100 Best-Loved Poems

BALLADS Lord Randal Sir Patrick Spens SIR THOMAS WYATT The Lover Showeth How He Is Forsaken of Such as He Sometime Enjoyed CHRISTOPHER MARLOWE The Passionate Shepherd to His Love WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE "Sonnet XVIII ("Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?")" "Sonnet LXXIII ("That time of year thou mayst in me behold")" "Sonnet XCIV ("They that have power to hurt and will do none")" "Sonnet CXVI ("Let me not to the marriage of true minds")" THOMAS NASHE "Adieu, Farewell Earth's Bliss" JOHN DONNE The Good Morrow "Holy Sonnet X ("Death be not proud, though some have called thee")" "Holy Sonnet XIV ("Batter my heart, three-person'd God; for, you")" BEN JONSON To Celia On My First Son ROBERT HERRICK "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" Upon Julia's Clothes GEORGE HERBERT Love Bade Me Welcome EDMUND WALLER "Song ("Go, lovely Rose -")" JOHN MILTON On His Blindness On His Deceased Wife SIR JOHN SUCKLING "Why So Pale and Wan, Fond Lover?" RICHARD LOVELACE "To Lucasta, Going to the Wars" ANDREW MARVELL To His Coy Mistress HANRY VAUGHAN The Retreat THOMAS GRAY Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard "Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes" WILLIAM BLAKE The Lamb The Sick Rose The Tyger London ROBERT BURNS To a Mouse "A Red, Red Rose" WILLIAM WORDSWORTH "Composed upon Westminster Bridge, Sep. 3, 1802" "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" "The World Is Too Much with Us; Late and Soon" SAMUEL TAYLOR COLERIDGE Kubla Khan LEIGH HUNT Abou Ben Adhem Jenny Kiss'd Me "GEORGE GORDON, LORD BYRON" "She Walks in Beauty" The Destruction of Sennacherib "So We'll Go No More a Roving" PERCY BYSSHE SHELLEY Ozymandias Ode to the West Wind To a Skylark WILLIAM CULLEN BRYANT Thanatopsis JOHN KEATS On First Looking into Chapman's Homer Ode to a Nightingale Ode on a Grecian Urn La Belle Dame sans Merci "When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be" RALPH WALDO EMERSON Hymn: sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument ELIZABETH BARRETT BROWNING "Sonnet XLIII ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways")" HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW The Village Blacksmith The Children's Hour JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER Barbara Frietchie EDGAR ALLAN POE To Helen The Raven Annabel Lee "OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES, SR." Old Ironsides The Chambered Nautilus "ALFRED, LORD TENNYSON" The Charge of the Light Brigade Crossing the Bar ROBERT BROWNING My Last Duchess WALT WHITMAN I Hear America Singing O Captain! My Captain! A Noiseless Patient Spider MATTHEW ARNOLD Dover Beach GEORGE MEREDITH Lucifer in Starlight EMILY DICKINSON "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?" "This Is My Letter to the World" "I Heard a Fly Buzz When I Died" "Because I Could No Stop for Death" CHRISTINA ROSSETTI A Birthday LEWIS CARROLL Jabberwocky THOMAS HARDY The Darkling Thrush GERARD MANLEY HOPKINS The Windhover Pied Beauty ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON Requiem A. E. HOUSMAN To an Athlete Dying Young RUDYARD KIPLING Gunga Din Recessional If - WILLIAM BUTLER YEARTS The Lake Isle of Innisfree When You Are Old The Second Coming EDWIN ARLINGTON ROBINSON Richard Cory Miniver Cheevy ROBERT FROST The Road Not Taken Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening CARL SANDBURG Chicago Fog WALLACE STEVENS The Emperor of Ice-Cream WILLIAM CARLOS WILLIAMS The Red Wheelbarrow EZRA POUND The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter MARIANNE MOORE Poetry EDNA ST. VINCENT MILLAY First Fig WILFRED OWEN Anthem for Doomed youth E. E. CUMMINGS "anyone lived in a pretty how town" W. H. AUDEN Musee des Beaux Arts DYLAN THOMAS Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night Alphabetical List of Titles Alphabetical List of First Lines