Below are a collection of my favourite poems, I will update every so often.
Poison tree by William Blake
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
The Lover Pleads with His Friend for Old Friends by William Butler Yeats
No Cowards Soul Is Mine by Emily Bronte
Quiet girl by Langston Hughes
Invitation by Shel Silverstein
Seascape by Stephen Spender
Welcome To Society by Erin Hansen
The Waking by Theodore Roethke
The Fly by William Blake
A Few Words On The Soul by Wisława Szymborska
Fire & Ice by Robert Frost
Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Suicide Kid by Charles Bukowski,
Crossing the Bar by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Battle Of Goddeu by Taliesin
The Prisoners by Robert Hayden
The Fox by Carl Day-Lewis
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Blighters by Siegfried Sassoon
Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
How Do I Love Thee? by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Dreams Deferred by Langston Hughes.
O Captain! My Captain by Walt Whitman.
Seeker Of Truth by E.E Cummings.
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou.
Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe
At Eighty – Edwin Morgan
Seven Ages Of Man by William Shakespeare.
Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allan Poe.
Brown Penny by William Butler Yeats.
All The Worlds A Stage. by William Shakespeare.
I’m Explaining A Few Things by Pablo Neruda
Porcupine by Roald Dahl.
The Picnic by Edwin Morgan
Savage by Carl Sandburg.
If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda
Nothing Gold Can Stay by Robrt Frost
Last Night I Dreamnt Of Chickens by Jack Prelutsky
Sonnet To Liberty by Oscar Wilde
Messy Room by Shel Silverstein
My Papas Waltz by Theodore Roethke
There Is Another Sky by Emily Dickinson
Baggage by Jackie Kay
My Voice by Oscar Wilde
The Fall by Russel Edson
Sleep by Sir Philip Sidney
Little Big Man by Rabindranath Tagore
Cat Food Rap by Anne Armstrong
Beautiful Mind by Elizabeth Burns
Cross by Angela Cleland
If by Rudyard Kipling
I do not love you except because I love you by Pablo Neruda
Invictus by William Ernest Henley
Last words by Dannie Abse
Song of man XXVby Khalil Gibran
Live sonnet XI by Pablo Neruda
And what do you think about Hold fast to dreams by Langston Hughes? I have lot’s of thouhts about it and I’m going to post them soon!)
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Yeah, I really like it 🙂 Great use of figurative language. It has it all, personification, metaphors and imagery. I actually find it a rather dark poem the more I read it. Thanks for following, really ike your blog:)
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