We invite you to visit the site dedicated to poetry. We would like to bring poems of the classics of world literature to attention of readers. The structure and navigation of the site is very convenient. A wide choice of poems will please the reader.
Reading provides benefits in many cases, including reading poetical works. There are moments in the life of everyone, when sadness invades you or, on the contrary, joy overwhelms you and you want to share your thoughts. Not always there will be a conversationalist nearby, but if you open a book, even a virtual one, loneliness will recede. It turns out that people who write poetry, feel just like you, feel experience and rejoice. Poetry is one of the wonderful and emotional ways of communicating.
Not everyone believes that poetry is really necessary for a modern person. Someone even believe that reading poetry is harmful, since they distract you from reality, taking to an imaginary world and making us socially unadapted dreamers. According to this point of view, only the imagination develops. A number of studies prove the opposite.
For example, scientists from Liverpool University managed to find out that under the influence of reading poetical works, brain activity is significantly increased and remains even after the end of reading. Is this not a proof of the benefits of reading? Robert Wilson, a researcher from America, studied the brain activity of the elderly for several years. It turns out that those who read regularly had better memory and suffered less from various senile pathologies.
Reading fiction is the best way to get through the stress. Neurophysiologist David Lewis with a group of researchers injected volunteers into a stressful state. To get rid of stress, the test persons were offered several methods, for example, walking, drinking tea, listening to music. Reading proved to be the most effective of all the proposed methods. The well-being was normalized a few minutes after the beginning of the reading. And there are many such examples.
Poetry has a beneficial effect not only on our psychological state, but also trains memory and develops imagination. Read your beloved a few verses – this will be the most unconventional way to impress. Children like to listen to poetry, they are easier to remember – it is useful for human development. Read poetry, please yourself and others!
Poets
- A A Milne
- A E Housman
- A R Ammons
- A S J Tessimond
- Abraham Cowley
- Adam Lindsay Gordon
- Adrian Green
- Ai
- Alain Bosquet
- Alan Dugan
- Alan Seeger
- Alden Nowlan
- Alec Derwent Hope
- Aleister Crowley
- Aleksandr Blok
- Alexander Pope
- Alfonsina Storni
- Alfred Austin
- Alfred Noyes
- Algernon Charles Swinburne
- Alice Duer Miller
- Alice Walker
- Allen Ginsberg
- Ambrose Bierce
- Amy Clampitt
- Amy Levy
- Amy Lowell
- Anais Nin
- Anastasia Clark
- Andre Breton
- Andree Chedid
- Andrew Barton Paterson
- Andrew Crumey
- Andrew Hudgins
- Andrew Marvell
- Ann Taylor
- Anna Akhmatova
- Anne Bradstreet
- Anne Bronte
- Anne Killigrew
- Anne Kingsmill Finch
- Anne Sexton
- Anne Waldman
- Annie Dillard
- Annie Finch
- Annie Louisa Walker
- Anthony Hecht
- Antonio Machado
- April Bernard
- Archibald Macleish
- Arna Bontemps
- Arthur Hugh Clough
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Arthur Symons
