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