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The 1187 poems that drew reader comments, most discussed first.

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100+ comments (4)

179 The Highwayman — Alfred Noyes #13
171 Abdul Abulbul Amir — Percy French #358
122 Abou Ben Adhem — James Leigh Hunt #153
106 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening — Robert Frost #155

50–99 comments (9)

82 Cargoes — John Masefield #74
70 Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? (Sonnets XVIII) — William Shakespeare #71
68 The Listeners — Walter de la Mare #2
63 Trees — Joyce Kilmer #146
61 Nothing Gold Can Stay — Robert Frost #1012
56 Funeral Blues — W H Auden #256
56 High Flight — Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee #276
54 The Red Wheelbarrow — William Carlos Williams #83
51 Evolution — Langdon Smith #550

20–49 comments (39)

47 One Art — Elizabeth Bishop #639
45 Five Ways to Kill a Man — Edwin Brock #105
43 The Song of Wandering Aengus — William Butler Yeats #1
43 The Second Coming — William Butler Yeats #289
42 My Last Duchess — Robert Browning #104
42 Fire and Ice — Robert Frost #779
41 Jerusalem — William Blake #26
37 He wishes for the cloths of heaven — William Butler Yeats #597
34 Invictus — William Ernest Henley #221
34 The Ice-Cart — Wilfred Gibson #622
32 A Martian Sends A Postcard Home — Craig Raine #131
32 A Poison Tree — William Blake #1087
32 The Touch Of The Master's Hand — Myra Brooks Welch #1199
31 The Burial of Sir John Moore at Corunna — Charles Wolfe #115
31 Dulce Et Decorum Est — Wilfred Owen #132
31 A Code Poem For The French Resistance — Leo Marks #197
28 To Whom It May Concern — Adrian Mitchell #28
28 Daffodils — William Wordsworth #63
28 The Yarn of the "Nancy Bell" — W S Gilbert #161
27 Overheard on a Salmarsh — Harold Monro #594
26 The Tyger — William Blake #66
26 Tarantella — Hilaire Belloc #294
26 Thanatopsis — William Cullen Bryant #302
26 The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner — Randall Jarrell #707
26 Vitaï Lampada — Sir Henry Newbolt #946
26 The Green Eye of the Yellow God — J Milton Hayes #1124
24 Dover Beach — Matthew Arnold #89
24 This Is Just To Say — William Carlos Williams #274
24 Silver — Walter de la Mare #725
23 Sea Fever — John Masefield #27
23 Lord Ullin's Daughter — Thomas Campbell #199
23 To Thine Own Self Be True — William Shakespeare #1204
22 Ozymandias — Percy Bysshe Shelley #22
22 The Windhover — Gerard Manley Hopkins #35
22 Jenny Kissed Me — James Leigh Hunt #103
22 Warning — Jenny Joseph #716
22 The Vagabond — Robert Louis Stevenson #780
20 Break, break, break — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #31
20 Death be not Proud (Holy Sonnets: X) — John Donne #796

10–19 comments (91)

