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.
Works by many other poets -- Milton, Blake, Burns, Coleridge, Byron, Keats, Emerson, the Brownings, Hardy, Housman, Kipling, Pound, and Auden among them -- are included in this treasury, a perfect companion for quiet moments of reflection..
Among them are Marlowe: The Passionate Shepherd to His Love
Shakespeare: Sonnet XVIII (Shall I compare thee to a summer\'s day?)
Donne: Holy Sonnet X (Death, be not proud)
Marvell: To His Coy Mistress
Wordsworth: I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
Shelley: Ode to the West Wind
Longfellow: The Children\'s Hour
Poe: The Raven
Tennyson: The Charge of the Light Brigade
Whitman: O Captain My Captain
Dickinson: This Is My Letter to the World
Yeats: When You Are Old
Frost: The Road Not Taken
Millay: First Fig.
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.
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
