Solitude & Reflection Poems

Contemplative poems about solitude, silence, and inner life.

271 poems in this category

Poems in Solitude & Reflection

After Apple-Picking — by Robert Frost (1916)
Ode To A Nightingale. — by John Keats
A Servant to Servants — by Robert Frost (1916)
An Old Man's Winter Night — by Robert Frost (1923)
Good Hours — by Robert Frost
Great Streets of silence led away — by Emily Dickinson
Come Sleep, O Sleep! The Certain Knot Of Peace — by Sir Philip Sidney
I was in the darkness — by Stephen Crane
A Country Life:To His Brother, Mr Thomas Herrick — by Robert Herrick
Epistle to Davie, A Brother Poet — by Robert Burns
How still, how happy! — by Emily Bronte
I Wake And Feel The Fell Of Dark, Not Day — by Gerard Manley Hopkins
My Soul Is Dark — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
A Wind that rose — by Emily Dickinson
A Weary Soul — by William Butler Yeats (1872)
Celestial Music — by John Donne
For largest Woman's Hearth I knew — by Emily Dickinson
Good-Night — by Edward Thomas
Fears In Solitude — by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
A happy lip -- breaks sudden — by Emily Dickinson
A Summer Evening Churchyard — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Wall — by Robert Browning
A Wish. Written in Jesus Wood, Feb. 10, 1792. — by Sara Teasdale (1792)
Alastor: Or, the Spirit of Solitude — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Anon, anon: — by John Milton
Evening Melody — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
How Human Nature dotes — by Emily Dickinson
Night is Darkening Around Me, The — by Emily Bronte
Ghimmer Crag — by William Wordsworth (1800)
Granta. a Medley — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Loss And Gain — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Love and Solitude — by John Clare
Melancholy — by Edward Thomas
Ode to Despair — by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Oh Sumptuous moment — by Emily Dickinson
A Poet's Lament — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
Approaching Night — by John Clare
As I Ponder’d in Silence — by Walt Whitman
Content, To My Dearest Lucasia — by Katherine Philips
Despair — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
He is wise — by John Milton
I watched the Moon around the House — by Emily Dickinson
It Rains — by Edward Thomas
Le pauvre — by John Donne
Lines Written Among the Euganean Hills — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Oh! Think Not My Spirits Are Always As Light — by Thomas Moore
ALONE — by Walter de la Mare (null)
His Heart was darker than the starless night — by Emily Dickinson
If solitude hath ever led thy steps — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Inside the Coach. — by Sara Teasdale (1791)
Love's Hypocrisy — by Walt Whitman
ODE — by Sara Teasdale (1792)
Ode on Solitude. — by Alexander Pope
From A Traveling Diary — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1895)
A Door just opened on a street -- — by Emily Dickinson
A Gentle Thought — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
A Great City — by Ralph Waldo Emerson
A Retir'd Friendship — by Katherine Philips
Epistle to a Friend, — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Farewell to the Court — by Sir Walter Raleigh
Go then, for 'tis in vaine — by John Milton
Happy As The Day Is Long — by Edward Taylor
I saw no Way -- The Heavens were stitched — by Emily Dickinson
Idle Fame — by John Clare
II. — by Ben Jonson (1907)
Lullaby — by Alexander Montgomerie (1540)
Meditation under Stars — by George Meredith
Ode to Sleep — by Sara Teasdale (1791)
From "A Rhapsody" — by John Clare
Also sprach Zarathustra — by Amy Lowell (1883)
Angel Island — by Edward Lear (1912)
Ballad on Mr. Heron’s Election—No. 3 — by Robert Burns
Cadgwith — by Lionel Johnson
Exclusion. — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Fragment: 'I Stood upon a Heaven-Cleaving Turret' — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fragment: 'Such Hope, As Is the Sick Despair of Good' — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fragment: 'Ye Gentle Visitations of Calm Thought' — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
From Sunset to Star Rise — by Christina Rossetti
In Hilly-Wood — by John Clare
Lines Left Upon a Seat in a Yew-tree Which Stands Near the Lake of Esthwaite, on a Desolate Part of the Shore, Yet Commanding a Beautiful Prospect — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Of the Origin of Our Ideas — by Matthew Arnold
Fragment: 'The Viewless and Invisible Consequence' — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
As a Beam O'er the Face of the Waters May Glow — by Thomas Moore
Beginning My Studies — by Walt Whitman
Clan Alpin’s Vow — by Edward Fitzgerald (1811)
Common Things — by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Fragment: Thoughts Come and Go in Solitude — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
