Free poetry books to read online

Poetry collections from the poets whose work has passed into the public domain — epics, sonnets, ballads and collected verse, all free to read in full inside Writro.

Free poetry classics to read online

Public-domain titles you can read in full on Writro, no purchase needed.

• The Odyssey: Rendered into English prose for the use of those who cannot read the original — Homer
• The Complete Works of William Shakespeare — Shakespeare, William
• The Lady of the Lake — Scott, Walter
• The Home Book of Verse — Volume 2 — Stevenson, Burton Egbert
• Erotica Romana — Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
• Sonnets from the Portuguese — Browning, Elizabeth Barrett
• India's Love Lyrics — Hope, Laurence
• The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 1 — Poe, Edgar Allan
• Biographia Literaria — Coleridge, Samuel Taylor
• The Iliad — Homer
• The Metamorphoses of Ovid, Books I-VII — Ovid
• Spoon River Anthology — Masters, Edgar Lee
• The Lovers Assistant; Or, New Art of Love — Fielding, Henry
• The Iliad — Homer
• The Works of Edgar Allan Poe, The Raven Edition: Table Of Contents And Index Of The Five Volumes — Poe, Edgar Allan
• Don Juan — Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
• Chaucer's Works, Volume 2 — Boethius and Troilus — Chaucer, Geoffrey
• Spenser's The Faerie Queene, Book I — Spenser, Edmund
• The Works of Alexander Pope, Volume 1: Poetry - Volume 1 — Pope, Alexander
• The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 4 — Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
• Paradise Lost — Milton, John
• Songs of Innocence and of Experience — Blake, William
• The Aeneid — Virgil
• The Ballad of the White Horse — Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)
• The Canterbury Tales, and Other Poems — Chaucer, Geoffrey
• Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Hell — Dante Alighieri
• Childe Harold's Pilgrimage — Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
• On the Nature of Things — Lucretius Carus, Titus
• Shakespeare's Sonnets — Shakespeare, William
• Poems and Songs of Robert Burns — Burns, Robert
• Verses — Jacob, Violet
• Ash-Wednesday — Eliot, T. S. (Thomas Stearns)
• The complete works of John Gower, volume 2 : $b The English works — Gower, John
• The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri: The Inferno — Dante Alighieri
• Chaucer's Works, Volume 3 — The House of Fame; The Legend of Good Women; The Treatise on the Astrolabe; The Sources of the Canterbury Tales — Chaucer, Geoffrey
• The divine comedy — Dante Alighieri
• Songs and rhymes of a lead miner — Gracie, Thomas Grierson
• The Odyssey — Homer
• The Book of Ballads: Eleventh Edition, 1870 — Martin, Theodore, Sir
• Paradise Lost — Milton, John
• Leaves of Grass — Whitman, Walt
• Life: Poem XXI: A Book — Dickinson, Emily
• The Poetics of Aristotle — Aristotle
• Art and Heart — Wilcox, Ella Wheeler
• The Odyssey — Homer
• The Canterbury Tales — Chaucer, Geoffrey
• Leaves of Grass — Whitman, Walt
• Faust [part 1]. Translated Into English in the Original Metres — Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von
• Songs of Innocence and of Experience — Blake, William
• The Prophet — Gibran, Kahlil
• The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 3 — Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
• Poems of Henry Vaughan, Silurist, Volume II — Vaughan, Henry
• Tales and Novels of J. de La Fontaine — Complete — La Fontaine, Jean de
• Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete — Dickinson, Emily
• The Works of Lord Byron, Vol. 7. Poetry — Byron, George Gordon Byron, Baron
• The Works of Christopher Marlowe, Vol. 3 (of 3) — Marlowe, Christopher
• The Odyssey of Homer — Homer
• A Child's Garden of Verses — Stevenson, Robert Louis
• Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold — Arnold, Matthew
• Sonnets from the Portuguese — Browning, Elizabeth Barrett

Poetry published on Writro

New work by authors publishing directly on Writro.

• मेरी कलम, मेरा प्रेम — Pratima Singh
• Monsoon Letters — Vivek Verma
• अधूरी चिट्ठियाँ — Sambhavi Sinha
• मेरी कलम के रंग — Akanksha Gupta
• जालियों का पहरा — Priyanka Ahuja
• स्पंदन – १ — Kavishala
• Gurza Ishq — Prerna Singh
• અંતરધ્વનિ -1 — Kavishala
• The INK - 1 — Kavishala
• दर्पण तू सच बोल (दोहावली) — भूपेन्द्र डोंगरियाल
• अनुगूँज - 1 — Kavishala
• जनता लिख रही है — Ramesh Singh

Poetry in Hindi

From Writro's editorial list of the Hindi titles India is reading.

• मधुशाला (Madhushala) — Harivansh Rai Bachchan
• रश्मिरथी (Rashmirathi) — Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
• उर्वशी (Urvashi) — Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
• कुरुक्षेत्र (Kurukshetra) — Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
• परशुराम की प्रतीक्षा (Parshuram Ki Prateeksha) — Ramdhari Singh Dinkar
• कामायनी (Kamayani) — Jaishankar Prasad
• आँसू (Aansu) — Jaishankar Prasad
• झरना (Jharna) — Jaishankar Prasad
• गीतांजलि (Gitanjali) — Rabindranath Tagore
• यामा (Yama) — Mahadevi Verma
• नीहार (Neehar) — Mahadevi Verma
• रश्मि (Rashmi) — Mahadevi Verma
• नीरजा (Neerja) — Mahadevi Verma
• दीपशिखा (Deepshikha) — Mahadevi Verma
• सांध्यगीत (Sandhyageet) — Mahadevi Verma
• पल्लव (Pallav) — Sumitranandan Pant
• ग्राम्या (Gramya) — Sumitranandan Pant
• कुकुरमुत्ता (Kukurmutta) — Suryakant Tripathi Nirala
• परिमल (Parimal) — Suryakant Tripathi Nirala
• अनामिका (Anamika) — Suryakant Tripathi Nirala

Indian publishers known for poetry

• Rajkamal Prakashan — New Delhi
• Vani Prakashan — New Delhi
• HarperCollins India — Noida
• Sahitya Akademi — New Delhi
• Kalachuvadu Publications — Nagercoil
• Ananda Publishers — Kolkata
• Kavishala — Gurugram