- Arthur Sze
- Audre Lorde
- Austin Clarke
- Barry Tebb
- Belinda Subraman
- Ben Jonson
- Bernadette Geyer
- Bertolt Brecht
- Bhaskar Roy Barman
- Billy Collins
- Billy Jno Hope
- Bliss Carman
- Bob Hicok
- Bob Kaufman
- Boris Pasternak
- Bret Harte
- Brooks Haxton
- C K Williams
- C S Lewis
- Carl Sandburg
- Carlos Barbarito
- Carol Ann Duffy
- Carolyn Forche
- Carolyn Kizer
- Catherine Anderson
- Cecilia Borromeo
- Cecilia Woloch
- Cesar Vallejo
- Charles Baudelaire
- Charles Bukowski
- Charles Kingsley
- Charles Simic
- Charles Sorley
- Charles Webb
- Charlotte Bronte
- Charlotte Smith
- Chris Jones
- Chris Mansell
- Chris Tusa
- Christina Rossetti
- Christopher Marlowe
- Christopher Smart
- Claire Nixon
- Claude Mckay
- Connie Wanek
- Conrad Aiken
- Constantine P Cavafy
- Cornelius Eady
- Countee Cullen
- Coventry Patmore
- Craig Erick Chaffin
- Craig Raine
- Czeslaw Milosz
- D C Berry
- Daisy Fried
- Dale Harcombe
- Dame Edith Sitwell
- Dame Mary Gilmore
- Dante Alighieri
- David Berman
- David Herbert Lawrence
- David Ignatow
- David Lehman
- David St John
- David Wagoner
- Deborah Ager
- Delmira Agustini
- Delmore Schwartz
- Denise Duhamel
- Denise Levertov
- Derek Walcott
- Desi Di Nardo
- Diane Di prima
- Diane Wakoski
- Dimitris Lyacos
- Dimitris P Kraniotis
- Dimitris Varos
- Don Paterson
- Donald Hall
- Donald Justice
- Dorothea Mackellar
- Dorothy Parker
- Duncan Campbell Scott
- Dylan Thomas
- Eamon Grennan
- Eavan Boland
- Edgar Albert Guest
- Edgar Allan Poe
- Edgar Bowers
- Edgar Lee Masters
- Edith Nesbit
- Edith Wharton
- Edmund Spenser
- Edna St Vincent Millay
- Edward Dorn
- Edward Field
- Edward Fitzgerald
- Edward Hirsch
- Edward Lear
- Edward Taylor
- Edward Thomas
- Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Edwin Markham
- Edwin Morgan
- Edwin Muir
- Eileen Carney Hulme
- Eleanor Wilner
- Elinor Wylie
- Eliza Cook
- Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Elizabeth Bishop
- Elizabeth Jennings
- Elizabeth Smart
- Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Ellis Parker Butler
- Emanuel Xavier
- Emily Bronte
- Emily Dickinson
- Emma Lazarus
- Erica Jong
- Erin Belieu
- Erin Moure
- Ernest Dowson
- Ernest Lawrence Thayer
- Etheridge Knight
- Eugene Field
- Ezra Pound
- Faye Diane Kilday
- Federico Garcia Lorca
- Fenny Sterenborg
- Fernando Pessoa
- Forrest Hamer
- Frances Mayes
- Francis Scott Key
- Francis Thompson
- Francois Villon
- Frank Bidart
- Friedrich Von Schiller
- G K Chesterton
- Gabriela Mistral
- Galway Kinnell
- Gary Dodd
- Gary Snyder
- Gary Soto
- Gelett Burgess
- Geoffrey Chaucer
- Geoffrey Hill
- Georg Trakl
- George Bradley
- George Eliot
- George Herbert
- George Meredith
- George William Russell
- Gerald England
- Gerald Stern
- Geraldine Connolly
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Gertrude Stein
- Giacomo Leopardi
- Godfrey Mutiso Gorry
- Grace Paley
- Graham Burchell
- Gregory Corso
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Harold Pinter
- Hart Crane
- Heather Mchugh
- Helen Dunmore
- Helen Hunt Jackson
- Henrik Ibsen
- Henry David Thoreau
- Henry Lawson
- Henry Van Dyke
- Henry Vaughan
- Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Herman Melville
- Hermann Hesse
- Hilaire Belloc
- Hilda Doolittle
- Ho Xuan Huong