19 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night — Dylan Thomas #38
19 Ulysses — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #121
19 Romance — W J Turner #238
19 If — Rudyard Kipling #271
19 An Elegy on the Death of a Mad Dog — Oliver Goldsmith #286
19 Clancy of the Overflow — A B "Banjo" Paterson #566
19 The Grey Squirrel — Humbert Wolfe #766
18 Mr.Tambourine Man — Bob Dylan #112
18 Let me not to the marriage of true minds (Sonnet CXVI) — William Shakespeare #363
17 The Road Not Taken — Robert Frost #51
17 The Brook (excerpt) — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #80
17 The Emperor of Ice-Cream — Wallace Stevens #180
17 The Lake Isle of Innisfree — William Butler Yeats #309
17 The Walrus and the Carpenter — Lewis Carroll #347
17 Raglan Road — Patrick Kavanagh #971
17 The Weight — Jaime 'Robbie' Robertson #1374
16 Casey At The Bat — Ernest Lawrence Thayer #90
16 Romance Sonambulo — Federico García Lorca #210
16 O What Is That Sound — W H Auden #371
16 Disobedience — A A Milne #463
16 Night of the Scorpion — Nissim Ezekiel #714
16 A Psalm of Life — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #888
15 Ode — Arthur O'Shaughnessy #6
15 Bagpipe Music — Louis MacNeice #18
15 Requiem — Robert Louis Stevenson #20
15 The Moving Finger Writes; and, Having Writ — Omar Khayyam #545
15 The King's Breakfast — A A Milne #562
15 I Come and Stand at Every Door — Nazim Hikmet #742
15 My Rifle (The Creed of a United States Marine) — Maj Gen WH Rupertus #1110
15 The Shooting of Dan McGrew — Robert Service #1126
14 Song, from Pippa Passes — Robert Browning #133
14 To His Coy Mistress — Andrew Marvell #158
14 Where The Mind is Without Fear — Rabindranath Tagore #177
14 Naming of Parts — Henry Reed #395
14 Horatius — Thomas Babbington Macaulay #489
14 For The Fallen — Laurence Binyon #765
14 Night Mail — W H Auden #1281
13 In Flanders Fields — John McCrae #11
13 Sailing to Byzantium — William Butler Yeats #21
13 Hawk Roosting — Ted Hughes #42
13 Lochinvar — Sir Walter Scott #125
13 The Modern Hiawatha — George A Strong #559
13 There Was a Little Girl — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #835
13 The Ballad Of William Bloat — Raymond Calvert #1165
12 The Eagle (a fragment) — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #15
12 On the Vanity of Earthly Greatness — Arthur Guiterman #24
12 When I heard the Learn'd Astronomer — Walt Whitman #54
12 On the Eve of His Execution — Chidiock Tichborne #144
12 Auguries of Innocence — William Blake #368
12 The Unknown Citizen — W H Auden #386
12 The Destruction of Sennacherib — George Gordon, Lord Byron #718
12 A Subaltern's Love Song — John Betjeman #764
12 An Unusual Cat-Poem — Wendy Cope #1059
12 The Way I Am — Eminem #1177
11 First Fig — Edna St Vincent Millay #34
11 Tommy — Rudyard Kipling #43
11 pity this busy monster, manunkind — e e cummings #57
11 How do I love thee? — Elizabeth Barrett Browning #269
11 The Glove and the Lions — James Leigh Hunt #275
11 Futility — Wilfred Owen #288
11 Bed in Summer — Robert Louis Stevenson #290
11 Charge of the Light Brigade — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #355
11 The Last of the Light Brigade — Rudyard Kipling #357
11 The Elements — Tom Lehrer #490
11 If you were coming in the fall — Emily Dickinson #529
11 Mirror — Sylvia Plath #678
11 I Do Not Love Thee, Dr Fell — Tom Brown #877
11 The End — A A Milne #1097
11 Bilbo's Last Song — J R R Tolkien #1112
11 The Mother — Padraic H Pearse #1188
11 The Cold Within — James Patrick Kinney #1248
11 A Strike Among the Poets — Anonymous #1340
11 Now I'm Easy — Eric Bogle #1557
10 Scarborough Fair — Anonymous #7
10 On First Looking Into Chapman's Homer — John Keats #12
10 So We'll Go No More a-Roving — George Gordon, Lord Byron #62
10 A Red, Red Rose — Robert Burns #81
10 The Thought Fox — Ted Hughes #98
10 Resume — Dorothy Parker #150
10 Chief Seattle's Reply — Chief Sealth (Seattle) #184
10 Toads — Philip Larkin #544
10 Ten Ways to Avoid Lending Your Wheelbarrow to Anybody — Adrian Mitchell #623
10 The January Man — Dave Goulder #648
10 The Cataract of Lodore — Robert Southey #652
10 The Secret Sits — Robert Frost #681
10 The Wreck of the Hesperus — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #717
10 Mending Wall — Robert Frost #730
10 Jim — Hilaire Belloc #809
10 A Vow — Allen Ginsberg #1223
10 Richard Cory — Edwin Arlington Robinson #1317
10 English Monarchs — Anonymous #1361