From The Flats. — by Sidney Lanier
Happy the Lab'rer — by Jane Austen
House and Man — by Edward Thomas
I Built Myself a House of Glass — by Edward Thomas
Los Gitanos — by Edgar Allan Poe
Hail! Childish Slave Of Social Rules — by Robert Louis Stevenson
A Fragment found in a Lecture-room. — by Sara Teasdale (1792)
Early One Morning — by Edward Thomas
IX. — by Sidney Lanier
My Lips Would Sing---- — by Sir Edmund Leamy
45. — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
46. — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
A Moment's Repose — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
Analysis Paralysis — by Robert Herrick
Beware of Medusa — by Walt Whitman (1400)
Boethius's Thought — by Wilfred Owen
Canto Ii — by William Wordsworth
Chapter Xi. — by Edward Fitzgerald
Corsica — by William Blake
Fragment: A Wanderer — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Fragment: Apostrophe to Silence — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Good Intentions — by St. Clair Adams
Impromptu, in Reply to a Friend — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
La Espina — by Edgar Allan Poe
Las Tres Viejas — by Edgar Allan Poe
Letter from J. Corbin — by George Herbert
38. — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
En El Arroyo — by Edgar Allan Poe
Mary Dow — by null
Actaeon and Diana — by Walt Whitman (1400)
Actaeon's Fate — by Walt Whitman (1400)
ELEGY THE FIRST THE SIMPLE LIFE — by Robert W. Service (1908)
ESTRANGED — by Walter de la Mare (null)
EVENING SONG — by Claude McKay (1923)
Expostulation And Reply — by William Wordsworth
Farewell — by Unknown (1605)
Fill the Goblet Again. a Song — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
I Am Afraid — by Vachel Lindsay (1923)
In a lonely place, — by Stephen Crane
Invocation To Sleep — by James Weldon Johnson (null)
Julian and Maddalo. a Conversation — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Juliet's Nurse — by Walter de la Mare (null)
Lines. Addressed to the Rev. J. T. Becher, on His Advising the Author to Mix More With Society — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
My Day is Done — by Rabindranath Tagore (1918)
OLD SUSAN — by Walter de la Mare (1914)
On Margate Sands — by John Keats
On Not Writing A Sermon, But On The Contrary, Of The Causes And Cures Of Melancholy. Bk. I. Sec. I. E. 1. — by Thomas Gray
On Retirement — by Philip Freneau
On Silence. — by Alexander Pope
On the Abstract Idea of a Triangle — by Matthew Arnold
On the Beach at Night, Alone. — by Walt Whitman
Pain -- expands the Time -- — by Emily Dickinson
Pain -- has an Element of Blank -- — by Emily Dickinson
Part IV — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Poem 4 — by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Poems from 1801 — by Sara Teasdale (1801)
Poems from 1802 — by Sara Teasdale (1802)
Quod sit, esse velit — by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Rain — by Edward Thomas
Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement. — by Sara Teasdale (1795)
Replenish’d — by Walt Whitman
Retirement — by William Cowper
Retirement — by Anne Bronte
Retirement — by Henry Vaughan
Romeo's Departure — by John Milton
Roused by the Shock — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Says. — by Walt Whitman
Scene II — by John Donne
Scenes From the Magico Prodigioso — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
SEA-MAGIC — by Walter de la Mare (null)
Sect. V. Of Relations. — by Matthew Arnold
Sect. Vi. Of Modes And Substances — by Matthew Arnold
Sect. Vii. Of Abstract Ideas. — by Matthew Arnold
Silence — by Edgar Allan Poe
Sleeping Out: Full Moon — by Rupert Brooke
Sola sapientia in se tota conversa est — by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Solitude — by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Song—Farewell to the Banks of Ayr — by Robert Burns
Song—Now Spring has clad the grove in green — by Robert Burns
Sonnet 125: Were't aught to me I bore the canopy — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 28 — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 28: How can I then return in happy plight — by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 71 — by S. Daniel (null)
Sonnet LXII: When First I Ended — by Michael Drayton
Sonnet XLIII: The Unhappy Exile — by Charlotte Smith
Sonnet XLIII: While From the Dizzy Precipice — by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Sonnet XLIV: Here Droops the Muse — by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Sonnet XLVI: Plain-Path'd Experience — by Michael Drayton
Sonnet XXVI: Where Antique Woods — by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Speak Of The North! A Lonely Moor — by Charlotte Bronte
Stanzas Written in Dejection, Near Naples — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Startled by his own thoughts he looked around. — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening — by Robert Frost (1923)
