Top Free Verse Poems

Free Verse Poetry

by Walt Whitman

I celebrate myself, and sing myself, And what I assume you shall assume...

Whitman's seminal work broke new ground with its free-flowing structure and celebration of the individual.

by T.S. Eliot

Let us go then, you and I, When the evening is spread out against the sky...

Eliot's modernist masterpiece utilizes free verse to delve into the psyche of its introspective narrator.

by William Carlos Williams

so much depends upon a red wheel barrow...

A minimalist depiction of a simple object, highlighting the significance found in everyday moments.

by Allen Ginsberg

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked...

Ginsberg's raw and unfiltered expression epitomizes the freedom and intensity of free verse.

by Marianne Moore

I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle...

Moore's contemplative piece examines the purpose and value of poetry itself.