Inspiration
59 poems
Where do poems come from? Muse, revelation, hard work: poems about inspiration. Read them on Loëly.
Let Daintie wittes
Sir Philip Sidney
Astrophil and Stella
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0"Where's the Poet ? Show Him ! Show Him !"
John Keats
00A Draught of Sunshine
John Keats
00A Lime-tree Broad of Bough and Rough of Trunk
David Gray
00An Acre of Grass
William B. Yeats
New Poems
00An invocation
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
00Auspex
James Russell Lowell
00City Visions
Emma Lazarus
00Come on, come up, ye rovers
Violet Jacob
Verses
00Crown 7
Mary Wroth
The Crown Sonnets
00Design And Performance
Felicia Hemans
00Dr Swift To Mr Pope, While he was writing "The Dunciad"
Jonathan Swift
00Fata Morgana
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
00I Am A Parcel Of Vain Strivings Tied
Henry David Thoreau
00I Broke the spell that held me long
William Cullen Bryant
00In What Enchanted Ground
James Henry
Poematia
00Introduction
William Blake
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
00Life and Art
Emma Lazarus
00Likes and inspirations — what's the difference?
Unknown
00Loss And Gain
Ralph Waldo Emerson
00Me Tho' In Life's Sequester'd Vale
Mark Akenside
00Most Sweet it is
William Wordsworth
00Notes On The Art Of Poetry
Dylan Thomas
00Prologue To A Comedy
Philip Freneau
00Romance
Edgar Allan Poe
00Sonnet - IV
John Keats
00Sonnet 38
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
00Sonnet 78
William Shakespeare
Sonnets
00Sonnet Favour’d by heav’n
Mary Robinson
00Sonnet I - Loving in Truth
Sir Philip Sidney
00Sonnet LXI
Anna Seward
00Sonnet LXXV
Anna Seward
00Sonnet to Amicus
Mary Robinson
00Sonnet XI
John Keats
00Sonnet XII
John Keats
00Sonnet XIV
John Keats
00Sonnet XVI
John Keats
00Sonnet XXII
Anna Seward
00Sonnet XXIX
Anna Seward
00Summer
James Thomson
The Seasons
00That Bright Chimeric Beast
Countee Cullen
00The Apology
Ralph Waldo Emerson
00The Bird-Man
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
00The Muse
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
00The Poet's Delay
Henry David Thoreau
00The Progress of Poetry
Jonathan Swift
00The Sound of the Sea
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
00Those Images
William B. Yeats
New Poems
00Thunderstorms
William Henry Davies
The Collected Poems of William H. Davies
00To a Skylark
Percy Bysshe Shelley
00To a Skylark
William Wordsworth
00To a young Lady who sent me a Laurel Crown
John Keats
00To John Keats, Poet, At Spring Time
Countee Cullen
00To the muse
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
00To The Muse
Mark Akenside
00Voice
Harriet Prescott Spofford
00Why are you, Calliope, embroidered with letters of gold?
John Skelton
00With a Copy of Shelley
Harriet Monroe
00XVII - My poet, thou canst touch on all the notes
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese
00Other themes
