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- Virgin by Kathleen Tankersley Young
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- The Applicant by Sylvia Plath
Source: The Collected Poems (Faber and Faber, 1989) This...
- Sea-Fever by John Masefield
British poet John Edward Masefield was born in...
- The Mother by Gwendolyn Brooks
Gwendolyn Brooks is one of the most influential and widely...
- A Litany for Survival by Audre Lorde
A collection of poems and essays by LGBTQ+ poets on topics...
- The Look by Sara Teasdale
Strephon kissed me in the spring, Sara Teasdale was born in...
- Gitanjali 35 by Rabindranath Tagore
Source: Rabindranath Tagore, "Gitanjali 35" from Gitanjali...
- I Sit and Sew by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson
Poet, essayist, diarist, and activist Alice Moore...
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- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan… | Poetry Foundation
- Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley | Poetry Foundation
- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth | Poetry Foundation
- The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot | Poetry Foundation
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- The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats | Poetry Foundation
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- Love Poems. A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns. Robert Burns wrote this romantic song in the Scots language to his bonnie lass in 1794. Roses are Red by Mother Goose.
- Metaphysical Poems. Song of Myself by Walt Whitman. One of the most influential and greatest poems of all times, from Whitman's collection, . O Captain! My Captain!
- Nature Poems. Afternoon on a Hill by Edna St. Vincent Millay. "I will be the gladdest thing under the sun!" Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost.
- "Off-Beat" Poems. The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot. A farcical poem about a "prude" in a "frock" who observes: "In the room the women come and go talking of Michelangelo."
- The Raven. by Edgar Allan Poe. Once upon a midnight dreary, While I pondered, weak and weary,
- Ozymandias. by Percy Bysshe Shelley. I met a traveler from an antique land. Who said: 'Two vast and trunkless legs of stone.
- The Road Not Taken. by Robert Frost. Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both.
- Annabel Lee. by Edgar Allan Poe. It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea,
Mar 7, 2019 · Today is the anniversary of the publication of Robert Frost’s iconic poem “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening,” a fact that spurred the Literary Hub office into a long conversation about their favorite poems, the most iconic poems written in English, and which poems we should all have already read (or at least be […]
Apr 29, 2020 · 1. Anonymous, ‘ Sir Patrick Spens ’. The King sits in Dunferline toun, Drinkin the blude-reid wine. ‘O whaur will A get a skeely skipper. Tae sail this new ship o mine?’. We’ll begin this selection of classic narrative poems with a quintessential type of poetic narrative: the ballad.
Jan 22, 2021 · 1. The Raven. by Edgar Allen Poe. Deep into that darkness peering, Long I stood there, wondering, fearing, Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortals. Ever dared to dream before; But the silence was unbroken, And the stillness gave no token, And the only word there spoken. Was the whispered word, "Lenore!" This I whispered, and an echo.