5–9 comments (163)

9 Kubla Khan — Samuel Taylor Coleridge #30
9 My Mistress' Eyes are Nothing Like the Sun (Sonnets CXXX) — William Shakespeare #44
9 The Purple Cow — Gelett Burgess #120
9 Ars Poetica — Archibald MacLeish #188
9 Miniver Cheevy — Edwin Arlington Robinson #234
9 The Ballad of Father Gilligan — William Butler Yeats #237
9 A Supermarket in California — Allen Ginsberg #244
9 Three Rings for the Elven Kings — J R R Tolkien #257
9 The Soldier — Rupert Brooke #280
9 Not my Best Side — U A Fanthorpe #438
9 Leda and the Swan — William Butler Yeats #451
9 Hall and Knight — E V Rieu #601
9 The North Wind Doth Blow — Anonymous #646
9 Northwest Passage — Stan Rogers #783
9 The Diplomatic Platypus — Patrick Barrington #1028
9 Stately as a Galleon — Joyce Grenfell #1241
8 The Road Goes Ever On — J R R Tolkien #4
8 Song — Christina Rossetti #8
8 Uphill — Christina Rossetti #47
8 Spring and Fall, to a Young Child — Gerard Manley Hopkins #59
8 Musee des Beaux Arts — W H Auden #68
8 The Bells — Edgar Allan Poe #101
8 The Panther — Rainer Maria Rilke #136
8 The Great Panjandrum — Samuel Foote #208
8 Poem In October — Dylan Thomas #225
8 The Pied Piper of Hamelin — Robert Browning #242
8 The Journey of the Magi — T S Eliot #291
8 The Pobble Who Has No Toes — Edward Lear #297
8 The Buddha at Kamakura — Rudyard Kipling #379
8 Heraclitus — William Johnson Cory #380
8 The Slave's Dream — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #629
8 Patterns — Amy Lowell #644
8 Eating Poetry — Mark Strand #676
8 At the Theatre: To the Lady Behind Me — A P Herbert #732
8 Love bade me welcome — George Herbert #820
8 Where Go the Boats? — Robert Louis Stevenson #828
8 Sonnet: Love Is Not All — Edna St Vincent Millay #860
8 The Erl-King — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe #920
8 Blackberry-picking — Seamus Heaney #934
8 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love — Christopher Marlowe #997
8 Children — Kahlil Gibran #1194
8 Here Dead We Lie — A E Housman #1227
8 I Had a Hippopotamus — Patrick Barrington #1576
7 Home Thoughts From Abroad — Robert Browning #65
7 Preludes — T S Eliot #107
7 Ariel — Sylvia Plath #129
7 Harp Song of the Dane Women — Rudyard Kipling #143
7 Pangur Ban — Anonymous #167
7 A Route of Evanescence — Emily Dickinson #174
7 Recompense — Robert E Howard #261
7 A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning — John Donne #330
7 Earth — John Hall Wheelock #432
7 Fear no more the heat o' the sun — William Shakespeare #477
7 The Fall of Rome — W H Auden #494
7 The Patriot — Nissim Ezekiel #516
7 Barbara Allen — Anonymous #548
7 Mean Mr. Mustard / Polythene Pam — John Lennon #631
7 The Cremation of Sam McGee — Robert Service #698
7 Conquistador — Keith Reid #743
7 Mother's Little Helper — Mick Jagger and Keith Richards #933
7 The Look — Sara Teasdale #937
7 The Darkling Thrush — Thomas Hardy #977
7 The Band Played Waltzing Matilda — Eric Bogle #981
7 Separation — W S Merwin #1107
7 The Common Cormorant — Christopher Isherwood #1111
7 Gunga Din — Rudyard Kipling #1127
7 Snowball — Shel Silverstein #1128
7 Untitled — Plato #1279
7 Ordinance on Arrival — Naomi Lazard #1312
7 Someday Someone Will Bet That You Can't Name All Fifty States — Judith Viorst #1358
6 The Ballad of East and West — Rudyard Kipling #67
6 The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter — Ezra Pound #70
6 Eärendil was a mariner — J R R Tolkien #93
6 The Fly — William Blake #97
6 Your Attention Please — Peter Porter #222
6 Base Details — Siegfried Sassoon #385
6 When You Are Old — William Butler Yeats #436
6 Coda — Octavio Paz #442
