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Apr 8, 2020 · Robert Frost, ‘ Fire and Ice ’. This nine-line poem from 1920, just two years after the end of the First World War, and a time when revolution, apocalypse, and social and political chaos were on many people’s minds. The poem captures this post-war mood, and is even shorter than Frost’s ‘The Road Not Taken’.
- ‘I wandered lonely as a cloud’ by William Wordsworth. The first poem on this list is one of the most popular and the easiest to love. ‘ I wandered lonely as a cloud,’ sometimes known as ‘Daffodils’ is a beautiful and uplifting poem that speaks about life, love, and happy memories in moments of despair.
- ‘Sonnet 18’ by William Shakespeare. Anyone, not just lovers of poetry, will likely know at least a few lines from ‘Sonnet 18’. Here are the first four
- ‘The Road Not Taken’ by Robert Frost. ‘The Road Not Taken’ is likely Frost’s most popular poem. He uses language that is easy to understand and relate to.
- ‘Death Be Not Proud’ by John Donne. This poem is also known as ‘Holy Sonnet 10’. In it, John personifies death and depicts “him” as something that we should not be afraid of.
- “There is no Frigate like a Book” by Emily Dickinson. There is no Frigate like a Book. To take us Lands away. Nor any Coursers like a Page. Of prancing Poetry
- “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams. so much depends. upon. a red wheel. barrow. glazed with rain. water. beside the white. chickens. One very simple poem is “The Red Wheelbarrow.”
- “Poem” by Langston Hughes. The night is beautiful, So the faces of my people. The stars are beautiful, So the eyes of my people. Beautiful, also, is the sun.
- “Lesbia Railing” by Gaius Valerius Catullus. Lesbia forever on me rails. To talk of me she never fails. Now, hang me, but for all her art, I find that I have gained her heart.
Famous Short Poems. Published: June 2018. Examples of short famous poems by famous poets such as Langston Hughes, Robert Frost, Edna St. Vincent Millay, and Sara Teasdale. Short Funny poems by famous poets such as Ogden Nash and Shel Silverstein and short poems for children by famous poets including A. A. Milne and Christina Rossetti.
- Percy Shelley – Ozymandias
- Robert Frost – Fire & Ice
- Emily Dickinson – I Heard A Fly Buzz – When I Died
- William Shakespeare – Shall I Compare Thee to A Summer’S Day?
- Langston Hughes – So Tired Blues
- Edgar Allan Poe – A Dream Within A Dream
- John Donne – No Man Is An Island
- Ogden Nash – A Word to Husbands
- Natasha Tretheway – Housekeeping
- Strickland Gillilan – Lines on The Antiquity of Microbes
I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: ‘Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, The hand that mocked th...
Some say the world will end in fire, Some say in ice. From what I’ve tasted of desire I hold with those who favour fire. But if it had to perish twice, I think I know enough of hate To say that for destruction ice Is also great And would suffice. Of course poetic mastermind Robert Frost was going to make his way onto this list. Interestingly, this ...
I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air – Between the Heaves of Storm – The Eyes around – had wrung them dry – And Breaths were gathering firm For that last Onset – when the King Be witnessed – in the Room – I willed my Keepsakes – Signed away What portion of me be Assignable – and then it was ...
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, By chance, or nature’s changing course, untrimmed...
With the sun in my hand Gonna throw the sun Way across the land- Cause I’m tired, Tired as I can be Hughes was one of the earliest pioneers of jazz poetry. For that alone, he could have made this list, but this poem is a personal favourite. The desire to speed up time to get to bed earlier is such a universal feeling, and Langston describes it with...
Take this kiss upon the brow! And, in parting from you now, Thus much let me avow- You are not wrong, who deem That my days have been a dream; Yet if hope has flown away In a night, or in a day, In a vision, or in none, Is it therefore the less gone? All that we see or seem Is but a dream within a dream. I stand amid the roar Of a surf-tormented sh...
No man is an island, Entire of itself, Every man is a piece of the continent, A part of the main. If a clod be washed away by the sea, Europe is the less. As well as if a promontory were. As well as if a manor of thy friend’s Or of thine own were: Any man’s death diminishes me, Because I am involved in mankind, And therefore never send to know for ...
To keep your marriage brimming With love in the loving cup, Whenever you’re wrong, admit it; Whenever you’re right, shut up. Nash always claimed to think in rhyme, but it’s his truthful tongue-in-cheek execution that gets A Word To Husbands on the list. The nagging temptation to say “I told you so” is ever-present in relationships, most likely sinc...
We mourn the broken things, chair legs wrenched from their seats, chipped plates, the threadbare clothes. We work the magic of glue, drive the nails, mend the holes. We save what we can, melt small pieces of soap, gather fallen pecans, keep neck bones for soup. Beating rugs against the house, we watch dust, lit like stars, spreading across the yard...
Adam. Had ’em No list of the greatest short poems ever would be complete without… the shortest poem ever. While it’s not quite a one line poem, there are some other contenders, such as Aram Saroyan’s four-legged m, but the spot had to go to Gillilan. Using just three words, and a ridiculously scientific title, he scores a quick laugh. Plus, his bri...
2. The Power of a Smile. Tupac Shakur. 3. The Lesson. Maya Angelou. 4. a total stranger one black day. Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings.
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