Here is a collection of poems reflecting, in one way or the other, on the general meaning of life. These are poems about life, its meaning or a lack thereof. These works span the entire breadth of recorded literary history and represent most stylistic movements and major languages (even though all poems and articles in this section are in English or they were translated into English).
- The Courage Of Shutting-Up by Sylvia Plath
- Temper Of Time by Sylvia Plath
- Sonnet To Satan by Sylvia Plath
- Sleep In The Mojave Desert by Sylvia Plath
- Monologue At 3 AM by Sylvia Plath
- Electra On Azalea Path by Sylvia Plath
- Bluebeard by Sylvia Plath
- Totem by Sylvia Plath
- Three Women by Sylvia Plath
- Stillborn by Sylvia Plath
- Snakecharmer by Sylvia Plath
- Private Ground by Sylvia Plath
- Perseus by Sylvia Plath
- Snakecharmer by Sylvia Plath
- Private Ground by Sylvia Plath
- Perseus by Sylvia Plath
- Medallion by Sylvia Plath
- Medallion by Sylvia Plath
- Elm by Sylvia Plath
- Eavesdropper by Sylvia Plath
- Eclogues by Thomas Chatterton
- The Dead Woman by Pablo Neruda, La Muerta
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- Cats by Arthur Seymour John Tessimond
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- Echo by Thomas Moore
- Come, Send Round the Wine by Thomas Moore
- Henry Clay’s Mouth by Thomas Lux
- Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray
- Autumn Leaves by Thomas J Camp
- The Pleasures of Melancholy by Thomas Warton
- The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Henry Clay’s Mouth by Thomas Lux
- The Mocking Bird by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- Manifestations by Tom Shea
- Edgar Allan Poe by Timothy Thomas Fortune
- I Have News For You by Tony Hoagland
- Don’t Tell Anyone by Tony Hoagland
- Jerusalem Delivered – Book 06 – part 06 by Torquato Tasso
- With a Bouquet of Twelve Roses by Vachel Lindsay
- What the Rattlesnake Said by Vachel Lindsay
- The Song of the Garden-Toad by Vachel Lindsay
- The Master of the Dance by Vachel Lindsay
- The Jingo and the Minstrel by Vachel Lindsay
- The Chinese Nightingale by Vachel Lindsay
- The Beggar’s Valentine by Vachel Lindsay
- Star of My Heart by Vachel Lindsay
- Queen Mab in the Village by Vachel Lindsay
- Genesis by Vachel Lindsay
- Eden in Winter by Vachel Lindsay