poem

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

If you have heard of any of these poem, congrats you are a nerd :)

• Briefly it Enters, and Briefly Speaks

This… I do not like

• The Tay Bridge Disaster