The 50 Best Poetry Books of 2024

Top 50 Free Poetry Books - April 2024

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair Pablo Neruda (2021)

Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair is a collection of poems which was originally written in Spanish language by Chilean poet ...

La Divina Commedia Dante Alighieri (1473)

L’opera per eccellenza. Il componimento sul quale si fonda l’intero impianto linguistico e letterario italiano. Ma anche un’elevat...

The Aeneid Virgil & John Dryden (2021)

Virgil’s epic poem begins with Aeneas fleeing the ruins of Troy with his father Anchises and his young son Ascanius, with a plan t...

Paradise Lost John Milton (2019)

Paradise Lost is an epic poem written by the Puritan English poet John Milton between 1658 and 1663, and published in 1667. This i...

Paradise Lost John Milton (2010)

"Paradise Lost". In addition to its imaginative use of language, the poem features a powerful and sympathetic portrait o...

The Divine Comedy Dante Alighieri (1554)

The poem describes Dante's travels through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven but at a deeper level, it represents,&#xa...

Beowulf Anonymous & Francis Barton Gummere (2017)

Beowulf is an Old English epic poem consisting of 3,182 alliterative lines. It may be the oldest surviving long poem in Old Englis...

Collected Poems of William Wordsworth William Wordsworth & Neil Azevedo (2015)

William Wordsworth, 1770 – 1850, was an English poet most commonly associated with being, along with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, one ...

Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Omar Khayyam (2011)

This is probably the best known poem in the world and it has a fascinating history, combining medieval Persia (Iran) with...

The Odyssey Homer (2010)

An Apple Books Classic edition. Homer’s eighth-century epic poem is a companion to The Iliad . It tells the story of Odysseus, who...

Beautifully Broken Adrian Breon (2019)

Never give up. Never settle. Anything worth having is worth working for. You are loved beyond measure. Know your worth then add ta...

Everything That You Are Jason Wallace Poetry (2014)

The touch that makes me weak Soft skin on cheek Everything wonderful When you're in my arms So breathless I have to fight to ...

I Got Drunk and then Poetry Mark Petersen (2013)

These poems were composed while having drinks downtown, enjoying the college-town local nightlife often with a typewriter and some...

Anxiety Sakari Lacross (2020)

The second poetry collection within the  Mental Health  series. Filled with poems coming from a more anxious sou...

Six Centuries of English Poetry James Baldwin (1987)

An interesting read in part because it works in backwards chronological order, moving from the 19th century backwards, so one can ...

Poetry William Carlos Williams (2019)

Poems is an anthology of William Carlos Williams’ poetry collections, combining The Tempers (1913), Al Que Quiere! (1917), and Sou...

Fourth Grade Poetry Party Fourth Grade Students at Flint Hill School (2013)

A collection of poems written by fourth grade students at Flint Hill School.

A Dream within a Dream Edgar Allan Poe (1848)

"A Dream Within a Dream" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The poem is 24 lines, divided in...

The Faerie Queene Edmund Spenser (2022)

The Faerie Queene is Edmund Spenser’s magnum opus, composed for Queen Elizabeth I. The epic poem is incomplete, as only six of the...

The Waste Land Thomas Stearns Eliot (1922)

Poet's poem loosely follows the legend of the Holy Grail and the Fisher King combined with vignettes of the contemporary soci...

Dark Moments Anthony Martinez (2020)

21 poems: A Happier Place, Mascara, Butterflies Bursting into Flames, Punching Bag, Hugging Teddy Bears, Taken, The Bottom of a Bo...

Poems Victor Hugo (1884)

The poems of Victor Hugo captured the spirit of the Romantic era. They were largely devoted to 19th century causes. Many touched o...

The Aeneid of Virgil 70 BC-19 BC Virgil (2007)

The Aeneid is a Latin epic poem, written by Virgil between 29 and 19 BC, that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who tr...

Gilgamesh 2nd edition Jeffrey Barcham (2020)

This book is a new version (in verse) of the ancient Sumerian and Babylonian Epic of Gilgamesh. It tells the history of Gilgamesh,...

Poems by Walt Whitman Walt Whitman & William Michael Rossetti (1892)

The poems in this collection by American poet Walt Whitman were selected and edited by British critic William Michael Rossetti. Th...

