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The Famous Poetry Online web site contains a huge selection of famous online poetry from the greatest and most celebrated poets and authors. There are examples of each of the different famous poetry verse forms including verses, poems, limericks, rhymes, ballades, blank verses, elegy, idylls, lays, lyrics, odes and sonnets! A fully comprehensive site for famous online poetry. Many different famous and popular poem categories have been included to suit a variety of needs including love poems, teen poems, children's poems, dark poems, romantic poems, love poetry, funny poems, sad poems, friendship poems and limericks! All the different types of famous poems can be found on Poetry Online! All of the most famous and great poets and love poems have been featured including Shakespeare, Browning, Eliot, Joyce, Tennyson and Butler. Information has been provided covering famous poetry terms - info at your fingertips with Famous Poetry online. Check out the definitions of a Cinquain, Couplet, Epigram and Quatrain - great for students of literature! There are even explanations of the famous Japanese poem formats such as Tanka, Terza rima, Senryu and Haiku! A fully comprehensive educational online resource for students of famous literature. Common mis-spellings are peotry - poetrey - poety - poettry - fameous potry and peotry.

 The following famous poems by our favourite poets and authors are highly recommended and make fascinating reading and are listed in no particular order:

• Sonnets from the Portuguese - 14 by the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning

• The Tiger poem by William Blake ( Tiger Tiger burning bright in the forests of the night )

• Nightingales a famous poem by Robert Bridges ( Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come )

• A Red Red Rose a famous poem by Robert Burns ( O my Luve's like a red, red rose )

• She Walks In Beauty a famous poem by Lord Byron ( She walks in beauty, like the night )

• Rime of the Ancient Mariner a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( It is an ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three )

• Heart, we will forget him a famous love poem by Emily Dickinson (Heart, we will forget him, You and I, tonight! )

• Macavity - The Mystery Cat a famous, funny poem by T S Eliot ( Macavity's a Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw )

• Mending Wall a famous poem by Robert Frost ( Something there is that doesn't love a wall )

• Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray ( The Curfew tolls the knell of parting day )

• Simples a famous poem by James Joyce ( Of cool sweet dew and radiance mild )

• The Song of Hiawatha a great famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( By the shore of Gitchie Gumee, By the shining Big-Sea-Water, )

• Madonna of the Evening Flowers a lovely poem by Amy Lowell ( All day long I have been working, Now I am tired. )

• When I consider how my light is spent  - a famous poem by John Milton ( When I consider how my light is spent )

• The Raven a famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe ( Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary )

• Goblin Market a famous poem by Christina Rossetti ( Morning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry )

• Sonnet 18 by the Great, celebrated Bard, William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
  ( Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate )

• Ode To The West Wind a famous poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley ( O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being )

• The Lady of Shallot a famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson ( On either side the river lie long fields of barley and of rye )

• Daffodils - I wandered lonely as a cloud a famous poem by William Wordsworth ( I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high o'er vales and hills )

The Famous Poetry Online web site contains a huge selection of famous online poems from the most celebrated authors. The vast range of different literary styles and techniques used by the individual poets are fascinating and many of these famous classic and modern poetic forms are explained in our section about writing poems. We believe that poetry is above all for pleasure but appreciate that for those studying the subject of poems and literature that the poetry terms and definitions used are vital for a greater understanding. This famous online poetry web site endeavours to provide as much information as possible for all students of Famous Poetry. The Online Forum has been developed to provide a literary discussion forum which can be used as a 'Chat zone' specifically for famous poem lovers from all corners of the world. We wanted to provide an exclusive Poems chat zone, or forum, where perhaps questions about Famous Poems can be discussed and addressed to the benefit of our visitors.' Famous Poetry Online ' is solely for educational purposes and any reproduction of the famous poems contained on this web site is not to be "used for any purpose other than private study, scholarship, or research." Common mis-spellings are peotry - poetrey - poety - poettry - fameous potry and peotry. Please refer to our Famous Online Poetry Copyright page and Privacy Statement regarding Terms of Use.

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