lyric poem
C2027
concept
A lyric poem is a short, musical verse that expresses the personal emotions, thoughts, or feelings of a single speaker rather than telling a narrative story.
Aliases (6)
- elegy ×6
- confessional poem ×3
- Pindaric ode ×1
- lyrical poem ×1
- short poem ×1
- villanelle ×1
Instances (31)
- She Walks in Beauty
- The Seafarer ("elegy")
- The Wanderer ("elegy")
- Kubla Khan
- The Bells ("lyrical poem")
- A Dream Within a Dream
- The Chambered Nautilus
- The Book of the Duchess ("elegy")
- Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard ("elegy")
- Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College
- The Progress of Poesy ("Pindaric ode")
- Lady Lazarus ("confessional poem")
- Tulips ("confessional poem")
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
- O Captain! My Captain! ("elegy")
- Daddy ("confessional poem")
- When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d ("elegy")
- Mad Girl’s Love Song ("villanelle")
- Because I could not stop for Death
- I taste a liquor never brewed
- Hope is the thing with feathers
- I cannot live with You
- Wild nights—Wild nights!
- I died for Beauty—but was scarce
- A Bird came down the Walk
- There’s a certain Slant of light
- I heard a Fly buzz—when I died
- This World is not Conclusion
- I felt a Funeral, in my Brain
- My Life had stood—a Loaded Gun