Classic Poetry
Whitman singing the body electric, Dickinson in her quiet Amherst rooms, Milton's Satan rising from the burning lake, Shakespeare's sonnets turning on a dime. Public-domain poetry — click-to-explain for every allusion, archaism, and inverted line of syntax, so the compressed sentences actually uncompress in real time.
36 books

Paradise Lost by John Milton

The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Beowulf by Anonymous

The Aeneid by Virgil

Metamorphoses by Ovid

North of Boston by Robert Frost

Lyrical Ballads by William Wordsworth

Don Juan by Lord Byron

John Brown’s Body by Stephen Vincent Benét

The Faerie Queene by Edmund Spenser

New Hampshire by Robert Frost

Agamemnon by Aeschylus

The Nibelungenlied by Anonymous

Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin

The Kural by Thiruvalluvar

Magnolia Leaves by Mary Weston Fordham

The Kalevala by Elias Lönnrot

Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

Orlando Furioso by Ludovico Ariosto

The Eumenides by Aeschylus

Gudrun by Anonymous

The Argonautica by Apollonius of Rhodes

The Libation Bearers by Aeschylus

The Georgics by Virgil

Festus by Philip James Bailey

The Eclogues by Virgil

Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral by Phillis Wheatley

Poetry by Taras Shevchenko

The Luzumiyat by Abu al-ʻAlaʼ al-Maʻarri

Pan Tadeusz by Adam Mickiewicz

The Columbiad by Joel Barlow

Lais by Marie de France

Hudibras by Samuel Butler

A Cycle of the West by John G. Neihardt
