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- “Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare (1564-1616) 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,
- “Holy Sonnet 10: Death, Be Not Proud” by John Donne (1572-1631) Death, be not proud, though some have called thee. Mighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;
- “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth (1770-1850) I wandered lonely as a cloud. That floats on high o’er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;
- “A Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) What the heart of the young man said to the Psalmist. Tell me not, in mournful numbers, Life is but an empty dream!
- “Sonnet 18” by William Shakespeare. 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,
- “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson. Because I could not stop for Death— He kindly stopped for me— The Carriage held but just Ourselves—
- “She Walks in Beauty” by Lord Byron. She walks in beauty, like the night. Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that’s best of dark and bright. Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
- “O Captain! My Captain!” by Walt Whitman. O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought is won,
- 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,
- Sonnet 130: My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun. By William Shakespeare (1564-1616) While William Shakespeare is best known among the general public for his many brilliant plays, scholars have also been endlessly fascinated by his poetry, particularly his extensive collection of love sonnets.
- Ozymandias. By Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) Percy Shelley’s most acclaimed and famous poem addresses, in all of fourteen lines, the enormity of time, the inevitability of death, and the necessity of all people being condemned to obscurity.
- To Autumn. By John Keats (1795-1821) John Keats’ ode to perhaps the least-romanticized of the seasons is mostly a catalogue of remarkable and beautiful detail and naturalistic imagery.
- Number 43: How Do I Love Thee? By Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-61) Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s most famous poem is a love sonnet, taken from a celebrated collection of love sonnets.
1. William Shakespeare, Sonnet 18. This may not be Shakespeare’s best sonnet, but it’s undoubtedly his best-known, and it’s the first great sonnet to appear in Shakespeare’s Sonnets, which was published in 1609. Its opening line is among the most famous in all of literature.
Mar 7, 2019 · Langston Hughes, “ Harlem ”. One of the defining works of the Harlem Renaissance, by its greatest poet. It also, of course, gave inspiration and lent a title to another literary classic: Lorraine Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun. Sylvia Plath, “ Daddy ”. To be quite honest, my favorite Plath poem is “ The Applicant.”.
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Jan 22, 2021 · Read the most famous poems from Edgar Allen Poe, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, and dozens more poets who made their mark on the English language.