Favorite Poem Project

Poet	Poem
Akhmatova, Anna	The Sentence
Ashbery, John	The Improvement
Auden, W.H.	Musée des Beaux Arts
Bishop, Elizabeth	At the Fishhouses
Bishop, Elizabeth	One Art
Blok, Aleksandr	The Night, the Street, the Streetlamp…
Boland, Eavan	The Emigrant Irish
Bolina, Jaswinder	Make Believe
Brooks, Gwendolyn	We Real Cool
Burgos, Julia de	Ay, Ay, Ay, de la Grifa Negra
Crane, Hart	At Melville’s Tomb
Cullen, Countee	Yet Do I Marvel
Dickinson, Emily	I’m Nobody! Who Are You? (288)
Drayton, Michael	Since There’s No Help
Dunbar, Paul Laurence	The Party
Emerson, Ralph Waldo	Concord Hymn
Frost, Robert	For Once, Then, Something
Frost, Robert	OUT, OUT—
Frost, Robert	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Glück, Louise	Lamentations
Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von	The Holy Longing
Harjo, Joy	Fishing
Heaney, Seamus	Death of a Naturalist
Hopkins, Gerard Manley	God’s Grandeur
Housman, A. E.	Diffugere Nives
Hughes, Langston	Merry-Go-Round
Hughes, Langston	Minstrel Man
Jones, Evan	The Song of the Banana Man
Khayyam, Omar	From: The Rubaiyyat of Omar Khayyam
Komunyakaa, Yusef	Facing It
Kunitz, Stanley	Hornworm: Autumn Lamentation
Levertov, Denise	Settling
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth	A Psalm of Life
Machado, Antonio	Caminante, no hay camino/ Traveler, There Is No Road
Marvell, Andrew	To His Coy Mistress
Milton, John	From: Lycidas
Mistral, Gabriela	Piececitos/Little Feet
Nemerov, Howard	The Makers
Neruda, Pablo	Soneto XVII/Sonnet XVII
O'Hara, Frank	POEM
Owen, Wilfred	Dulce et Decorum Est
Parker, Pat	Let Me Come to You Naked
Plath, Sylvia	Nick and the Candlestick
Plath, Sylvia	Polly’s Tree
Po, Li	靜夜思 (On a Quiet Night)
Rimbaud, Arthur	Le Dormeur du Val/The Sleeper in the Valley
Ritsos, Yannis	Our Land
Roethke, Theodore	My Papa’s Waltz
Roethke, Theodore	The Sloth
Roethke, Theodore	The Waking
Sassoon, Siegfried	Absolution
Sexton, Anne	Said the Poet to the Analyst
Shakespeare, William	Sonnet 29
Stevens, Wallace	The Idea of Order at Key West
Stevens, Wallace	The Snow Man
Stevenson, Robert Louis	Block City
Szymborska, Wisława	Notes from a Nonexistent Himalayan Expedition
Tagore, Rabindranath	From: Gitanjali
Tate, James	The Lost Pilot
Thayer, Ernest Lawrence	Casey at the Bat
Walker, Margaret	For My People
Whitman, Walt	From: Song of Myself (50 & 52)
Whitman, Walt	From: Song of the Open Road
Whitman, Walt	O Captain! My Captain!
Yeats, William Butler	Politics
Yeats, William Butler	When You Are Old
Yoshitada, Sone No	Untitled Tanka
Zawgee	The Way of the Water-Hyacinth

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