- Howard Nemerov
- Hugh Henry Brackenridge
- Hugo Williams
- Ian Emberson
- Imamu Amiri Baraka
- Ingeborg Bachmann
- Isaac Rosenberg
- Isaac Watts
- Ivan Donn Carswell
- J R r tolkien
- Jack Gilbert
- Jack Prelutsky
- Jack Spicer
- Jackie Kay
- James A Emanuel
- James Dickey
- James Henry Leigh Hunt
- James Joyce
- James Lee Jobe
- James Merrill
- James Schuyler
- James Stephens
- James Thomson
- James Weldon Johnson
- James Whitcomb Riley
- James Wright
- Jane Austen
- Jane Kenyon
- Jane Taylor
- Jean Cocteau
- Jean De la Fontaine
- Jean Hans Arp
- Jean Toomer
- Jean Valentine
- Jennifer Reeser
- Jenny Joseph
- Jerome Rothenberg
- Jessie Redmon Fauset
- Jim Carroll
- Jiri Mordecai Langer
- Joaquin Miller
- Joel Barlow
- Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
- John Ashbery
- John Berryman
- John Betjeman
- John Bodenham
- John Burnside
- John Clare
- John Crowe Ransom
- John Davidson
- John Donne
- John Dryden
- John Fletcher
- John Frederick Nims
- John Gould Fletcher
- John Greenleaf Whittier
- John Keats
- John Lindley
- John Masefield
- John Matthew
- John Mccrae
- John Milton
- John Montague
- John Ruskin
- John Trumbull
- John Wheelwright
- John Williams
- John Wilmot
- Jonas Mekas
- Jonathan Bohrn
- Jonathan Swift
- Jorge Luis Borges
- Jorie Graham
- Jose Asuncion Silva
- Joseph Brodsky
- Joseph Freiherr Von Eichendorff
- Joseph Warton
- Joy Harjo
- Joyce Kilmer
- Joyce Sutphen
- Judith Skillman
- Judith Wright
- Judy Grahn
- Julia Ward Howe
- Julie Hill alger
- Juliet Wilson
- Jupiter Hammon
- Karl Shapiro
- Katha Pollitt
- Katharine Tynan
- Katherine Anne Porter
- Katherine Mansfield
- Katherine Philips
- Kathleen Raine
- Keith Douglas
- Kenneth Koch
- Kenneth Patchen
- Kenneth Slessor
- Khalil Gibran
- Kimiko Hahn
- Kingsley Amis
- Lady Mary Chudleigh
- Langston Hughes
- Larry Levis
- Lascelles Abercrombie
- Laura Riding Jackson
- Laure-anne Bosselaar
- Laurence Binyon
- Laurie Lee
- Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- Leonard Cohen
- Les Murray
- Lew Welch
- Lewis Carroll
- Li Ching Chao
- Li Po
- Lisel Mueller
- Lizette Woodworth Reese
- Lola Ridge
- Lord Alfred Tennyson
- Lord Byron
- Louis Macneice
- Louisa May Alcott
- Louise Bogan
- Louise Gluck
- Lucy Maud Montgomery
- Luis Benitez
- Luisa Villani
- Mac Hammond
- Maggie Anderson
- Maggie Estep
- Mahmoud Darwish
- Major Henry Livingston
- Margaret Atwood
- Margaret Widdemer
- Marge Piercy
- Marianne Moore
- Marilyn Hacker
- Marilyn L Taylor
- Marina Tsvetaeva
- Mark Doty
- Mark Hillringhouse
- Mark Irwin
- Mark Strand
- Mark Twain
- Mark Van Doren
- Marriott Edgar
- Martha Collins
- Marvin Bell
- Mary Darby Robinson
- Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
- Mary Oliver
- Matsuo Basho
- Matthew Arnold
- Matthew Prior
- Maxine Kumin
- May Swenson
- Maya Angelou
- Mewlana Jalaluddin Rumi
- Michael Burch
- Michael Donaghy
- Michael Drayton
- Michael Lally
- Michael Ondaatje
- Michael Wigglesworth
- Muriel Rukeyser
- Nancy Willard
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- Natasha Trethewey
- Nazim Hikmet
- Nick Flynn
- Nikki Giovanni
- Nimah Nawwab
- Nizar Qabbani
- Norman Dubie
- Ogden Nash
- Oliver Goldsmith
- Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Omar Khayyam
- Oodgeroo Noonuccal
- Oscar Wilde