6 Who By fire — Leonard Cohen #481
6 The Sick Rose — William Blake #546
6 Split the Lark — Emily Dickinson #580
6 In Westminster Abbey — John Betjeman #613
6 somewhere i have never travelled — e e cummings #619
6 Vergissmeinnicht — Keith Douglas #710
6 I'm Nobody! Who are you? — Emily Dickinson #711
6 Loch Lomond — Lady John Scott #719
6 The Invitation — Oriah Mountain Dreamer #738
6 Song of Creation — Anonymous #739
6 Desiderata — Max Ehrmannn #761
6 Frustration — Dorothy Parker #878
6 All Along The Watch-Tower — Bob Dylan #890
6 Donal Og — Anonymous #974
6 The Gift Outright — Robert Frost #994
6 Casabianca — Elizabeth Bishop #999
6 Cat — J R R Tolkien #1008
6 Easter, 1916 — William Butler Yeats #1011
6 Greensleeves — Anonymous #1027
6 What the Bullet sang — Bret Harte #1033
6 Prayer before Birth — Louis MacNeice #1039
6 Angel Wings — Brian Patten #1052
6 The Lama — Ogden Nash #1080
6 Porphyria's Lover — Robert Browning #1109
6 Hope — Edith Sodergran #1122
6 Luthien Tinuviel — J R R Tolkien #1138
6 Die Gedanken Sind Frei (Our Thoughts Are Free) — Traditional #1185
6 Each in his own Tongue — William Herbert Carruth #1197
6 The Village Schoolmaster — Oliver Goldsmith #1220
6 Self-Improvement — Tony Hoagland #1236
6 The Carpenter's Son — A E Housman #1262
6 In the Middle of the Road — Carlos Drummond de Andrade #1471
6 Acquainted with the Night — Robert Frost #1564
5 La Figlia Che Piange (The Weeping Girl) — T S Eliot #9
5 The Major General's Song — W S Gilbert #88
5 On His Blindness — John Milton #106
5 Suzanne — Leonard Cohen #116
5 Our revels now are ended — William Shakespeare #126
5 Fern Hill — Dylan Thomas #138
5 O Captain! My Captain! — Walt Whitman #157
5 The Loch Ness Monster's Song — Edwin Morgan #215
5 Psalm 23 — David #218
5 Ode to a Nightingale — John Keats #316
5 Song — John Donne #384
5 Portrait of the Artist as a Prematurely Old Man — Ogden Nash #402
5 The Tables Turned — William Wordsworth #411
5 March — Boris Pasternak #419
5 Keeping Things Whole — Mark Strand #453
5 The Man He Killed — Thomas Hardy #479
5 Warning to Children — Robert Graves #564
5 The Philosopher's Drinking Song — Monty Python #615
5 Villanelle — W H Auden #677
5 Joan of Arc — Leonard Cohen #744
5 An Arundel Tomb — Philip Larkin #756
5 Strawberries — Edwin Morgan #827
5 The Kraken — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #896
5 Once by the Pacific — Robert Frost #985
5 Dream Deferred — Langston Hughes #1006
5 Carentan O Carentan — Louis Simpson #1013
5 Buckingham Palace — A A Milne #1022
5 Travel — Edna St Vincent Millay #1064
5 On Turning Ten — Billy Collins #1096
5 Causa Belli — Andrew Motion #1143
5 Adlestrop — Edward Thomas #1192
5 Love and Tensor Algebra — Stanislaw Lem #1205
5 Sonnet — Billy Collins #1216
5 Brother Mick — Sigerson Clifford #1222
5 The Night has a Thousand Eyes — Francis William Bourdillon #1240
5 A Contribution to Statistics — Wislawa Szymborska #1267
5 The Birthright — Eiluned Lewis #1297
5 Meeting Point — Louis MacNeice #1301
5 Lobachevsky — Tom Lehrer #1316
5 Ample Make This Bed — Emily Dickinson #1337
5 Carpe Diem Baby — James Hetfield #1341
5 Autumn — Rainer Maria Rilke #1384
5 The Law the Lawyers Know About — H D C Pepler #1392
5 Introduction to Poetry — Billy Collins #1397
5 River — Joni Mitchell #1409
5 Spring Song, Meirionydd — John Dressel #1457
5 Ars Poetica — Czeslaw Milosz #1545
5 My Love is Theosophist — Patrick Barrington #1551
5 Both Sides Now — Joni Mitchell #1556
5 Visits to St. Elizabeth's — Elizabeth Bishop #1563
5 At Funchal (Island of Madeira) — Tomas Transtromer #1621
5 The Betrothed — Rudyard Kipling #1922

