PoemLake: A Poem on Every New Tab by György

Open a new tab and read a poem.

PoemLake replaces your new-tab page with a classic poem, set to be read in the moment before you start something else. Shakespeare, Dickinson, Keats, Baudelaire, Rilke, Heine, Darío, Camões and hundreds more, in English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch and Hungarian.

What you can do

• See a different poem on every new tab, or keep one poem for the whole day
• Choose your languages and how long you want the poems to be, down to sonnets and shorter
• Save favourites and come back to them
• Copy a link, or save a poem as a clean image to share
• Copy a ready-made citation for class or an essay
• Highlight a line on any web page, right-click, and find the poem on PoemLake
• Read today's poem from the toolbar button without leaving your page
• Use light or dark mode, or match your system

Quiet by design

Nearly 1,900 poems come inside the extension, so it opens instantly and works offline. There are no accounts, ads or tracking in the extension, and it cannot read the pages you visit. Your settings and favourites stay in your browser.

The search box, the right-click search and the "Read on PoemLake" links open poemlake.com, the free poetry library behind this extension, and only when you choose them. poemlake.com has its own privacy policy.

About the poems

The bundled poems are by poets who died by 1930, in the language they wrote in.

Keyboard shortcuts

• → or N: another poem
• ←: previous poem
• F: save or unsave