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Mar 7, 2019 · Louise Glück, “ Mock Orange “. One of those poems passed hand to hand between undergraduates who will grow up to become writers. Paul Laurence Dunbar, “ We Wear the Mask “. Dunbar’s most famous poem, and arguably his best, which biographer Paul Revell described as “a moving cry from the heart of suffering.
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If— by Rudyard Kipling | Poetry Foundation- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud by William Wordsworth | Poetry Foundation
- Dulce et Decorum Est by Wilfred Owen | Poetry Foundation
- Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley | Poetry Foundation
- The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot | Poetry Foundation
- The Second Coming by William Butler Yeats | Poetry Foundation
- Invictus by William Ernest Henley | Poetry Foundation
- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan… | Poetry Foundation
- 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,
- 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."
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11. Rudyard Kipling, ‘ If— ’. A classic poem about British stoicism, written in the 1890s although not published until 1910, ‘If—’ was voted the UK’s favourite poem in a 1995 poll. The poem is filled with famous lines, such as Kipling’s call to ‘fill the unforgiving minute / With sixty seconds’ worth of distance run’.
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For my unconquerable soul. In the fell clutch of circumstance. I have not winced nor cried aloud. Under the bludgeonings of chance. My head is bloody, but unbowed. Beyond this place of wrath and tears. Looms but the Horror of the shade, And yet the menace of the years. Finds, and shall find, me unafraid.
