Hey, I know that one!
- Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? (Sonnet 18)
- Roses are Red / Violets are Blue
- The Raven (“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary”)
- There once was a man from Nantucket
- The New Colossus (“Give me your tired, your poor, / Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free”)
- O Captain! My Captain!
- This Is Just To Say (“I have eaten the plumbs that were in the icebox”)
- No Man is an Island
- The Tyger (“Tyger! Tyger! burning bright”)
- Green Grow the Rashes
- How do I love thee? Let me count the ways (Sonnet from the Portuguese 43)
- Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking
- I’m Nobody! Who are you?
- Because I could not stop for Death
- If—
- The Second Coming (“Things fall apart”)
- We Wear the Mask
- The Road Not Taken
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- Sacred Emily (“Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose.“)
- The Wasteland (“April is the cruellest month”)
If you study poetry you will study these
- The Canterbury Tales
- The Rape of the Lock
- The Red Wheelbarrow
- Song of Myself
- The Faerie Queene
- The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (“Come live with me and be my love”)
- The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd (a reply to Marlowe)
- “My mistress’ eyes are nothing like the sun” (Sonnet 130)
- A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
- To My Dear and Loving Husband
- The Lamb
- The Little Black Boy
- Lines (Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey, on Revisiting the Banks of the Wye during a Tour, July 13, 1798)
- Kubla Khan
- Ozymandias
- Ode to a Nightingale
- Ode on a Grecian Urn
- To Autumn
- Crossing Brooklyn Ferry
- Dover Beach
- My Life had stood - a Loaded Gun -
- To an Athlete Dying Young
- Annabel Lee
- Sailing to Byzantium (“That is no country for old men”)
- Easter, 1916
- Richard Corey
- In Flanders Fields
- Sympathy (“I know why the caged bird sings”)
- Mending Wall
- Birches
- Patterns
- Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird
- In a Station of the Metro
- The Fish
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock (“Do I dare to eat a peach?“)
- The Hollow Men (“This is the way the world ends… Not with a bang but a whimper”)
- Ars Poetica
Awesome and popular poems
- “When my love swears that she is made of truth / I do believe her, though I know she lies” (Sonnet 138)
- Easter Wings
- Verses upon the Burning of our House
- My Heart Leaps Up (when I behold / a rainbow in the sky)
- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- The Song of Hiawatha
- The Lotos-Eaters
- When I Heard the Learn’d Astronomer
- Hope is the thing with feathers
- Tell all the truth but tell it slant -
- She Walks in Beauty
- A Dream within a Dream
- Pied Beauty
- When You are Old
- Design
- Chicago
- The Emperor of Ice-Cream
- Poetry (“I, too, dislike it”)
Great poems you might come across
- “Let me not to the marriage of true minds” (Sonnet 107)
- Death Be Not Proud (Holy Sonnet X)
- A Song for St. Cecilia’s Day
- London
- Resolution and Independence
- When we Two Parted
- On Being Brought from Africa to America
- To his Excellency General Washington
- Ode to Psyche
- In Memoriam A. H. H.
- My Last Duchess
- Remembrance
- A Noiseless Patient Spider
- I heard a Fly buzz - when I died -
- The Darkling Thrush
- Endymion (“A thing of beauty is a joy for ever”)
- The Wood-Pile
- Dulce et Decorum est
- Ode to the West Wind
- The Snow Man
- The Great Figure
- Poem (“As the cat / climbed over / the top of”)
- Love on the Farm
- Snake
- A Pact (“I make a pact with you, Walt Whitman—”)
- Suicide in the Trenches
- Dreamers
- “They”
- Oread
- Epitaph
- The Steeple-Jack
- What Are Years?
- Old Possum’s Book of Practical Cats
Poems that poets like
- Astrophel and Stella
- To Penshurst
- The Altar
- The Massachusetts Bay Psalm Book
- L’Allegro
- The Author to Her Book
- A Description of a City Shower
- Ode on the death of a favorite cat
- Don Juan
- To a Skylark
- Adonais (An Elegy on the Death of John Keats…)
- The Fall of Hyperion: A Dream
- To the Right Honorable William, Earl of Dartmouth
- On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
- On Seeing the Elgin Marbles
- Lamia
- Ulysses
- A narrow Fellow in the Grass
- In an Artist’s Studio
- Jabberwocky
- Hap
- Leda and the Swan
- Picasso (“One whom some were certainly following was one who was completely charming.“)
- Tender Buttons
- Sunday Morning
- A Rabbit as King of the Ghosts
- To Elsie
- Landscape with the Fall of Icarus
- The River-Merchant’s Wife: a Letter
- The Cantos
- Helen
- The Walls Do Not Fall
- Little Gidding
Obscure poems
- Song: to Celia (I) and (II)
- To Althea, from Prison
- Bermudas
- Upon a Spider Catching a Fly
- A Nocturnal Reverie
- The Vanity of Human Wishes
- The Deserted Village
- Hyperion
- Poem from New English Canaan
- The Day of Doom
- On the Immensity of Creation
- To Aribert. October, 1790
- On the Emigration to America and Peopling the Western Country
- The Bishop Orders His Tomb at Saint Praxed’s Church
- Modern Love
- THE BLACK RIDERS
- The Soldier
- Poetry (“Over the shop where silk is sold / Still the dragon kites are flying.“)
- The Weather-Cock Points South
- Stanzas in Meditation
- Anecdote of the Jar
- Of Mere Being
- Portrait of a Lady (“Your thighs are appletrees”)
- Bavarian Gentians
- The Mind Is an Enchanting Thing