100+ Best-Loved Poems

Over 100 selections embrace a wide range of themes and motifs: meditations on the meaning of existence, celebrations of life's joys, appreciations of the natural world, and many more.Here are some of the most-loved poems in the English language, chosen not merely for their popularity, but for their literary quality as well. Dating from the Middle Ages to the 20th century, these splendid poems remain evergreen in their capacity to engage our minds and refresh our spirits.This book is intended for teachers and true literature enthusiasts.Contents:Dover Beach by Matthew ArnoldThe Lamb by William BlakeThe Sick Rose by William BlakeThe Tyger by William BlakeLondon by William BlakeMy Last Duchess by Robert BrowningThanatopsis by William Cullen BryantA Red, Red Rose by Robert BurnsTo A Mouse, On Turning Her Up In Her Nest With The Plough by Robert BurnsShe Walks in Beauty by George Gordon ByronThe Destruction of Sennacherib by George Gordon ByronSo We’ll Go No More a Roving by George Gordon ByronKubla Khan by Samuel Taylor Coleridge“I’m Nobody! Who Are You?” by Emily Dickinson“This Is My Letter to the World” by Emily Dickinson“I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died” by Emily Dickinson“Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily DickinsonJabberwocky by Charles Lutwidge DodgsonThe Good Morrow by John DonneHoly Sonnet X by John DonneHoly Sonnet XIV by John DonneHymn: Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument by Ralph Waldo EmersonThe Road Not Taken by Robert FrostElegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas GrayOde on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes by Thomas GrayThe Darkling Thrush by Thomas HardyLove Bade Me Welcome by George HerbertTo the Virgins, to Make Much of Time by Robert HerrickUpon Julia's Clothes by Robert HerrickThe Chambered Nautilus by Oliver Wendell HolmesOld Ironsides by Oliver Wendell HolmesPied Beauty by Gerard Manley HopkinsThe Windhover: To Christ Our Lord by Gerard Manley HopkinsTo An Athlete Dying Young by Alfred Edward HousmanAbou Ben Adhem by James Henry Leigh HuntJenny Kissed Me by James Henry Leigh HuntTo Celia by Ben JonsonOn My First Son by Ben JonsonOn First Looking into Chapman’s Homer by John KeatsOde to a Nightingale by John KeatsOde on a Grecian Urn by John KeatsLa Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats“When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” by John KeatsGunga Din by Rudyard KiplingRecessional by Rudyard KiplingIf - by Rudyard KiplingThe Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowThe Children’s Hour by Henry Wadsworth LongfellowTo Lucasta, Going to the Wars by Richard LovelaceThe Passionate Shepherd to His Love by Christopher MarloweTo His Coy Mistress Andrew MarvellLucifer in Starlight by George MeredithFirst Fig by Edna St. Vincent MillaySonnet: 19. On His Blindness by John MiltonSonnet: 23. On His Deceased Wife by John Milton“Adieu, Farewell Earth’s Bliss” by Thomas NasheAnthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred OwenTo Helen by Edgar Allan PoeThe Raven by Edgar Allan PoeAnnabel Lee by Edgar Allan PoeRichard Cory by Edwin Arlington RobinsonMiniver Cheevy by Edwin Arlington RobinsonA Birthday by Christina Georgina RossettiChicago by Carl SandburgFog by Carl SandburgSonnet XVIII by William ShakespeareSonnet LXXIII by William ShakespeareSonnet XCIV by William ShakespeareSonnet CXVI by William ShakespeareOzymandias by Percy Bysshe ShelleyOde to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe ShelleyTo a Skylark by Percy Bysshe ShelleyRequiem by Robert Louis Stevenson“Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?” by John SucklingThe Charge of the Light Brigade by Alfred TennysonCrossing the Bar by Alfred TennysonThe Retreat by Henry VaughanSong by Edmund WallerI Hear America Singing by Walt WhitmanO Captain! My Captain! by Walt WhitmanA Noiseless Patient Spider by Walt WhitmanBarbara Frietchie by John Greenleaf WhittierComposed upon Westminster Bridge, Sept. 3, 1802 by William Wordsworth“I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” by William Wordsworth“The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon” by William WordsworthThe Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed by Thomas WyattThe Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler YeatsWhen You Are Old by William Butler YeatsThe Second Coming by William Butler YeatsTo My Dear and Loving Husband by Anne BradstreetThe Prologue by Anne BradstreetThe Author To Her Book by Anne BradstreetBefore the Birth of One of Her Children by Anne BradstreetReturn to Tomhanick by Ann Eliza BleeckerAn Evening Prospect by Ann Eliza BleeckerOn Imagination by Phillis WheatleyAn Hymn to the Evening by Phillis WheatleyKitchener by George OrwellRomance by George OrwellSometimes in the middle autumn days by George OrwellA Dressed Man by George OrwellA Little Poem by George OrwellThe Pagan by George Orwell