Life & Death Poems
Reflections on mortality, the meaning of life, and the passage of time.
447 poems in this category
Poems in Life & Death
- Because I could not stop for Death — by Emily Dickinson (1863)
- Fire and Ice — by Robert Frost (1923)
- Hamlet's Soliloquy: To be or not to be — by William Shakespeare
- Crabbed Age and Youth — by William Shakespeare (1599)
- Holy Sonnet X: Death Be Not Proud — by John Donne
- A Sea Dirge — by William Shakespeare
- Crossing the Bar — by William Butler Yeats (1889)
- Fidele — by William Shakespeare
- I felt a Funeral, in my Brain — by Emily Dickinson (1861)
- I felt a Funeral, in my Brain, — by Emily Dickinson
- In Memoriam 82: I Wage Not Any Feud With Death — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
- In Memoriam A. H. H.: 82. I wage not any feud with death — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Memoriam A. H. H.: 44. How fares it with the happy dead? — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
- A chilly Peace infests the Grass — by Emily Dickinson
- A Death blow is a Life blow to Some — by Emily Dickinson
- An Essay on Man — by Alexander Pope
- Before the Birth of One of Her Children — by Anne Bradstreet
- Character of a Happy Life — by Sir Henry Wotton
- Death is a Dialogue between — by Emily Dickinson
- Epitaph. Intended for Sir Isaac Newton, in Westminster Abbey. — by Alexander Pope
- Hyperion — by John Keats
- I had no time to hate, because — by Emily Dickinson
- In this decayed hole among the mountains — by John Keats
- Manfred: A Dramatic Poem — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Death By Water — by John Keats
- For Annie — by Edgar Allan Poe
- It Is Not Growing Like A Tree — by Ben Jonson
- Lament for the Makers — by Anonymous (15th Cent.)
- A Song for Occupations — by Walt Whitman
- A wounded deer leaps highest, — by Emily Dickinson
- Death And Birth — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
- First Anniversary — by Andrew Marvell
- If I should cease to bring a Rose — by Emily Dickinson
- Madrigal — by W. Drummond
- Mutability — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- 'Twas just this time, last year, I died. — by Emily Dickinson
- "All Is Vanity, Saith the Preacher" — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- A Sea Dirge — by William Shakespeare (null)
- Compensation — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
- For Death -- or rather — by Emily Dickinson
- Geraint And Enid — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Holy Sonnet I: Tho Has Made Me — by John Donne
- Holy Sonnet VI: This Is My Play's Last Scene, Here Heavens Appoint — by John Donne
- How much the present moment means — by Emily Dickinson
- In this short Life — by Emily Dickinson
- Lights Out — by Edward Thomas
- Lines Written on Hearing the News of the Death of Napoleon — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Nature — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Of Life to own -- — by Emily Dickinson
- Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances — by Walt Whitman (1855)
- A Grammarian's Funeral : Shortly After the Revival of Learning in Europe — by Robert Browning
- A Madrigal — by William Shakespeare (1609)
- Death, To The Dead For Evermore — by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Eidolons — by Walt Whitman
- Manhattan Streets I Saunter’d, Pondering. — by Walt Whitman
- By homely gift and hindered Words — by Emily Dickinson
- Full Fathom Five — by Robert Browning
- Full fathom five thy father lies — by Robert Browning
- Love and Death — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
- A Farewell to the World — by Ben Jonson
- All but Death, can be Adjusted -- — by Emily Dickinson
- Apparent Failure — by Robert Browning
- Blowing Bubbles — by Hannah F. Gould (1853)
- God’s-Acre — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1902)
- Iv. Death By Water — by John Keats
- Morituri Salutamus: Poem for the Fiftieth Anniversary — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Mycerinus — by Matthew Arnold
- Of Experience (Epigraph) — by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1877)
- A Ballad of Burdens — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
- As the Time Draws Nigh. — by Walt Whitman
- Away With Funeral Music — by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Confessions — by Robert Browning
- Death — by James Henry Leigh Hunt
- Death — by Thomas Hood
- Digging — by Edward Thomas
- Elysium is as far as to — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861)
- Happiness. — by Sara Teasdale (1791)
- His Age:Dedicated To His Peculiar Friend,Mr John Wickes, Under The Name Ofpostumus — by Robert Herrick
- How far is it to Heaven? — by Emily Dickinson
- I had no time to Hate — by Emily Dickinson
- I had no time to hate, because — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861)
- Inscription to Chloris — by Robert Burns
- Louis Napoleon — by Oscar Wilde (1881)
- Midsummer, was it, when They died -- — by Emily Dickinson
- O Gather Me the Rose — by William Ernest Henley
- 'Twas a long Parting -- but the time — by Emily Dickinson
- Ages and Ages Returning at Intervals — by Walt Whitman
- An Allegory — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- ANATOMY — by Walter de la Mare (null)
- Circumstance — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
