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- Because I could not stop for Death. by Emily Dickinson. ‘Because I could not stop for death,’ Dickinson’s best-known poem, is a depiction of one speaker’s journey into the afterlife with personified “Death” leading the way.
- The Raven. by Edgar Allan Poe. ‘The Raven’ by Edgar Allan Poe presents an eerie raven who incessantly knocks over the speaker’s door and says only one word – “Nevermore.”
- O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman. Saddened by the results of the American civil war, Walt Whitman wrote the elegy, ‘O Captain! My Captain!’ in memory of deceased American President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening. by Robert Frost. Robert Frost, aka ‘nature boy,’ penned this lovely poem, ‘Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening’ in 1922, subsequently published with his long poem, ‘New Hampshire’.
Mar 7, 2019 · A list of poems that have sunk deep into our collective consciousness as cultural icons, from Frost's "The Road Not Taken" to Angelou's "Still I Rise". See also some bonus poems and the reasons behind the choices.
Find the best poems by searching our collection of over 10,000 poems by classic and contemporary poets, including Maya Angelou, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Juan Felipe Herrera, Langston Hughes, Sylvia Plath, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, Walt Whitman, and more.
- 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,
Sep 28, 2016 · A selection of classic American poems by Anne Bradstreet, Walt Whitman, Emily Dickinson, and others, each no longer than 14 lines. Learn about the history, themes, and styles of American verse through these mini-masterpieces.
Dec 23, 2019 · Hannah Aizenman writes about twenty-five of the best poems published in The New Yorker in 2019, including works by Rita Dove, Sharon Olds, Ciaran Carson, Ariel Francisco, Aria Aber, Kwame Dawes...
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