Best Poems

T. S. Eliot – The Hollow Men
Edna St. Vincent Millay – A few figs from Thistles – first fig and second fig
Edgar Lee Masters – Silence
Walt Whitman – A noiseless patient spider
Walt Whitman – Oh Captain My Captain
Emily Dickinson – Hope is the thing with feathers
Edgar Lee Masters – Carl Hamblin (Spoon river anthology)
Robert Frost – Fire and Ice
Robert Frost – The Road not taken
Robert Frost – Stopping by the Woods on a snowy evening
Carl Sandburg – Fog
Carl Sandburg – They have yarns
T.S. Eliot – The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
Archibald Mac Leish – Ars Poetica
e. e. cummings – 1) a
e. e. cummings – What if a much of a which of a wind
e. e. cummings – I sing of Olaf
Langston Hughes – What becomes a dream deferred?
Ogden Nash – The anatomy of happiness
Edgar Allen Poe – The Raven
Edgar Allen Poe -the haunted palace
Wilfred Owen – Dulce et decorum est
Wilfred Owen – Greater Love
Sharon Olds – the knowing
W. H. Auden – The unknown citizen
W. H. Auden – Q Where are you going
Dylan Thomas – Do not go gentle into that good night
Christina Rossetti – Goblin Market
Lewis Carroll – Jabberwocky
Lewis Carroll – the walrus and the carpenter
Tennessee Williams – Nonno’s poem from Night of the Iguana
David Bowie – Cygnet Committee
Edwin Arlington Robinson – Richard Cory
Robert Frost – Design
Paul Simon – Patterns
Marianne Moore – what are years?
Edna St. Vincent Millay – recuerdo
Wilfred Owen – insensibility
e. e. cummings – all ignorance toboggans into know
e. e. cummings – pity this busy monster man unkind
Wilfred Owen – apologia pro poemate meo
Wilfred Owen – Insensibility
Thomas Gray – Elegy written in a country churchyard
Rainer Maria Rilke – the Panther