne — by Ella Wheeler Wilcox (1660)
- The Village Blacksmith — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1902)
- The world knows nothing of its greatest men — by Alfred Noyes (null)
- There was a Child went Forth. — by Walt Whitman
- They shut me up in Prose -- — by Emily Dickinson
- To a Historian — by Walt Whitman
- To E-- — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- TO EDMUND CLARENCE STEDMAN — by Francis Thompson (1909)
- To Foreign Lands — by Walt Whitman
- To George Anson Byron(?) — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- To George, Earl Delawarr — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- To My Own Minature Picture Taken At Two Years Of Age — by Robert Southey
- To the Versifier — by William Cullen Bryant (1912)
- To You — by Walt Whitman
- To—— — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
- Tom's Garland — by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1885)
- Trams and dusty trees — by John Keats
- Trickle Drops — by Walt Whitman (1855)
- Über den drei Verwandlungen — by Amy Lowell
- Ulysses — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Unfolded Out of the Folds. — by Walt Whitman
- V — by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Virtues and Talents — by Wilfred Owen
- Vita Nuova — by Oscar Wilde (1881)
- Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son — by Walt Whitman
- Walt Whitman. — by Walt Whitman
- Waring — by Robert Browning
- We grow accustomed to the Dark — by Emily Dickinson
- Were My Bosom As False As Thou Deem'st It to Be — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- What General has a Good Army. — by Walt Whitman
- When I Read the Book — by Walt Whitman
- When I Roved a Young Highlander — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Who goes there? hankering, gross, mystical, nude — by Walt Whitman
- Wlihead — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
- X. Transplanted. — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- XIV. Love's Baptism — by Emily Dickinson
- Xiv. Love's Baptism. — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- XVI. Apocalypse — by Emily Dickinson
- Xvi. Apocalypse. — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Xvii. — by Sidney Lanier
- Xxvi. — by Emily Dickinson