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FAMOUS POETRY ONLINE

Poetry

The following famous poems by our favourite poets and authors are highly recommended and make fascinating reading and are listed in no particular order:

  • Sonnets from the Portuguese - 14 by the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  • The Tiger poem by William Blake ( Tiger Tiger burning bright in the forests of the night )

  • Nightingales a famous poem by Robert Bridges ( Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come )

  • A Red Red Rose a famous poem by Robert Burns ( O my Luve's like a red, red rose )

  • She Walks In Beauty a famous poem by Lord Byron ( She walks in beauty, like the night )

  • Rime of the Ancient Mariner a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three )

  • Heart, we will forget him a famous love poem by Emily Dickinson (Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! )

  • Macavity - The Mystery Cat a famous, funny poem by T S Eliot ( Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw )

  • Mending Wall a famous poem by Robert Frost ( Something there is that doesn't love a wall )

  • Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray ( The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day )

  • Simples a famous poem by James Joyce ( Of cool sweet dew and radiance mild )

  • The Song of Hiawatha a great famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( By the shore of Gitchie Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, )

  • Madonna of the Evening Flowers a poem by Amy Lowell ( All day long I have been working, Now I am tired. )

  • When I consider how my light is spent  - a famous poem by John Milton ( When I consider how my light is spent )

  • The Raven a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe ( Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary )

  • Goblin Market a famous poem by Christina Rossetti ( Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry )

  • Sonnet 18 by the Great, celebrated Bard, William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
    ( Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate )

  • Ode To The West Wind a famous poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley ( O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being )

  • The Lady of Shallot a famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson ( On either side the river lie long fields of barley and of rye )

  • Daffodils - I wandered lonely as a cloud a famous poem by William Wordsworth ( I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills )

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