Subterranean Reminiscences — by Rabindranath Tagore (null)
Success Comes To Cow Creek — by Edward Taylor
Talk not to me of Summer Trees — by Emily Dickinson
The Adventure of the Bruce-Partington Plans — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1895)
The Alley. — by Alexander Pope
The Apology — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
The Belly and the Members — by William Shakespeare
The Blossing Of The Solitary Date-Tree — by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The brain within its groove — by Emily Dickinson
The Bridge — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1845)
The Church Porch — by Christina Rossetti (1862)
The Clerk's Tale — by Robert Herrick
The Corsair. — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
The Country Life: — by Robert Herrick
The Cross Roads; or, The Haymaker's Story — by John Clare
The Day Is Done — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Deserted Cottage — by Edwin Arlington Robinson
The Distant Shore — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
The Dream of Eugene Aram — by Thomas Hood
The Evening Walk — by William Wordsworth (1798)
The Excursion — by William Wordsworth (1814)
The Fear — by Robert Frost (1923)
The Frightened Ploughman — by John Clare
The heart asks pleasure first, — by Emily Dickinson
The Lake Isle of Innisfree — by William Butler Yeats (1890)
The Lantern Out of Doors — by Gerard Manley Hopkins (1877)
The Lime-tree Bower my Prison [Addressed to Charles Lamb, o — by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Lofty Sky — by Edward Thomas
The Lonely Dark — by Robert W. Service (1907)
The Lonely House. — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Lonely House. — by Emily Dickinson
The Lonely Soul — by Edward Lear (1880)
The Long Small Room — by Edward Thomas
The New House — by Edward Thomas
The New Year — by Edward Thomas
The Night is Darkening Around Me — by Emily Bronte
The Night Journey — by Rupert Brooke
The Outcast. — by Sara Teasdale (1794)
The Owl — by Edward Thomas
The Philosopher — by Edgar Lee Masters (1915)
The Poet — by Lord Alfred Tennyson (1830)
The Princess (part 4) — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Rain and the Wind — by William Ernest Henley
The Road was lit with Moon and star -- — by Emily Dickinson
The Sale of the Water-Lily — by Lydia Sigourney
THE SCARECROW — by Walter de la Mare (null)
The Scholar Gypsy — by Matthew Arnold
The Shepherd's Tree — by John Clare
The Silent Night — by Sara Teasdale (1869)
The Sleep of Spring — by John Clare
THE SLEEPER — by Walter de la Mare (1914)
The Solitary — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
The soul selects her own society, — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1861)
The Summer Rain — by Henry David Thoreau
The Sun is gay or stark — by Emily Dickinson
The Sun Used to Shine — by Edward Thomas
THE TAILOR — by Walter de la Mare (1914)
The Teacher's Monologue — by Charlotte Bronte
The Tiger of San Pedro — by Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Tournament — by Sidney Lanier
The Tramp — by John Clare
The Unknown Bird — by Edward Thomas
The Visit — by Ralph Waldo Emerson (1867)
The Weeds — by Carl Sandburg (1951)
The Wind Is Without There And Howls In The Trees — by Robert Louis Stevenson
The World's Wanderers — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
This is my letter to the world, — by Emily Dickinson
This Moment, Yearning and Thoughtful. — by Walt Whitman
Tiresias — by Algernon Charles Swinburne
To a Lady, on Being Asked My Reason for Quitting England in the Spring — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
To Edward Williams — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To Florence — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
To My Brother George. — by Sidney Lanier
To T. L. H. — by Sidney Lanier (1816)
To the Countess of Blessington — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
To the Moon — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
To the Moonbeam — by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Translation From Anacreon. Ode 3 — by George Gordon, Lord Byron
Two young men came down the hill of Rutland Square — by Robert Herrick
Undue Significance a starving man attaches — by Emily Dickinson
Upon the Priory Grove, His Usual Retirement — by Henry Vaughan
Upon the road of my life — by Stephen Crane
Vii. — by Sidney Lanier (1816)
VOICES — by Walter de la Mare (null)
Which is the best -- the Moon or the Crescent? — by Emily Dickinson
Why Cannot the Ear Be Closed? — by Robert Browning
Within the Circuit of This Plodding Life — by Henry David Thoreau
Work Without Hope — by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
XII. Psalm of the Day — by Emily Dickinson
Xii. Psalm Of The Day. — by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Zarathustra’s Vorrede — by Amy Lowell