Tell Me Why Jason Wallace Poetry (2014)

You meant more to me Than the ones before. Tell me why. You were no better than them, But I loved you more. Tell me why. I die day...

The Odyssey Homer (1997)

The poem mainly centers on the Greek hero Odysseus (known as Ulysses in Roman myths) and his journey home after the fall of&#x...

POEMAS DE AMOR Julio Federik (2020)

Estos poemas de amor pertenecen a distintos momentos de la vida del autor. La mayoría tienen el formato del verso libre pero encon...

The Iliad Homer (1938)

Renowned classicist Bernard Knox observes in his superb introduction that although the violence of the Iliad is ...

The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri Dante Alighieri & Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1321)

This volume, published in 1893, is Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s translation of The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, the Italian p...

Poetry T. S. Eliot (2017)

Poetry of Eliot collects all of his early work through “The Hollow Men.” Poems like “The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock,” “Whispers ...

Lyrical Ballads William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge (2014)

Lyrical Ballads is a collection of poems by William Wordsworth and his friend and contemporary Samuel Taylor Coleridge. A hugely i...

Les Fleurs du Mal Charles Baudelaire (1857)

La lecture de poèmes ne vous est pas familière? Découvrez l’un des recueils de poésie les plus célèbres et succombez au charme int...

3 AM Thoughts Sakari Lacross (2020)

With desire comes heartbreak. With love comes desires. With heartbreak comes new memories to hold on to. This poetry collection is...

Del Amor y otras formas de Suicidio Manolo Cruz (2018)

Poesía incompleta, inconexa, sin premeditación. Porque amar es así, sin guion. Esta es mi primera obra puramente literaria. Es un ...

Little Women Louisa May Alcott (2023)

Meg is the eldest and on the brink of love. Then there's tomboy Jo who longs to be a writer. Sweet-natured Beth always put...

The Iliad Homer (2000)

The Iliad (sometimes referred to as the Song of Ilion or Song of Ilium) is an&#xa...

En el punto final Aníbal Álvarez, Ana Deacracia, Acracia Márquez, Antonio Cabrita, Aurea Nobre, Carmen Azaustre, Clara Correia, Clemen Esteban, Estrella García, Isabel Calheiro, Joaquina Vázquez, José Luis Rúa, Manuela Lazo, M.ª Luisa Domínguez Borrallo, Pepa Martínez, Raúl Vela & Simone Sáez (2018)

Desde hace algunos años, el día 2 de noviembre, día de los fieles difuntos, Poetas del Guadiana celebramos en el camposanto de Aya...

Someone Like You Sakari Lacross (2021)

A linear storyline of poetry, telling moments of desperation as one man rides a mental rollercoster dealing with a long distance r...

The Song of Hiawatha Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1881)

It is a powerful, emotional epic; a hero's life, his loves and suffering. The legends and traditions of the North American In...

The Poems of Goethe Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (2015)

I feel no small reluctance in venturing to give to the public a work of the character of that indicated by the title-page to the p...

Demonic Transmogrifications Imagines Vinco (2014)

An epic poem, which utilizes Kabbalah, astrology, demonology, and Greek mythology to tell a mythology in which the Greek gods tran...

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems Lewis Carroll (1898)

"Phantasmagoria" is a poem written by Lewis Carroll and first published in 1869 as the opening poem of...

Dirty Tears ruby karen (2019)

It takes being consumed by your fire within, and submersion in your own darkness, before being able to rise and light the night. D...

Everything I Wanted To Say Dionte Goodlett (2017)

In his first poetry chapbook, Everything I Wanted To Say , Dionte Goodlett details growing through life and love.

Letters From The Psych Ward Joseph E. A. Russo (2022)

In this collage of poems, 16-year-old student Jo Russo touches on many different topics and struggles he has been dealing with for...

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight J.R.R. Tolkien (2021)

An Apple Books Classic edition. The author of this epic poem remains a mystery, but the original manuscript dates back to the 14th...

Songs of Kabir Kabir (1517)

Songs of Kabir is a 1915 book consisting of 100 poems of Kabir, the 15th-century Indian poet and mystic, translated to English by ...

The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1882)

This complete set of verse from the quintessential American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow includes traditional favorites such as...

The Raven Edgar Allan Poe (1844)

Poet tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow fall into madness. The lo...

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