Famous Poets

Be inspired by the words of these famous poets. While many of these people have died their poetry continues to live on. They have written poetry that has inspired people during their lifetime and continues today as their poems are shared. You may also be inspired by our collectiion of Famous Poems.

Short Poems & Quotes / Famous Poets

	11 poems by John Kendrick Bangs 1862 - 1922 "He is indeed in friendless plight who hath no creditor And does not know the joyous task of paying off the score!"
	26 poems by Caleb Davis Bradlee 1831 - 1897 "Lord, when we shall question in our heart, Whether thou wilt stay with us, or depart"
	20 poems by Berton Braley 1882 - 1966 "Whistle, old fellow; you go on and whistle; What do we care if you sharp or you flat?"
	7 poems by Clara McAlister Brooks 1882 - 1980 "And we shall stand with the judgment-train. Oh! what shall we wish that day?
	11 poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning 1806 - 1861 " think we are too ready with complaint In this fair world of God's.
	21 poems by David V. Bush 1882 - 1959 "If you've tried and if you've failed, Keep plodding.
	11 poems by Alice Cary 1820 - 1871 "Stay yet a little longer in the sky, O golden color of the evening sun!"
	7 poems by Phoebe Cary 1824 - 1871 "O years, gone down into the past; What pleasant memories come to me."
	26 poems by Daniel C. Colesworthy 1810 - 1893 "What is existence, but to give Our influence to a righteous cause?"
	25 poems by Lillian E. Curtis mid 1800's death unknown "Friendship! how boundless and expansive is the term, Leading thro' labyrinths - ah! 'tis a priceless germ."
	14 poems by Emily Dickinson 1831 - 1905 "Not knowing when the dawn will come I open every door."
	16 poems by Mary Mapes Dodge 1830 - 1886 "If you've any task to do, Let me whisper, friend, to you, Do it."
	14 poems by Paul Laurence Dunbar 1872 - 1906 "Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow."
	14 poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson 1803 - 1882 "That book is good Which puts me in a working mood."
	12 poems by Eugene Field 1850 - 1895 "There are no days like the good old days, - The days when we were youthful!
	11 poems by Ardeen Foster "I mourn you as you die! Good-bye, Old Year, good-bye!
	9 poems by Robert Frost 1874 - 1963 "Nature’s first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold.
	27 poems by Arthur Franklin Fuller 1880 - 1953 "Dear little hand and wise little heart, Words cannot measure the sweet you impart"
	20 poems by Strickland Gillilan 1869 - 1954 "Most every day brings some grave situation, Not to be feared, but faced."
	37 poems by Edgar A. Guest 1881 - 1959 "The pathway of the living is our ever-present care. Let us do our best to smooth it and to make it bright and fair"
	27 poems by John Imrie 1846 - 1902 "Life is all too short for strife, Peace and love are golden"
	5 poems by Rudyard Kipling 1865 - 1936 "If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you...
	9 poems by Lucy Larcom 1824 - 1893 "Life offers no joy like a friend: Fulfillment and prophecy blend...
	7 poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807 - 1882 "How beautiful is the rain! After the dust and heat"
	11 poems by Amy Lowell 1874 - 1925 "I ask but one thing of you, only one. That always you will be my dream of you"
	20 poems by Douglas Malloch 1877 - 1938 "Some folks run to sunsets, some folks run to noon. Some folks like the evenin' best, with its stars an' moon."
	13 poems by Edgar Allan Poe 1809 - 1849 "The happiest day - the happiest hour My sear'd and blighted heart hath known"
	10 poems by Catherine Pulsifer 1957 "Persistence pays off no matter what Quitting just closes everything shut"
	14 poems by Althea Randolph 1800s - death unknown "The trees are very vain, I think! I feel this must be true. Because they like to change their gowns as much as people do!"
	15 poems by Christina Rossetti 1830 - 1894 "We know not when, we know not where, We know not what that world will be"
	23 poems by Mary C. Ryan "Oh! give me back my childhood years, The friends that are no more"
	13 poems by Eloise A. Skimings 1836 - 1921 "Be a friend good and true, to those you love; O'er their path blossoms strew, to bloom above"
	12 poems by Robert Louis Stevenson 1850 - 1894 "I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see"
	20 poems by Wilhelmina Stitch 1888 - 1936 "Mind! What are you minting? Thoughts of purest gold To buy a share of happiness when we are growing old."
	22 poems by Patience Strong 1907 - 1990 "Welcome Christmas once again! Come blizzard, snow or rime It cannot dim the joy that fills our hearts at this glad time.
	15 poems by Ellwood Haines Stokes 1815 - 1897 "What a joyful place our heaven must be. Where the captive dwells forever free."
	6 poems by James Henry Thomas "We are very often treated with contempt and scorn; But if right, we're not defeated, though much must be borne."
	18 poems by J. J. Thorne 1871 - unknown "Knowledge is power, conscience is truth, It was given us the way to live by"
	9 poems by Sara Teasdale 1884-1933 "Let it be forgotten, as a flower is forgotten, Forgotten as a fire that once was singing gold"
	21 poems by William Arthur Ward 1921 - 1994 "A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism."
	23 poems by Nixon Waterman 1859 - 1944 "With every tick of the clock, my dear, The days go singing by."
	8 poems by Kate Louise Wheeler late 1800s "Do not dream away life’s morning, Rise to bless as does the sun"
	23 poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 1850 -1919 "We will be what we could be. Do not say, 'It might have been, had not or that, or this'"
	25 poems by Henry VanDyke 1852 - 1933 "Love is not getting, but giving"

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