- Death — by Helen Hunt Jackson
- Epitaph. on General Henry Withers, in Westminster Abbey, 1729. — by Alexander Pope
- Epitaph. on Mr Elijah Fenton, at Easthamstead, in Berks, 1730. — by Alexander Pope
- Good-Bye — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
- Having Done and Doing — by William Shakespeare
- In The Green And Gallant Spring — by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Later Versions of the Poem — by William Butler Yeats (1559)
- Lines — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
- Madam Life's a Piece in Bloom — by William Ernest Henley
- O, to feel a life of deed — by Sydney Dobell
- Ah Sunflower — by Robert Browning
- An Epitaph upon Husband and Wife — by Richard Crashaw
- Birth And Death — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Concord — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Could that sweet Darkness where they dwell — by Emily Dickinson
- Epitaph. on Sir William Trumbull. — by Alexander Pope
- Farewell — by Robert Louis Stevenson
- Fragment — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Her final Summer was it -- — by Emily Dickinson
- Her Sweet turn to leave the Homestead — by Emily Dickinson
- HERODIAS Daughter presenting to her Mother St. JOHN's Head in a Charger, also Painted by her self — by Anne Killigrew
- I noticed People disappeared — by Emily Dickinson
- I. New Feet — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- I'm sorry for the Dead -- Today -- — by Emily Dickinson
- It can't be "Summer"! — by Emily Dickinson
- Life — by George Herbert
- Life's Tragedy — by Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Lines Inscribed upon a Cup Formed From a Skull — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- My wheel is in the dark! — by Emily Dickinson
- A Farewell — by Charles Kingsley
- A Farewell — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
- A Farewell Glance — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
- Between the form of Life and Life — by Emily Dickinson
- Death — by John Clare
- Devonshire Roads. — by Sara Teasdale (1791)
- Epitaph. on Mrs Corbet, Who Died of a Cancer in Her Breast. — by Alexander Pope
- fragment — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
- Fragment, or the Triumph of Conscience — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Fragment: 'When a Lover Clasps His Fairest' — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Ghasta or, the Avenging Demon!!! — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Head and Bottle — by Edward Thomas
- Human Life’s Mystery — by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Life — by Sir Walter Raleigh
- Lorraine — by Charles Kingsley
- A Dialogue — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- A little Snow was here and there — by Emily Dickinson
- A Part of an Ode — by Ben Jonson
- Beginners — by Walt Whitman
- Birthday of but a single pang — by Emily Dickinson
- Daniel's Vision — by Walt Whitman
- Did life's penurious length — by Emily Dickinson
- Double Ballade on the Nothingness of Things — by William Ernest Henley
- Earth's Eternity — by John Clare
- Epitaph — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Epitaphium — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Fragment: Omens — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Fragment: Sufficient Unto the Day — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Fragment: The Vine-Shroud — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Invitation to Eternity — by John Clare
- Love and Life — by John Wilmot
- Of That High World — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- A LETTER TO A Gentleman in the Country, FROM His Friend in LONDON: Giving an Authentick and circumstantial Account of the Confinement, Behaviour, and Death of ADMIRAL BYNG, As attested by the Gentlemen who were present. — by Carl Sandburg (1757)
- An Epitaph — by Stephen Hawes
- Churchill's Grave, a Fact Literally Rendered — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Do People moulder equally, — by Emily Dickinson
- Earth's Answer — by Robert Browning
- Euthanasia — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Hymn To Death — by William Cullen Bryant
- Inferno, Canto VII — by William Wordsworth
- Inferno, Canto XI — by William Wordsworth
- Lain in Nature -- so suffice us — by Emily Dickinson
- Life's Progress — by Anne Kingsmill Finch
- My Epitaph — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Chapter IV. — by Christina Rossetti
- A Tale of the Sea — by William Topaz McGonagall
- A Verse on Railroads — by Robert Frost (1857)
- Adrian's Address to His Soul When Dying — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- After the Race — by Robert Herrick
- As You Like It: Act II, Scene VII — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1623)
- Aves — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Canto I — by William Wordsworth
- Canto Iii — by William Wordsworth
- Ffor erth gos in erth walkand in vede — by William Butler Yeats
- First to the erthe I bequethe his parte — by William Butler Yeats
- Fragment: Life Rounded With Sleep — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- From the Portuguese. "Tu MI Chamas" — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Infant Sorrow — by Christina Rossetti (1789)
- Jordan's Flood — by Alice Meynell
