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362 Poets34 languages

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Charles-Pierre Baudelaire

French19th century
5 Poems5 Analyses
Faiz Ahmed Faiz portrait

Faiz Ahmed Faiz

Urdu20th centuryPakistan
5 Poems5 Analyses
Maya Angelou portrait

Maya Angelou

English20th CenturyUnited States
5 Poems8 Analyses
Percy Bysshe Shelley portrait

Percy Bysshe Shelley

EnglishRomantic EraUnited Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland
5 Poems6 Analyses
Thomas Hardy portrait

Thomas Hardy

EnglishVictorian EraUnited Kingdom
5 Poems7 Analyses
حسان بن ثابت portrait

حسان بن ثابتHassan ibn Thabit

ArabicIslamic eraMedina
5 Poems6 Analyses
میر تقی میر portrait

میر تقی میرMir Taqi Mir

Urdu18th centuryMughal Empire
5 Poems5 Analyses
Bulleh Shah portrait

Bulleh Shah

PunjabiLate 17th to mid-18th centuryUch
4 Poems5 Analyses
Emily Dickinson portrait

Emily Dickinson

English19th centuryUnited States
4 Poems7 Analyses
John Donne portrait

John Donne

EnglishMetaphysical poetry, early 17th centuryKingdom of England
4 Poems6 Analyses

Ka'b bin Zuhayr

ArabicIslamic eraArabian Peninsula
4 Poems6 Analyses
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