Famous Poetry

These are some of my favourite poems, some are by less well-known poets but I think you might like them.

A Daughter Of Eve by Christina Rossetti

A Dream Within A Dream by Edgar Allen Poe

A Puppy Called Puberty by Adrian Mitchell

And My Heart Soars by Chief Dan George

April Rise by Laurie Lee

 The Bargain by Sir Philip Sydney

The Boy by W. H. Davies

But A Short Time by Leslie Coulson

Caged Bird by Maya Angelou

Clouds by Elizabeth Jennings

Cold In The Earth by Emily Bronte

Coming To This by Mark Strand

Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Confirmation by Edwin Muir

Constancy by John Wilmot

Daffodils by William Wordsworth

Daisy by Francis Thompson

Daisy Time by Marjorie Pickthall

Destiny by Ralph Waldo Emerson

The Diet by Shel Silverstein

Donkey by Gertrude Hind

The Donkey by G. K. Chesterton

Do Not Go Gentle Into The Night by Dylan Thomas

The Dying Child by John Clare

Ecstasy by W. J. Turner

Elephant Eternity by Adrian Mitchell

The Elf And The Dormouse by Oliver Herford

The Enemy Of Life by Sir Thomas Wyatt

Epitaph For A Gifted Man by Vernon Scannell

Family Tree by Judith Nicholls

Fetish by Christopher Reid

Fire And Ice by Robert Frost

The First Day by Christina Georgina Rossetti

For A Dead Lady by Edward Arlington Robinson

For Lies Spoken Out Of Kindness by Desanka Maksimovic

From a Railway Carriage by Robert Louis Stevenson

Give Me Your Name by Judith Nicholls

The Hand That Rocks The Cradle by William Ross Wallace

The Happy Child by W. H. Davies

Holy Thursday by William Blake

Home Sweet Home by John Howard Payne

I Am by John Clare

I Carry Your Heart by e. e. cummings

I Love You by Paul Eluard

I Remember, I Remember by Thomas Hood

If by e. e. cummings

If I Believe by e. e. cummings

If I Should Die Tonight by Arabella Eugenia Smith

If I Were Rich by Christopher Matthew

In A Disused Graveyard by Robert Frost

The Infinite Debt by Rachel Bates

Jolly Hunter by Charles Causley

Kubla Khan by Samuel Coleridge Taylor

Leisure by William Henry Davies

Let Me Not See Old Age by D. R. Geraint Jones

Little Boy Blue by Eugene Field

London Streets by Christopher Matthew

Longing by Matthew Arnold

Love Is by Adrian Henri

The Maid's Lament by Walter Savage Landor

The Matrimonial Bed by Marge Piercy

Montana Born by Leonard Clark

Morning by Dionne Brand

Music, When Soft Voices Die by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Names by Wendy Cope

The Night Has A Thousand Eyes by Frances William Bourdillon

Night Mail by W. H. Auden

Now Winter Nights Enlarge by Thomas Campion

The Old Year by John Clare

One Flesh by Elizabeth Jennings

Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

Piano by D. H. Lawrence

Preludes by T. S. Elliot

The Relic by John Donne

Remember Me by Christina Georgina Rossetti

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Robin Redbreast by William Allingham

Rose-Cheeked Laura by Thomas Campion

Saddest Poem by Pablo Neruda

Sea Fever by John Masefield

She Walks In Beauty by Lord Byron

Since There's No Help by Michael Drayton

Slough by Sir John Betjamin

The Snowstorm by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Solitude by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Somebody's Mother by Mabel Down (Northam) Brine

Something Told The Wild Geese by Rachel Field

Spellbound by Emily Bronte

Stop All The Clocks by W. H. Auden

Stopping Places by Molly Holden

Summer Dawn by William Morris

Three Or So by Berlie Doherty

Thrice Toss Those Oaken Ashes by Thomas Campion

To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence by James Elroy Flecker

To My Dear And Loving Husband by Anne Bradstreet

To The Virgins, Make Much Of Time by Robert Herrick

The Tyger by William Blake

The Village Blacksmith by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Two Rivers by Ralph Waldo Emerson

Warning by Jenny Joseph

What My Lips Have Kissed by Edna St. Vincent Millay

when god lets my body be by e. e. cummings

When I Am Dead by Christina Georgina Rossetti

When We Two Parted by Lord Byron

When you Are Old by W. B. Yeats

The Winter Palace by Philip Larkin

With How Sad Steps, O Moon by Sir Philip Sydney

The World by William Wordsworth

Wrinklies by Christopher Matthew

You Are Old, Father William by Lewis Carroll

You Would Have Understood by Ernest Dowson

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