- Life Is The Body's Light — by Robert Herrick
- Lost in the Prairie — by William Topaz McGonagall
- 29. — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- A Minor Poet — by Amy Levy
- Abu midjan — by Eugene Field
- Ah Sunflower — by William Blake
- Coming events cast their shadows before. — by Edward Fitzgerald
- Death — by Emily Bronte
- Decade the First, IV. — by Edgar Lee Masters (null)
- Decade the First, IX. — by Edgar Lee Masters (null)
- Dedication. — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Dura Navis — by Sara Teasdale
- Erthe owte of erthe is wonderly wrowghte — by William Butler Yeats
- Erþ geþ on erþ wrikkend in weden — by William Butler Yeats
- Erþe toc of erþe erþe wyþ woh — by William Butler Yeats
- History Of The Decline And Fall Of The Roman Empire — by Wilfred Owen (1782)
- ODE — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
- "WHERE IS THY VICTORY?" — by Walter de la Mare (null)
- Estienne de la Boetie — by Edna St. Vincent Millay (1877)
- EVEN IN THE GRAVE — by Walter de la Mare (null)
- Fabien Dei Franchi — by Lewis Carroll
- Fidele — by William Shakespeare (null)
- Fortune and Virtue — by Thomas Gray
- God lay dead in heaven — by Stephen Crane
- Human Life — by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Lament for the Makers — by William Dunbar (1465-1520?)
- On Death — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- On His Eightieth Birthday — by Walter Savage Landor
- On His Seventy-fifth Birthday — by Walter Savage Landor
- On My Birthday, July 21 — by Matthew Prior
- On My Thirty-Third Birthday — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- On Receiving A Curious Shell, And A Copy Of Verses, — by Sidney Lanier
- On the Dark Height of Jura — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- On This Day I Complete My Thirty-Sixth Year — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Our journey had advanced -- — by Emily Dickinson
- Our share of night to bear — by Emily Dickinson
- Ozymandias — by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1818)
- Pain has but one Acquaintance — by Emily Dickinson
- Poem of Joys. — by Walt Whitman
- Poems from Tennyson's 1842 Volume — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1842)
- Polonius's Advice to Laertes — by William Shakespeare
- Prospice — by Robert Browning
- Ravenna's Walls — by Wilfred Owen
- Revolutions — by William Shakespeare
- Romeo's Foreboding — by John Milton
- Rouge Et Noir — by Emily Dickinson
- Rouge Et Noir. — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Said Death to Passion — by Emily Dickinson
- Satire IV. — by Alexander Pope
- Saul — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Savantism — by Walt Whitman
- Scène VII. - Don Juan, Sganarelle. — by John Donne
- Section 10 — by Walt Whitman
- She rose as high as His Occasion — by Emily Dickinson
- She sped as Petals of a Rose — by Emily Dickinson
- Simon Lee, The Old Huntsman, With An Incident In Which He Was Concerned. — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- So lyf shal lyf lete ther lyf hath lyf anyented — by William Butler Yeats
- So We'll Go No More a-Roving — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Solitude — by Emily Dickinson
- Solitude — by null
- Some things that fly there be, — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861)
- Song From the Wandering Jew — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Song of Myself, 19 — by Walt Whitman
- Song—The Winter of Life — by Robert Burns
- Sonnet — by William Drummond
- Sonnet — by Rupert Brooke
- Sonnet 1 — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 1: From fairest creatures we desire increase — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 11: As fast as thou shalt wane, so fast thou grow'st — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 123: No, Time, thou shalt not boast that I do change — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 126: O thou, my lovely boy, who in thy power — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 129: The expense of spirit in a waste of shame — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 13: O! that you were your self; but, love you are — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 15 — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 15: When I consider every thing that grows — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 2: When forty winters shall besiege thy brow — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 28 — by William Shakespeare (1609)
- Sonnet 30 — by William Shakespeare (null)
- Sonnet 32: If thou survive my well-contented day — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 4: Unthrifty loveliness, why dost thou spend — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 6: Then let not winter's ragged hand deface — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 60 — by William Shakespeare (1609)
- Sonnet 60: Like as the waves make towards the pebbled shore — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 64 — by William Shakespeare (1609)
- Sonnet 65: Since brass, nor stone, nor earth, nor boundless sea — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 7: Lo! in the orient when the gracious light — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 73: That time of year thou mayst in me behold — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 77: Thy glass will show thee how thy beauties wear — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet I: Like an Advent'rous Seafarer — by Michael Drayton
