Find Poems in Claude, ChatGPT and Other AI Assistants

By PoemShip

You can now ask your AI assistant for a poem and have it look in the PoemShip library. Tell it what is going on, and it comes back with real poems by real poets, a few opening lines of each, and a link to read the rest.

It works through MCP, the open standard that lets assistants use outside sources. PoemShip is free to connect and needs no account.

What you can ask

  • "I just lost my dad. Find me a poem that might help."
  • "A short poem to thank my mother, something I can write in a card."
  • "An easy, hopeful poem I could learn by heart this week."
  • "What is Frost's Nothing Gold Can Stay about?"
  • "Help me memorize a poem in five days."

The assistant can search by mood, subject, occasion, poet or a few words you remember from a line. It can open one of our collections, tell you about a poet, give you a summary and the opening of an analysis, show the poem of the day, and lay out a day by day plan for learning a poem by heart.

How to connect

The address is the same everywhere:

https://poemship.com/mcp

Claude. Open Settings, then Connectors, choose to add a custom connector and paste the address. No sign-in is needed.

Claude Code. Run this once:

claude mcp add --transport http poemship https://poemship.com/mcp

ChatGPT. In Settings, open Apps and Connectors, turn on developer mode in the advanced settings, then create a connector with the address above and no authentication. The menu names change from time to time, and developer mode is not on every plan.

Other assistants. Any client that supports MCP over Streamable HTTP takes the address as it is.

What the assistant gets

For every poem it gets the title, the poet, the number of lines, the opening lines and a link to the full poem on PoemShip. Very short poems come whole. Longer ones are for reading on the site, so the assistant will always give you the link.

The library holds classic and modern poetry in English and other European languages, including Russian and Belarusian. Searching by what you need from a poem, such as comfort or calm, works for English, Russian and Belarusian poems.

Privacy

The connection has no account and no sign-in, and it only reads the public library. Your assistant sends a search, for example a mood, a subject or a few words, and gets poems back. Our Privacy Policy covers the technical data any visit to the site involves.

When you want more

An assistant is good for a quick find. For a deeper search, describe your mood or situation in your own words in Smart Search. To make a poem yours, open it in the trainer and learn it by heart.

Questions or problems with the connection: write to us through the contact page.