Here are links to poems I love. See also posts on poetry.
Anon Western Wind
Maya Angelou Still I Rise
Matthew Arnold Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold To Marguerite: Continued
Matthew Arnold: The Scholar-Gipsy
WH Auden: As I Walked Out One Evening
WH Auden: Funeral Blues
WH Auden: If I Could Tell You
WH Auden: In Memory of WB Yeats
WH Auden Lullaby
WH Auden: O Tell Me the Truth Love
WH Auden: Night Mail
WH Auden: Refugee Blues
WH Auden: September 1, 1939
WH Auden: The Unknown Citizen
WH Auden Musee des Beaux Arts
John Betjeman: A Subaltern’s Love Song
Sujata Bhatt: A Different History
Elizabeth Barrett Browning How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
Robert Browning: Andrea del Sarto
Robert Browning: The Last Ride Together
Sharon Bryan: Sweater Weather: A Love Song to Language
Robert Burns: A Red, Red Rose
Robert Burns: John Anderson, My Jo
Billy Collins: Birthday
Billy Collins: Fool Me Good
Billy Collins: Forgetfulness
Billy Collins: House
Billy Collins: Litany
Billy Collins: The Lanyard
Billy Collins: The Trouble with Poetry
Wendy Cope A Vow
Wendy Cope: Flowers
Wendy Cope From June to December Summer Villanelle
Wendy Cope: Spared
Wendy Cope: Valentine
Wendy Cope Exchange of Letters
Emily Dickinson Wild Nights! Wild Nights!
John Donne: The Good-Morrow
Rita Dove: Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967
TS Eliot: Rhapsody on a Windy Night
TS Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
James Fenton Hinterhof
James Fenton: In Paris with You
Lawrence Ferlinghetti I Am Waiting
Lawrence Ferlinghetti Sometime During Eternity
Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Robert Frost The Road Not Taken
John Fuller Valentine
Leah Furnas: The Longly-Weds Know
Allen Ginsberg: A Supermarket in California
Oliver Goldsmith The Deserted Village
Barbara Hamby: Ode to American English
Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush
Adrian Henri: Tonight at Noon
Adrian Henri Love Is…
Ted Hughes: The Thought-Fox
Ben Jonson: To Celia
John Keats Bright Star
John Keats La Belle Dame Sans Merci
John Keats Ode to Autumn
John Keats: Ode to a Grecian Urn
John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale
John Keats On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer
Philip Larkin: Annus Mirabilis
Philip Larkin Days
Philip Larkin: Homage to a Government
Philip Larkin: Sad steps
Philip Larkin: The Old Fools
Philip Larkin The Trees
Philip Larkin MCMXIV
Philip Larkin Toads
Philip Larkin Next, Please
Philip Larkin Vers de Societe
Philip Larkin Aubade
DH Lawrence Piano
Roger McGough From Summer with Monika
Roger McGough Ten Milk Bottles
Louis MacNeice Snow
Louis MacNeice The Sunlight on the Garden
Walter de la Mare The Listeners
Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
John Masefield Sea Fever
Edna St Vincent Millay What Lips My Have Kissed, and Where, and Why
Edwin Morgan One Cigarette
Edwin Muir The Confirmation
Ogden Nash Reprise
Alfred Noyes The Highwayman
Brian Patten: First Love
Brian Patten: Dressed
Brian Patten: That Dress, This Shirt
Christina Rossetti Remember
William Shakespeare Sonnet 18
William Shakespeare Sonnet 30
William Shakespeare Sonnet 73
William Shakespeare Sonnet 104
William Shakespeare: Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare Sonnet 129
William Shakespeare Sonnet 130
Percy Bysshe Shelley To a Skylark
Lemn Sissay Invisible Kisses
Debra Spencer: Day Bath
Debra Spencer: The Discovery of Sex
Alfred Tennyson Come into the Garden, Maud
Alfred Tennyson Crossing the Bar
Alfred Tennyson The Lady of Shallot
Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses
Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go into that Gentle Night
Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill
Dylan Thomas: In My Craft or Sullen Art
CK Williams Love: Beginnings
William Wordsworth Lines Written a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey
William Wordsworth Ode on Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
William Wordsworth She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways
William Wordsworth The Daffodils
WB Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium
WB Yeats: The Second Coming
WB Yeats: The Wild Swans of Coole
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