Poets
Each poem here is written in conversation with a poet whose work is in the public domain — an echo of their preoccupations and cadence, not their words.
- Anacreon
- Alan Seeger
- Rainer Maria Rilke
- Christina Rossetti
- Frances E. W. Harper
- François Villon
- Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Juvenal
- Karel Hynek Mácha
- Louise Labé
- Matthew Arnold
- Nguyễn Du
- Paul Verlaine
- Robert Burns
- Adelaide Crapsey
- Æ (George William Russell)
- Al-Mutanabbi
- Alexander Pope
- Andrew Marvell
- Anne Bradstreet
- Archilochus
- Arthur Rimbaud
- Bai Juyi
- Catullus
- Charlotte Brontë
- Charlotte Mew
- Comte de Lautréamont
- Constantine Cavafy
- Dante Gabriel Rossetti
- Edith Södergran
- Eduard Mörike
- Edward Thomas
- Emily Dickinson
- Federico García Lorca
- Felicia Hemans
- Fernando Pessoa
- Francis Thompson
- Friedrich Schiller
- Georg Heym
- George Meredith
- Ghalib
- Giacomo Leopardi
- Guillaume Apollinaire
- Gustaf Fröding
- Gustavo Adolfo Bécquer
- Hans Christian Andersen
- Heinrich Heine
- Henrik Wergeland
- Hilaire Belloc
- Homer
- Isaac Rosenberg
- James Joyce
- John Clare
- John Donne
- John Keats
- Jonathan Swift
- Joyce Kilmer
- Kālidāsa
- Katharine Tynan
- Letitia Elizabeth Landon
- Li Qingzhao
- Lola Ridge
- Lord Byron
- Lucretius
- Michael Field
- Mihai Eminescu
- Mirabai
- Nikolay Gumilyov
- Phillis Wheatley
- Pindar
- Rabindranath Tagore
- Robert Browning
- Robert Herrick
- Rumi
- Saadi
- San Juan de la Cruz
- Sappho
- Sergei Yesenin
- Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
- Su Shi
- Thomas Gray
- Thomas Moore
- Vachel Lindsay
- Walt Whitman
- William Blake
- William Shakespeare