- Osip Mandelstam
- P K Page
- Pablo Neruda
- Patricia Goedicke
- Patrick Kavanagh
- Paul Celan
- Paul Eluard
- Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Paul Muldoon
- Paul Verlaine
- Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Peter Huchel
- Peter Orlovsky
- Philip Freneau
- Philip Larkin
- Philip Levine
- Phillis Wheatley
- Pierre Reverdy
- Primo Levi
- Quincy Troupe
- R George
- R S Thomas
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Rafael Guillen
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ralph Angel
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Randall Jarrell
- Rebecca Elson
- Regina Derieva
- Rg Gregory
- Richard Aldington
- Richard Brautigan
- Richard Crashaw
- Richard Hugo
- Richard Jones
- Richard Lovelace
- Richard Wilbur
- Rita Dove
- Roald Dahl
- Robert Bly
- Robert Browning
- Robert Burns
- Robert Creeley
- Robert Desnos
- Robert Duncan
- Robert Francis
- Robert Frost
- Robert Graves
- Robert Hayden
- Robert Herrick
- Robert Louis Stevenson
- Robert Lowell
- Robert M Hensel
- Robert Penn Warren
- Robert Pinsky
- Robert Seymour Bridges
- Robert Southey
- Robert William Service
- Robinson Jeffers
- Roddy Lumsden
- Roger Mcgough
- Ron Padgett
- Ros Barber
- Rudyard Kipling
- Rupert Brooke
- Russell Edson
- Russell Hughes Ragsdale
- Ruth L Schwartz
- Salvatore Quasimodo
- Samuel Coleridge
- Samuel Johnson
- Sara Teasdale
- Sarah Flower Adams
- Sarojini Naidu
- Seamus Heaney
- Sharmagne Leland-st john
- Sharon Olds
- Shawn Mcallister
- Sheema Kalbasi
- Shel Silverstein
- Siddharth Anand
- Sidney Godolphin
- Sidney Lanier
- Siegfried Sassoon
- Sir Henry Newbolt
- Sir John Suckling
- Sir Philip Sidney
- Sir Thomas Wyatt
- Sir Walter Raleigh
- Sir Walter Scott
- Sophie Hannah
- Spike Milligan
- Stanley Kunitz
- Stephane Mallarme
- Stephen Crane
- Stephen Dobyns
- Stephen Dunn
- Stephen Vincent Benet
- Steve Kowit
- Stevie Smith
- Suheir Hammad
- Sukasah Syahdan
- Susan Rich
- T S eliot
- Tadeusz Rozewicz
- Ted Hughes
- Ted Kooser
- Theodore Roethke
- Thom Gunn
- Thomas Blackburn
- Thomas Campbell
- Thomas Carew
- Thomas Chatterton
- Thomas Edward Brown
- Thomas Flatman
- Thomas Godfrey
- Thomas Gray
- Thomas Hardy
- Thomas Hood
- Thomas Lux
- Thomas Moore
- Thomas Warton
- Tiel Aisha Ansari
- Tony Harrison
- Tony Hoagland
- Tristan Tzara
- Tu Fu
- Vachel Lindsay
- Vanessa Perkins
- Vasko Popa
- Vernon Scannell
- Victor Hugo
- Vita Sackville-west
- Vladimir Mayakovsky
- Vladislav Nekliaev
- W Jude Aher
- W S merwin
- Wallace Stevens
- Walt Whitman
- Walter De La Mare
- Walter Savage Landor
- Wanda Phipps
- Wang Wei
- Weldon Kees
- Wendell Berry
- Wilfred Owen
- Willa Cather
- William Allingham
- William Blake
- William Bronk
- William Browne
- William Butler Yeats
- William Carlos Williams
- William Cowper
- William Cullen Bryant
- William Dean Howells
- William Drummond
- William Dunbar
- William Ernest Henley
- William Henry Davies
- William Lisle Bowles
- William Matthews
- William Morris
- William Rose Benet
- William Shakespeare
- William Stafford
- William Strode
- William Topaz Mcgonagall
- William Vaughn Moody
- William Wordsworth
- Wislawa Szymborska
- Witt Wittmann
- Wole Soyinka
- Yahia Lababidi
- Yehuda Amichai
- Yevgeny Yevtushenko
- Yosa Buson
- Yusef Komunyakaa
- Yves Bonnefoy