2–4 comments (461)

4 Prologue — Dylan Thomas #14
4 The Way Through the Woods — Rudyard Kipling #17
4 An Irish Airman Foresees His Death — William Butler Yeats #32
4 Ireland, Ireland — Sir Henry Newbolt #41
4 Winter landscape, with rocks — Sylvia Plath #53
4 The Raven — Edgar Allan Poe #85
4 The Embarrassing Episode of Little Miss Muffet — Guy Wetmore Carryl #94
4 Days — Philip Larkin #100
4 The Viking Terror — Anonymous #109
4 Buffalo Bill's/ defunct — e e cummings #139
4 The Unspoken — Edwin Morgan #147
4 The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam — Omar Khayyam #162
4 Hoochie Coochie Man — Willie Dixon #173
4 There Will Come Soft Rains — Sara Teasdale #223
4 Delay — Elizabeth Jennings #249
4 Macavity: The Mystery Cat — T S Eliot #258
4 The Litany for Doneraile — Patrick O'Kelly #266
4 Under Milk Wood — Dylan Thomas #270
4 A Great Poem — Gavin Ewart #283
4 The Tay Bridge Disaster — William McGonagall #343
4 The Waste Land (Part IV) — T S Eliot #354
4 The Negro Speaks of Rivers — Langston Hughes #410
4 Sir Patrick Spens — Anonymous #437
4 The Chariot — Emily Dickinson #458
4 Composed Upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802 — William Wordsworth #462
4 Petra — John William Burgon #487
4 About Tu Fu — Li Po #504
4 The Golden Road to Samarkand — James Elroy Flecker #509
4 A Lost Chord — Adelaide Procter #520
4 Love's Philosophy — Percy Bysshe Shelley #531
4 Growltiger's Last Stand — T S Eliot #574
4 The Cat and the Moon — William Butler Yeats #577
4 Sonnet XLIII — Edna St Vincent Millay #590
4 Saddest Poem — Pablo Neruda #605
4 Think, in this Batter'd Caravanserai — Omar Khayyam #654
4 Poem — William Carlos Williams #659
4 Reflections on Ice-Breaking — Ogden Nash #667
4 Gone Are The Days — Norman MacCaig #755
4 To a Millionaire — Archibald Lampman #784
4 Nearer, my God, to Thee — Sarah Flower Adams #806
4 I'm Explaining a Few Things — Pablo Neruda #816
4 The Hippopotamus — Ogden Nash #848
4 Wind — Ted Hughes #882
4 The Fairies — William Allingham #919
4 Dirge Without Music — Edna St Vincent Millay #926
4 Channel Firing — Thomas Hardy #939
4 The Palace — Rudyard Kipling #940
4 Whoso list to hunt, I know where is an hind — Thomas Wyatt #957
4 The Kerry Christmas Carol — Sigerson Clifford #970
4 Casabianca — Felicia Hemans #1000
4 Abide with me — Henry F Lyte #1007
4 A Prayer For My Daughter — William Butler Yeats #1020
4 Thais — Newman Levy #1025
4 Let Evening Come — Jane Kenyon #1066
4 The Leaden-Eyed — Vachel Lindsay #1069
4 Water Lilies — Sara Teasdale #1078
4 What Love is Like — Piet Hein #1092
4 Variations on the Word "Sleep" — Margaret Atwood #1093
4 The Law Locks Up the Man or Woman — Anonymous #1120
4 In Paris with You — James Fenton #1142
