FAMOUS POETRY

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A Birthday - Famous poetry by Christina Rossetti
A Blue Valentine - Celebrated Verse by Joyce Kilmer
A Charge - Famous poetry by Herbert Trench
A Childs Hymn - A Christian poem by Charles Dickens
A Farewell to False Famous poem by Sir Walter Raleigh
A Forest Hymn - A Christian poem by William Cullen Bryant
A Hunting Morning - Famous poetry by Arthur Conan Doyle
A Nocturnal Reverie - Famed Poem by Anne Finch
A Noiseless Patient Spider - Famous poetry by Walt Whitman
A Poison Tree - Famous poetry by William Blake
A Question - Well-known Poem by Robert Frost
A Red Red Rose - A Love Verse and poetry by Robert Burns
A Sunset - Famous poetry by Victor Hugo
A Vision upon the Fairy Queen - A Love Verse by Sir Walter Raleigh
Adam Posed - Famous poetry by Anne Finch
Aftermath - Famous poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Amor Intellectualis - Famed Poem by Oscar Wilde
Annabel Lee a poem by Edgar Allan Poe
Apples of Hesperides - Famous poetry by Amy Lowell
Ash Wednesday - Celebrated Verse by T S Eliot
Auld lang syne - Famous poetry by Robert Burns
Autumn - Famed Poem by Christopher Brennan
Azure and gold - Celebrated Verse by Amy Lowell

Beautiful Dreamer - Song and lyrics by Stephen Foster
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms - Famous poetry by Thomas Moore
Birches - Famous poetry by Robert Frost
Birds of Passage - Celebrated Verse by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Bredon Hill - Famed Poem by A. E. Housman
Byzantium - Famous poetry by William Butler Yeats

Celestial Love - A Love Verse by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Channel Firing - Famed Poem by Thomas Hardy
Chicago - Famous poetry by Carl Sandburg

Come live with me and be my love - A Love Verse by Christopher Marlowe

Daffodils - Famous poetry by William Wordsworth
Darkness - Well-known Poem by Lord Byron
Death Be Not Proud - Famed Poem by John Donne
Dover Beach - Celebrated Verse by Matthew Arnold
Dreamland - Famous poetry by Christina Rossetti
Dust of Snow - Celebrated Verse by Robert Frost

Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard - Famous poetry by Thomas Gray
Eliza Crossing the River - Famous poetry by Harriet Beecher Stowe

Fifteen men on the Dead Man's Chest - Children's favourite poem by Robert Louis Stevenson
Fire and Ice - Famous poetry by Robert Frost
Flush My Dog - Famed Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Fog - Celebrated Verse by Carl Sandburg
Forest Hymn - A Christian poem by William Cullen Bryant
For Johnny (Do not despair) - Famous poetry by John Pudney
For whom the bell tolls a poem (No man is an island) - Famous poetry by John Donne
Forget Not Yet - A Love Verse by Thomas Wyatt
Frost at Midnight - Famous poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Full Fathom Five Thy Father Lies William Shakespeare

Goblin Market - Famous poetry by Christina Rossetti
Growing Old - Celebrated Verse by Matthew Arnold
Gunga Din - Children's favourite poem by Rudyard Kipling
Gus - The Theatre Cat - Children's favourite poem by T S Eliot
Gypsy - Famous poetry by Carl Sandburg

Hap - Famous poetry by Thomas Hardy
Helas - Well-known Poem by Oscar Wilde
Her Voice - A Love Verse by Oscar Wilde
How Do I Love Thee? - A Love Verse by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hudibras excerpt from the poem by Samuel Butler

I have loved flowers that fade - Famous poetry by Robert Bridges
I Hear an Army - Famed Poem by James Joyce
I wandered lonely as a cloud - Celebrated Verse by William Wordsworth
If - Famous poetry by Rudyard Kipling
If thou must love me, let it be for nought - A Love Verse by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
In Flanders Fields - Famous poetry by Dr. John McCrae

Jabberwocky - Children's favourite poem by Lewis Carroll
Jerusalem - A Christian poem by William Blake
The Jumblies - Children's favourite poem by Edward Lear

Kubla Khan - Famous poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Killers - Famed Poem by Carl Sandburg

La Belle Dame Sans Merci - A Love Verse by John Keats
Lepanto - Famous poetry by G.K.Chesterton
Life in a Love - Well-known Poem by Robert Browning
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey - Famous poetry by William Wordsworth
The Listeners - Famous poetry by Walter de la Mare
Lochinvar - Famed Poem by Sir Walter Scott
London 1802 - Celebrated Verse by William Wordsworth
London - Famous poetry by William Blake
Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Famous poetry by T S Eliot

