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Poetry: Public-Domain Books

37 popular free books on the “Poetry” shelf.

The Odyssey Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the Homer · 117,338 words The Complete Works of William Shakespeare William Shakespeare · 908,104 words The Lady of the Lake Walter Scott · 77,293 words Erotica Romana Johann Wolfgang von Goethe · 7,129 words The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 Burton Egbert Stevenson · 158,084 words Sonnets from the Portuguese Elizabeth Barrett Browning India's Love Lyrics Laurence Hope · 23,180 words The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 Edgar Allan Poe · 93,706 words Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight An Alliterative Romance-Poem (c. 1360 A.D.) 37,047 words Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight An Alliterative Romance-Poem (c. 1360 A.D.) 37,047 words I. Bēowulf: an Anglo-Saxon poem. II. The fight at Finnsburh: a fragment. 158,065 words Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 — Boethius and Troilus Geoffrey, 1343?-1400 Chaucer · 219,196 words The Iliad Homer · 184,274 words Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem 43,893 words Beowulf: An Anglo-Saxon Epic Poem 43,893 words The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII Ovid · 127,794 words Paradise Lost John Milton · 74,522 words Paradise Lost John Milton · 74,522 words The Aeneid Virgil · 118,921 words The Aeneid Virgil · 118,921 words Don Juan George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron · 124,278 words The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition Table Of Contents And Index Of T Edgar Allan Poe · 476,033 words Songs of Innocence and of Experience William Blake · 5,567 words The Ballad of the White Horse G. K. Chesterton · 20,553 words Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell Dante Alighieri · 35,263 words The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno Dante Alighieri · 113,641 words The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems Geoffrey, 1343?-1400 Chaucer · 287,325 words Childe Harold's Pilgrimage George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron · 38,999 words Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica Hesiod · 88,864 words Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I Edmund, 1552?-1599 Spenser · 81,749 words Shakespeare's Sonnets William Shakespeare · 13,567 words Poems and Songs of Robert Burns Robert Burns · 143,738 words The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron · 185,718 words The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 George Gordon Byron, Baron Byron · 185,718 words The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius Literally translated int Juvenal · 257,771 words Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Tre Geoffrey, 1343?-1400 Chaucer · 228,667 words The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1 Poetry - Volume 1 Alexander Pope · 199,168 words