Original Poems

Original Poems is a free poetry resource listing thousands of open source poems.

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A poem about unspoken love, the quiet ache of longing and all the things we wish someone understood without being told.

The repeated line “If you but knew!” turns each stanza into a confession.

Do you think the beloved ever realizes?

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A beautiful example of the sonnet form reflecting on nature and time.

What image in this poem stays with you the most?

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A powerful example of the villanelle form, where repetition becomes devotion.

The refrain “Ireland, Ireland!” echoes like a vow.

What do you think repetition does here, lament, prayer, or battle cry?

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In this biting fable, Jean de La Fontaine pokes at the fragility of justice, showing how confusion, rhetoric, and exhaustion can reduce judgment to chance. A centuries-old satire that still feels uncomfortably familiar.

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“I’d bet my moon against his stars — and gamble for the sun.” 🌙🎲 #VachelLindsay #Ballad #Poetry #POEMS

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In just a few lines, William Allingham reminds us how the simplest spring scene, ducks, sky, clouds, can linger for a lifetime. A tiny lyric about memory, tenderness, and how ordinary beauty becomes sacred with time.

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Thomas Moore writes love not as fleeting delight, but as a bond tested in sorrow and strengthened by trial — a lyric of devotion that refuses doubt.

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In Love Despised, Madison Julius Cawein confronts love not as sweetness, but as torment, asking why we pursue what wounds us, and reminding us that beauty carries its own inevitable fading. A sonnet of fire, frost, and hard wisdom.

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Some hardships are best handled with exact change

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All human record is effaced, only love holds the wave.

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They call a carriage and drive back into fairyland.

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Reflecting on mortality… interrupted by the bell.

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Eros and the Muse, love and thought, travelling hand in hand. #RalphWaldoEmerson #Poetry #LoveAndThought

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In The Snowdrop, Tennyson welcomes the earliest flower of the year, small, brave, and prophetic, a reminder that even in the coldest months, renewal has already begun. #Poetry #AlfredLordTennyson #OriginalPoems

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In just eight lines, James Joyce captures the quiet devastation of a choice made for love — and the irreversible cost it exacts. A poem about loyalty broken, intimacy gained, and a friendship lost beyond repair.

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In A Waft of Perfume, Ella Wheeler Wilcox shows how a fleeting scent can collapse centuries — turning an ordinary street into a stage of ancient beauty, desire, and legend, before quietly releasing us back to the present.

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In The New Year, Mary Hannay Foott uses the image of a scarred but living tree to remind us that renewal does not erase loss — it grows around it. A sonnet of resilience, faith, and quiet hope.

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Some people choose the bitter cup — and somehow end up happier for it.

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