Favorite Poems


ODE ON THE DEATH OF RICHARD WEST
Thomas Gray

(1716-1771)

ODE, WRITTEN IN THE BEGINNING OF THE YEAR 1746
William Collins

(1721-1759)

SURPRISED BY JOY
William Wordsworth

(1770-1850)

MUTABILITY
William Wordsworth

(1770-1850)

ROSE AYLMER
Walter Savage Landor

(1775-1864)

THE PRISONER OF CHILLON
George Gordon, Lord Byron

(1788-1824)

OZYMANDIAS
Percy Bysshe Shelley

(1792-1822)

ON FIRST LOOKING INTO CHAPMAN'S HOMER
John Keats

(1795-1821)

MEMORABILIA
Robert Browning

(1812-1889)

from "MODERN LOVE"
George Meredith

(1828-1909)

THE DARKLING THRUSH
Thomas Hardy

(1840-1928)

ADAM'S CURSE
William Butler Yeats

(1865-1939)

PUTTING IN THE SEED
Robert Frost

(1874-1963)

TWO TRAMPS IN MUD TIME
Robert Frost

(1874-1963)

CANTO I.
Ezra Pound

(1885-1972)

"God was a hawk in the glow of the morning ..."
Robinson Jeffers

(1887-1962)

"I think I should have loved you presently ..."
Edna St. Vincent Millay

(1892-1950)

ANTICIPATION of LOVE
Jorge Luis Borges

(1899-1986)

MANHOLE COVERS
Karl Shapiro

(1913-2000)

The PARDON
Richard Wilbur

(1921-)

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