Madonna of the Evening Flowers - Famous poetry by Amy Lowell
Main Street - Famous poetry by Joyce Kilmer
Marmion - Famed Poem by Sir Walter Scott

Marriage Morning - Famous poetry by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Meeting at Night - Celebrated Verse by Robert Browning
Mending Wall - Famous poetry by Robert Frost
Music, when soft voices die - Famed Poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley
My Last Duchess - Celebrated Verse by Robert Browning
My River - Famous poetry by Emily Dickinson

Nightingales - Famous poetry by Robert Bridges
No Coward Soul Is Mine - Famed Poem by Emily Bronte
Nocturne - Celebrated Verse by Eugene O Neill
Nothing Gold can Stay - Famous poetry by Robert Frost

O Captain My Captain - Famous poetry by Walt Whitman
Ode On A Grecian Urn - Celebrated Ode by John Keats
Ode on Solitude - Celebrated Ode by Alexander Pope
Ode To A Nightingale - Celebrated Ode by John Keats
Ode to Stephen Dowling Bots - Celebrated Ode by Mark Twain
Ode To The West Wind - Celebrated Ode by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Old Lang Syne - Famous poetry by Robert Burns
Once by the Ocean - Famous poetry by Robert Frost
On the Idle Hill of Summer - Celebrated Verse by A. E. Housman
Opal - Well-known Poem by Amy Lowell
Owl and the Pussy Cat - Children's favourite poem by Edward Lear
Ozymandias - Famous poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Paradise Lost - Famous poetry by John Milton
Passage to India - Famed Poem by Walt Whitman
Patterns - Famous poetry by Amy Lowell
Pindaric Ode - Celebrated Verse by Thomas Gray
Pobble Who Has No Toes - Children's favourite poem by Edward Lear

Poem 22 (I gave myself to him) - A Love Verse by Emily Dickinson
Poem 348 (Robin) - Well-known Poem by Emily Dickinson
Poppies - Famous poetry by Carl Sandburg

Question - Famous poetry by Percy Bysshe Shelley
Quangle Wangles Hat - Children's favourite poem by Edward Lear

Recessional - Famed Poem by Rudyard Kipling
Remember - Famous poem by Christina Rossetti

Remembrance - Celebrated Verse by Emily Bronte
Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Children's favourite poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Sestina Of The Tramp a Royal - Famous poem by Rudyard Kipling
She Walks In Beauty like the Night - A Love Verse by Lord Byron
Simples - Well-known Poem by James Joyce
So, we'll go no more a roving - Famed Poem by Lord Byron
Something Left Undone - Famous poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Song of Myself - Famous poem by Walt Whitman
Sonnet To Chillon - Famous poetry by Lord Byron
Sonnets from the Portuguese - 14 - Celebrated Verse by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Sonnets from the Portuguese - 43 - Famous poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Star Spangled Banner - Celebrated Verse by Francis Scott Key
Stars poem - Famous poetry by Emily Bronte

Sonnets by William Shakespeare

Sonnet 002 - When forty winters shall besiege thy brow - Well-known Sonnet by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 018 - Shall I compare thee to a summer's day - Well-known Sonnet by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 029 - When in disgrace - Well-known Sonnet by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 055 - Not marble nor the gilded monuments - Well-known Sonnet by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 109 - O never say that I was false of heart - Well-known Sonnet by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 116 - Let me not to the marriage of true minds - Well-known Sonnet by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 126 - O thou, my lovely boy - Well-known Sonnet by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 130 - My Mistress eyes - Well-known Sonnet by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 133 - Beshrew that heart - Well-known Sonnet by William Shakespeare
Sonnet 147 - My love is as a fever - Well-known Sonnet by William Shakespeare

