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The 36 Most Famous Poems Ever Written in The Engli
The 36 Most Famous Poems Ever Written in The Engli
The 36 Most Famous Poems Ever Written in The Engli
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Only four presidents have chosen to include poets in their inaugural ceremonies, making
22-year-old Gorman the sixth poet to perform at one. Her performance stole the show—
and got us thinking about all the poetry that has defined our lives. Below, we’ve compiled a
list of 38 famous poems in the English language. Read on and relive the words that moved
us the most.
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1. The Raven
by Emma Lazarus
Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
by Emily Dickinson
And Immortality.
4. Sonnet 18
by William Shakespeare
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5. Kubla Khan
by Lord Byron
9. O Captain! My Captain!
by Walt Whitman
Rise up—for you the flag is flung—for you the bugle trills;
For you bouquets and ribbon'd wreaths—for you the shores a-crowding;
For you they call, the swaying mass, their eager faces turning
by Alan Seeger
by Emily Dickinson
To an admiring bog!
by John Keats
by T.S. Eliot
so much depends
upon
a red wheel
barrow
glazed with rain
water
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chickens
by Robert Frost
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17. Ozymandias
18. If—
by Rudyard Kipling
And yet don’t look too good, nor talk too wise:
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21. Jabberwocky
by Lewis Carroll
22. Unnamed
by Rupi Kaur
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on the sacrifices
thinking
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by Derek Walcott
by Gabriel Okara
by Audre Lord
Sitting in Nedicks
as well as my bed
as well as sex
by Shel Silverstein
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by Wallace Stevens
by Ezra Pound
Wavering!
See, they return, one, and by one,
inviolable.
Haie! Haie!
31. My Shadow
And what can be the use of him is more than I can see.
And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed.
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by John Donne
No man is an island,
Entire of itself,
by Langston Hughes
by William Wordsworth
by Ogden Nash
The people upstairs all practise ballet
by Marianne Moore
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