Didactic
171 poems
Poems that teach: morals, knowledge, advice for living. Didactic poetry, from Antiquity to fables, on Loëly.
For A Grotto
Mark Akenside
A friend in need
Dora Sigerson Shorter
A gardener - sage
Katharine Tynan
A Man's a Man for A' That
Robert Burns
A Mounted Umbrella
Gertrude Stein
A Psalm of life
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Admonition
William Wordsworth
Advice To A Girl
Sara Teasdale
Aesop
Andrew Lang
After Aesop
James Henry
Poematia
Against Love
Katherine Philips
All the Hills and Vales Along
Charles Sorley
Ambition
Khalil Gibran
Among The Rocks
Robert Browning
As those we love decay, we die in part
James Thomson
Barter
Sara Teasdale
Birds
Oliver Goldsmith
Boldness In Love
Thomas Carew
Boys Will Be Boys
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Can you write about anything?
Unknown
Capel Calvin
Idris Davies
Chance
Helen Hunt Jackson
Characters
Anna Laetitia Barbauld
Comments
Unknown
Critic and Poet: an Epilogue
Emma Lazarus
Decima
George Santayana
Each and All
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Epistle I
Alexander Pope
Essay on Man
Epistle II
Alexander Pope
Essay on Man
Fable
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Fate
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Female Beauty
Mark Akenside
Females
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Fontinella to Florinda
Jonathan Swift
For All We Have and Are
Rudyard Kipling
For An Autograph
James Russell Lowell
For Fear
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Go To The Grave
Nathaniel Hawthorne
Guiltless Heart
Francis Bacon
He Meditates On The Life Of A Rich Man
Isabella Augusta Gregory
He Who Weeps For Beauty Gone
William Soutar
Heaven
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
Help Lord
Francis Bacon
His Vision Of Death
Isabella Augusta Gregory
Hope
Joseph Addison
Hope And Despair
Lascelles Abercrombie
How to create a group
Unknown
How to write a poem
Unknown
I Must Not Tease My Mother
Lydia Huntley Sigourney
If I can stop one Heart from breaking
Emily Dickinson
If You Don't Know What's A True Friend
James Henry
Poematia
If...
Rudyard Kipling
Let's Divide Then
James Henry
Poematia
Life
Charlotte Brontë
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Limits
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Me Tho' In Life's Sequester'd Vale
Mark Akenside
Muses of Pieria who give glory through song
Hésiode
Never Love Unless
Thomas Campion
Of Crime and Punishment
Khalil Gibran
The Prophet
On a Pair of Dice
Jonathan Swift