The Great Poets: Language at its highest pressure

Poetry is the oldest literary art and the most concentrated. Here are the poets who set the standard — Keats and Dickinson, Whitman, Yeats, and Frost.

In this collection

• To Mary, on Receiving her Picture
• Two or Three Posies
• I Wonder if the Sepulchre
• Farewell Petition to R. C. H., Esq
• Choice
• A Volume of Nonsense
• Maple
• Out of the Rose
• Euthanasia
• So Long!
• The Tresses of the Hair
• Song of Saul before his Last Battle
• To Thyrza
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
• A Light Exists in Spring
• Europe, the Seventy-Second and Seventy-Third Years of these States
• The Runaway
• Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
• Rouge Et Noir
• I Stood Tiptoe Upon a Little Hill
• Isabella, or the Pot of Basil
• Whether my Bark Went down at Sea
• To M. s. G
• Ego Dominus Tuus
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