- Sonnet LXXIII — by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet XXXVII: When, in the Gloomy Mansion — by Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Sonnet: Oh! Death will find me, long before I tire — by Rupert Brooke
- Souls And Rain-Drops — by Sidney Lanier
- Spirit of Plato — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Spirits Of The Dead — by Edgar Allan Poe
- Spring & Fall: To A Young Child — by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Stanzas to the Rose — by Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Substitute for an Epitaph — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Success is counted sweetest — by Emily Dickinson
- Such, Such Is Death — by Charles Sorley
- Summer is shorter than any one -- — by Emily Dickinson
- Suspense -- is Hostiler than Death -- — by Emily Dickinson
- Tam o' Shanter — by Christina Rossetti (1796)
- Tamerlane — by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Abyss — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
- The Adieu. Written Under the Impression That the Author Would Soon Die — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- The Argument — by Edgar Lee Masters (null)
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol — by Lewis Carroll (1898)
- The Ballad Of Reading Gaol — by Oscar Wilde
- The Beleaguered City — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1902)
- THE BELLS — by Walter de la Mare (null)
- The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed's Church (Rome, 15--) — by Robert Browning
- The Blind Girl — by William Topaz McGonagall
- The Bludy Serk — by William Dunbar (1490)
- THE BOOK of THEL — by Robert Browning (1780)
- The Book of Thel. Part I — by William Blake
- The Book of Thel. Part II — by William Blake
- The Book of Thel. Part III — by William Blake
- The Book of Thel. Part IV — by William Blake
- The Bridge — by Rudyard Kipling
- The Burial Of The Dead — by John Keats
- The Burning of the People's Variety Theatre, Aberdeen — by William Topaz McGonagall
- The Butterfly in honored Dust — by Emily Dickinson
- The Canterbury Tales. The Doctor's Tale. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Canterbury Tales. The Franklin's Tale. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Canterbury Tales. The Knight's Tale. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Canterbury Tales. The Nun's Priest's Tale. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Canterbury Tales. The Pardoner's Tale. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Canterbury Tales. The Prioress's Tale. — by Geoffrey Chaucer
- The Celestial Surgeon — by Robert Louis Stevenson
- The Cenci. a Tragedy in Five Acts — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The chatter of a death-demon from a tree-top — by Stephen Crane
- The City In The Sea — by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Clock’s Song — by Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
- The Conqueror Worm — by Edgar Allan Poe
- The Cremation of Sam McGee — by Robert W. Service (1907)
- The Dark Angel — by Lionel Johnson
- The Day's Ration — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
- The Death of Goliath — by Walter de la Mare (null)
- The Death of Nicou — by Thomas Chatterton
- The Deserted House — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
- The Deserted House — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
- The Disappointed — by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- The Divine Comedy, Inferno, Canto III — by William Wordsworth
- The Dream Called Life — by Edward Fitzgerald
- The Dying Child — by John Clare
- The Eleventh Book of the Odyssey — by William Wordsworth
- The Entangled Fly — by William Cowper
- The Execution of James Graham, Marquis of Montrose — by William Topaz McGonagall
- The Fading Rose — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
- The Falling Leaf — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
- The Fate of Rome — by Wilfred Owen
- The First Anniversary Of The Government Under O.C. — by Andrew Marvell
- The first Day that I was a Life — by Emily Dickinson
- The Five Wits — by Walt Whitman (1400)
- The Fly — by William Blake
- The Fly — by Robert Browning
- The Four Ages of Man — by Anne Bradstreet
- The Frost of Death was on the Pane -- — by Emily Dickinson
- The Gallows — by Edward Thomas
- The Garden of Proserpine — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
- The Goblet of Life — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Grave — by Anonymous
- The Grave-Yard — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847)
- The Jewish Cemetery at Newport — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Last Conqueror — by J. Shirley
- The Last Man — by Amy Lowell
- The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo — by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1882)
- The Life Beyond — by Rupert Brooke
- The Life we have is very great. — by Emily Dickinson
- The Life Without Passion — by Anonymous (1600)
- The Loom of Years — by Alfred Noyes (1913)
- The Lover’s New Come from the Battle — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
