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97,511 public-domain English poems by 2,030 poets, each with the text, line-by-line glosses and a reading by an AI voice designed by Versos. Read a poem, hear it, keep the lines you love.
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- Ode On A Grecian UrnJohn Keats
- O Captain! My Captain!Walt Whitman
- If--Rudyard Kipling
- UlalumeEdgar Allan Poe
- The Destruction of SennacheribLord Byron
- Gunga DinRudyard Kipling
- The Conqueror WormEdgar Allan Poe
- The Darkling ThrushThomas Hardy
- Dover BeachMatthew Arnold
- To AutumnJohn Keats
- The Second ComingWilliam Butler Yeats
- LenoreEdgar Allan Poe
- The Garden of ProserpineAlgernon Charles Swinburne
- The TygerWilliam Blake
- To HelenEdgar Allan Poe
- JabberwockyLewis Carroll
- The Song of the ShirtThomas Hood
- Ring Out, Wild BellsAlfred Lord Tennyson
- The Phoenix And The TurtleWilliam Shakespeare
- MandalayRudyard Kipling
- The SoldierRupert Brooke
- A Psalm of LifeHenry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Dulce et Decorum estWilfred Owen
- The Owl And The Pussy-Cat.Edward Lear
- The New Colossus.*Emma Lazarus
- My Last DuchessRobert Browning
- LA BELLE DAME SANS MERCI.John Keats
- Good-NightPercy Bysshe Shelley
- UlyssesAlfred Lord Tennyson
- Love's Philosophy.Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Sailing To ByzantiumWilliam Butler Yeats
- The Little Black BoyWilliam Blake
- ParisinaLord Byron
- Rabbi Ben EzraRobert Browning
- The Little Boy LostWilliam Blake
- To NightPercy Bysshe Shelley
- The Siege of CorinthLord Byron
- _We Are Seven._William Wordsworth
- TamerlaneEdgar Allan Poe
- Thanatopsis.William Cullen Bryant
- The Waning MoonPercy Bysshe Shelley
- Concord HymnRalph Waldo Emerson
- To Emilia VivianiPercy Bysshe Shelley
- HOLY THURSDAYWilliam Blake
- ELEGY WRITTEN IN A COUNTRY CHURCHYARD.Thomas Gray
- Porphyria'S LoverRobert Browning
- A Lover's ComplaintWilliam Shakespeare
- GOBLIN MARKET.Christina Georgina Rossetti
- Summer and WinterPercy Bysshe Shelley
- To Sophia [Miss Stacey]Percy Bysshe Shelley
Readers

Lionel
English RP, lyrical

Abigail
American New England

Bill
English RP with warm period colouring

Christina
English RP

Arthur
English Received Pronunciation / Southern English

Declan
Irish (Dublin, literary register)

Trevor
Northern English (Cumbrian/Yorkshire, light educated register)

Timothy
Southwest English (Dorset/Devon), gentle rural burr, educated

Horace
English RP, Augustan

Walt
American Northeast / New England

Archie
Canadian English (Ontario/Maritime)

Monty
English RP, light verse