Tears, Idle Tears - Famous poetry by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Ballad Of Reading Gaol - Famous poetry by Oscar Wilde
The Barrel Organ - Well-known Poem by Alfred Noyes
The Canterbury Tales poem by Geoffrey Chaucer
The Cask of Amontillado - Famous poetry by Edgar Allan Poe
The Chambered Nautilus - Celebrated Verse by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Famous poetry by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Chilterns - Famous poetry by Rupert Brooke
The Chimney Sweeper - Celebrated Verse by William Blake
The City in the Sea - Well-known Poem by Edgar Allan Poe
The Cow in Apple Time - Famous poetry by Robert Frost
The Darkling Thrush - Famous poetry by Thomas Hardy
The Dream Town Show - Celebrated Verse by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Eve of St. Agnes - Famous poetry by John Keats
The Fire of Drift-Wood - Famous poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Flatting-Mill - Celebrated Verse by William Cowper
The Flea - Famous poetry by John Donne
The Great Lover - Celebrated Verse by Rupert Brooke
The Highwayman - Famous poetry by Alfred Noyes
The House with Nobody in it - Famous poetry by Joyce Kilmer
The Jumblies - Children's favourite poem by Edward Lear
The Lady of Shallot - Celebrated Verse by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Lady of Shalott - Famous poetry by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The Lake of the Dismal Swamp - Famous poetry by Thomas Moore
The Last Leaf - Well-known Poem by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Listeners - Celebrated Verse by Walter de la Mare
The Lotos-Eaters - Famous poetry by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock - Famous poetry by T S Eliot
The Owl and the Pussy Cat - Children's favourite poem by Edward Lear
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love - Classic by Christopher Marlowe
The Pied Piper Of Hamelin - Childrens favourite poem by Robert Browning
The Pobble Who Has No Toes - Funny poem by Edward Lear
The Rape of the Lock Canto 1 - Famous poetry by Alexander Pope
The Raven - Famous poetry by Edgar Allan Poe
The Road not Taken - Famous poetry by Robert Frost
The Seekers -  Poem by John Masefield
The Sick Rose - Famous poetry by William Blake
The Soldier - Well-known Poem by Rupert Brooke
The Song of Hiawatha - Famous poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Spider and the Fly - Childrens verse by Mary Howitt
The Star Spangled Banner - Inspirational lyrics by Francis Scott Key

The Sun Rising -  Classic Poem by John Donne
The Tables Turned - Celebrated Verse by William Wordsworth
The Tell Tale Heart - Famous poetry by Edgar Allan Poe
The Tiger - Famous poetry by William Blake
The Walrus and the Carpenter - Great Rhyme by Lewis Carroll
The Worlds Need - Well-known Poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The Wreck of the Hesperus Famous poetry by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
To a Louse -  Scottish Poem by Robert Burns
To a Mouse - Well-known Poem by Robert Burns
To a Waterfowl - Famous poetry by William Cullen Bryant
To a Young Lady - Celebrated Verse by William Cowper
To Autumn - Famous poetry by John Keats
To the Memory of Mr. Oldham -  Poem by John Dryden
Twas the Night before Christmas - Famous poetry by Clement Moore
Ulysses - Well-known Poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson
Unlike We Are, Unlike, Oh Princely Heart - Famous  Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Uphill - Famous poetry by Christina Rossetti
Venetian Glass -  Poem by Amy Lowell
Venus and Adonis - Famous poetry by William Shakespeare
Vision upon the Fairy Queen -  Classic Poem by Sir Walter Raleigh
Voices at the Window -  Classic Poem by Sir Philip Sydney
When I consider how my light is spent - Famous inspirational poetry by John Milton
When We Two Parted -  A Love Verse by Lord Byron
When You Are Old - Famous poetry by William Butler Yeats
Who Ever Loved, That Loved Not at First Sight? -  Love Poem by Christopher Marlowe
XIV Sonnet from the Portuguese - Well-known Poem by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Xanado - Kubla Khan - Famous poetry by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Yellow Gas -  Poem by Christopher Brennan
Yesterday is History - Well-known Poem by Emily Dickinson

You'll love me yet and I can tarry - A Love Verse by Robert Browning
Zeroes taught us Phosphorous -  Poem by Emily Dickinson

There are so many wonderful poems to choose from it is difficult to know where to make a start! We have therefore devised a Top 20 List of our favourite poems. It was an extremely difficult task and obviously our choice, in the end, was based on personal preferences! We hope that the list will provide our readers with as much pleasure that these famous verses have given to us. A good knowledge of these famous verses will provide all students and children with a good grounding of the subject. Each poet has a different style of writing making expert use of the English language. We have been asked on many occasions which is our favourite poem. Impossible! Writing styles, subject matter and even childhood memories influence choices, so we gave up and endeavoured to, at least, compile a list of our top twenty famous and favourite poems! The first line of the famous verse has been included to jog the memory! Please refer to the Index for the Top 20 list! We can, however give examples of some lovely verses from a selection of the most popular poems:

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course untrimmed.
But thy eternal summer shall not fade
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st;
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st,
So long as men can breathe or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

William Shakespeare Sonnet 18

On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And thro' the field the road runs by
To many-tower'd Camelot;
And up and down the people go,
Gazing where the lilies blow
Round an island there below,
The island of Shallot.

The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson

Morning and evening
Maids heard the goblins cry: 
"Come buy our orchard fruits, 
Come buy, come buy: 
Apples and quinces, 
Lemons and oranges, 
Plump unpeck'd cherries, 
Melons and raspberries, 
Bloom-down-cheek'd peaches, 
Swart-headed mulberries, 
Wild free-born cranberries, 
Crab-apples, dewberries, 
Pine-apples, blackberries, 
Apricots, strawberries; - 
All ripe together 
In summer weather...

Goblin Market by Christina Rosetti

 

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