- The Marcilian Fair — by Wilfred Owen
- The Mastodon — by Edgar Lee Masters (1915)
- The Means to attain Happy Life — by Nicholas Grimald
- The meeting point of two highways — by William Wordsworth (1805)
- The Miseries of Man — by Anne Killigrew
- The Mountain Chapel — by Edward Thomas
- The Mystery Of Pain. — by Emily Dickinson
- The Night Has Been Unlucky — by Christina Rossetti (1913)
- The Old Woman of Berkeley — by Robert Southey
- The Profit's Guess — by Robert Frost (1857)
- The Reaper and the Flowers — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Regulations Act — by Lewis Carroll
- The River of Life — by Thomas Campbell
- The Road Not Taken — by Robert Frost (1916)
- The Road Not Taken — by Robert Frost (1916)
- The Ropewalk — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1849)
- The Rose did caper on her cheek — by Emily Dickinson
- The Sad Day — by Thomas Flatman
- The Secret. — by Emily Dickinson
- The Sick Rose — by Robert Browning
- The Skeleton in Armor — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1902)
- The Song of Death — by Robert Burns
- The Song of Life — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847)
- The Spell Is Broke, the Charm Is Flown! — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- The successful man has thrust himself — by Stephen Crane
- The Suicide's Argument — by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Sunset — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1878)
- The Tombs in Westminster Abbey — by F. Beaumont
- The trees in the garden rained flowers. — by Stephen Crane
- The Triumph of Life — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Two Spirits: An Allegory — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Vanities of Life — by John Clare
- The Village Song — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Waste Land — by John Keats
- The Wreck of the Hesperus — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1902)
- Thel — by Robert Browning
- Theodoric's Ascention — by Wilfred Owen
- There was a man and a woman — by Stephen Crane
- There was a man who lived a life of fire — by Stephen Crane
- This is the place they hoped before, — by Emily Dickinson
- This Life Is All Chequer'd With Pleasures and Woes — by Thomas Moore
- This World's Joy — by Anonymous (c. 1300)
- Three times -- we parted -- Breath -- and I -- — by Emily Dickinson
- Time And Life — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Title_missing — by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- To A Gentlewoman, Objecting To Him Hisgray Hairs — by Robert Herrick
- To a Young Child — by Gerard Manley Hopkins
- To Death — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- To Dives. a Fragment — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- To Enjoy The Time — by Robert Herrick
- To Fortune. — by Sara Teasdale (1793)
- To his Girls — by Robert Herrick
- To His Kinswoman, Mistress Susanna Herrick — by Robert Herrick
- To Mr Thomas Southern, on His Birthday, 1742. — by Alexander Pope
- To Stella — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time — by Robert Herrick
- To Think of Time. — by Walt Whitman
- To Time — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- To Tirzah — by William Blake
- To Virgins, to Make Much of Time — by Robert Herrick
- Translation — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Translation From Horace — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Translation From the "Medea" of Euripides — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Translation of the Epitaph on Virgil and Tibullus, by Domitius Marsus — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Unnamed Poem 1 — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Untitled Poem on Impermanence — by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift — by Jonathan Swift
- Victoria — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- VIII. When Air's pure essence joins the vital flood — by Thomas Moore
- Water makes many Beds — by Emily Dickinson
- Water, is taught by thirst. — by Emily Dickinson
- We Are Seven — by William Wordsworth
- We Are Seven — by George Gordon, Lord Byron (1798)
- We thirst at first -- 'tis Nature's Act -- — by Emily Dickinson
- Weariness — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1847)
- Weave in, Weave in, My Hardy Life. — by Walt Whitman
- Webster, The White Devil — by John Keats
- Whan erthe hath erthe i-gette — by William Butler Yeats
- What is Life? — by John Clare
- What Is Life? — by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- What The Thunder Said — by John Keats
- What Will They Do? — by Edward Thomas
- When Coldness Wraps This Suffering Clay — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
- Where is the Gentleman? — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Whether my bark went down at sea, — by Emily Dickinson
- Winter Stores — by Charlotte Bronte
- Worldes Joie — by Anonymous (c. 1300)
- Xvi. Presentiment. — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Xxi. The First Lesson. — by Emily Dickinson (1862)
- Xxii. — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Xxiii. — by Emily Dickinson (1862)
- Xxiv. — by Emily Dickinson
- Xxv. Dying. — by Emily Dickinson (1862)
- Xxvii. The Chariot. — by Emily Dickinson (1862)
- Youth, Day, Old Age and Night — by Walt Whitman (1900)