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The following is a list of the top 100 most famous poems of all time in the English language. There's always room for debate when creating a "top 100" list, and let's face it, fame is a pretty fickle thing.
- Famous Poems About Death
“O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship...
- Famous Short Poems
“We wear the mask that grins and lies, It hides our cheeks...
- Famous Love Poems
“The wind was a torrent of darkness among the gusty trees....
- Ozymandias
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley. I met a traveller from...
- She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron
She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon, Lord Byron. She walks...
- The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus
The New Colossus by Emma Lazarus. Not like the brazen giant...
- The Charge of The Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
FAMOUS POEMS; TEACHING POETRY; POEM OF THE DAY; START HERE;...
- Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr
Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. Ay, tear her...
- Ode to The West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley. I O wild West...
- I Felt a Funeral in My Brain by Emily Dickinson
I felt a funeral in my brain by Emily Dickinson. I felt a...
- Famous Poems About Death
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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 · The most famous poem from Whitman’s celebrated Leaves of Grass, and selected by Jay Parini as the best American poem of all time. “Whitman reinvents American poetry in this peerless self-performance,” Parini writes, “finding cadences that seem utterly his own yet somehow keyed to the energy and rhythms of a young nation waking to its ...
A list of the 50 most prominent, influential, and greatest famous poets (and their poems) in history. This list includes photos and biographical information. This greatest poets ranking is determined by website visitors and today's readers of poetry.
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