Genre
Poetry
57 works in this collection, sorted chronologically.
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The Epic of Gilgamesh
Anonymous · 2100 BC
The Iliad
Homer · 750 BC
The Odyssey
Homer · 725 BC
Theogony
Hesiod · 700 BC
Fragments/Poems
Sappho · 600 BC
Odes
Pindar · 475 BC
Dao De Jing
Laozi (attr.) · 400 BC
De Rerum Natura
Lucretius · 55 BC
Odes / Ars Poetica
Horace · 23 BC
The Aeneid
Virgil · 19 BC
Metamorphoses
Ovid · 8 AD
Consolation of Philosophy
Boethius · 524 AD
Beowulf
Anonymous · 750 AD
Shahnameh (The Persian Book of Kings)
Ferdowsi · 1010 AD
The Divine Comedy
Dante Alighieri · 1320 AD
Os Lusíadas (The Lusiads)
Luís de Camões · 1572 AD
Paradise Lost
John Milton · 1667 AD
Pensées
Blaise Pascal · 1670 AD
Faust (Parts I & II)
J.W. von Goethe · 1832 AD
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman · 1855 AD
The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire · 1857 AD
Mirèio (Mireille)
Frédéric Mistral · 1859 AD
Hymn to Satan / Poems
Giosuè Carducci · 1865 AD
Poems (Prudhomme: Stances et Poèmes)
Sully Prudhomme · 1865 AD
A Season in Hell / Illuminations
Arthur Rimbaud · 1873 AD
Human, All Too Human
Friedrich Nietzsche · 1878 AD
Thus Spoke Zarathustra
Friedrich Nietzsche · 1885 AD
Poems
Emily Dickinson · 1890 AD
Poems (Dickinson: Collected)
Emily Dickinson · 1890 AD
Poems (Selected)
Verner von Heidenstam · 1895 AD
Poems (Karlfeldt: Fridolins lustgård)
Erik Axel Karlfeldt · 1898 AD
Poems (Yeats: Collected)
W.B. Yeats · 1908 AD
Olympian Spring
Carl Spitteler · 1910 AD
Poems (Tagore: Gitanjali)
Rabindranath Tagore · 1912 AD
Platero and I / Selected Poems
Juan Ramón Jiménez · 1914 AD
Anabasis / Selected Poems
Saint-John Perse · 1924 AD
The Cantos
Ezra Pound · 1925 AD
The Book of Disquiet / Poetry of the Heteronyms
Fernando Pessoa · 1934 AD
Selected Poems
Salvatore Quasimodo · 1942 AD
Collected Poems
Gabriela Mistral · 1945 AD
Poems (Mistral: Selected)
Gabriela Mistral · 1945 AD
O the Chimneys / Selected Poems
Nelly Sachs · 1947 AD
Canto General
Pablo Neruda · 1950 AD
The Labyrinth of Solitude / Selected Poems
Octavio Paz · 1950 AD
Selected Poems (Tranströmer)
Tomas Tranströmer · 1954 AD
Aniara
Harry Martinson · 1956 AD
Collected Poems (Seferis)
Giorgos Seferis · 1961 AD
The Lyrics: 1961-2012
Bob Dylan · 1963 AD
Selected Poems (Seifert)
Jaroslav Seifert · 1967 AD
Collected Poems (Montale)
Eugenio Montale · 1975 AD
Collected Poems (Elytis)
Odysseas Elytis · 1979 AD
Collected Poems (Miłosz)
Czesław Miłosz · 1980 AD
Collected Poems (Brodsky)
Joseph Brodsky · 1987 AD
Omeros
Derek Walcott · 1990 AD
Selected Poems (Glück)
Louise Glück · 1992 AD
Collected Poems (Heaney)
Seamus Heaney · 1995 AD
Collected Poems (Szymborska)
Wisława Szymborska · 1996 AD
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