4 Don't Go Far Off — Pablo Neruda #1149
4 Annabel Lee — Edgar Allan Poe #1170
4 The Ballad of Yukon Jake — Edward E Paramore Jr #1171
4 Splendour in the Grass — William Wordsworth #1173
4 Not Waving But Drowning — Stevie Smith #1180
4 A Farewell — Charles Kingsley #1191
4 The ABC — Spike Milligan #1196
4 A Man Said to the Universe — Stephen Crane #1200
4 Regime Change — Andrew Motion #1215
4 To My Wife - With A Copy Of My Poems — Oscar Wilde #1226
4 Anyone lived in a pretty how town — e e cummings #1260
4 Morning XXVII — Pablo Neruda #1263
4 A Dream Pang — Robert Frost #1276
4 Miss Gee — W H Auden #1298
4 I am Very Bothered — Simon Armitage #1310
4 The Wind — Vikram Seth #1318
4 The Icelandic Language — Bill Holm #1349
4 The Horses — Edwin Muir #1378
4 The Children’s Hour — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #1396
4 As the poets have mournfully sung — W H Auden #1403
4 The River — Pare Lorentz #1424
4 Winter Reigns — Mary Youngquist #1429
4 And Death Shall Have No Dominion — Dylan Thomas #1486
4 Rocket Show — James K Baxter #1506
4 O Where Are You Going? — W H Auden #1508
4 The Bloody Orkneys — Hamish Blair #1521
4 Slough — John Betjeman #1522
4 Timid Frieda — Jacques Brel #1529
4 Good Gnus — P G Wodehouse #1537
4 You are old, Father William — Lewis Carroll #1544
4 His Coy Mistress to Mr. Marvell — A D Hope #1567
4 The Owl — Edward Thomas #1577
4 Ode on a Grecian Urn — John Keats #1603
3 On His Seventy-fifth Birthday — Walter Savage Landor #10
3 Haiku — Matsuo Basho #23
3 the lesson of the moth — Don Marquis #36
3 Lament for Boromir — J R R Tolkien #46
3 Jabberwocky — Lewis Carroll #52
3 The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower — Dylan Thomas #58
3 The Solitary Reaper — William Wordsworth #82
3 Cottleston Pie — A A Milne #91
3 A Poem on the Underground Wall — Paul Simon #119
3 The Owl and the Pussy-Cat — Edward Lear #165
3 Water — Philip Larkin #178
3 La Belle Dame Sans Merci — John Keats #182
3 By-the-Way — Patrick MacGill #186
3 Blow, winds, and crack your cheeks — William Shakespeare #200
3 The Battle of Blenheim — Robert Southey #203
3 Clerihews — Edmund Clerihew Bentley #207
3 The Golf Links — Sarah Norcliffe Cleghorn #216
3 Ithaka — Constantine Cavafy #217
3 Under One Small Star — Wislawa Szymborska #224
3 The Green Hills of Earth — Robert A Heinlein #241
3 I Hear America Singing — Walt Whitman #246
3 No! — Thomas Hood #251
3 The Mad Gardener's Song — Lewis Carroll #265
3 Mad About You — Gordon Matthew 'Sting' Sumner #287
3 Howl — Allen Ginsberg #293
3 Common Cold — Ogden Nash #325
3 Psycholophon — Gelett Burgess #334
3 Cologne — Samuel Taylor Coleridge #361
3 There Was an Old Man with a Beard — Edward Lear #378
3 Palanquin Bearers — Sarojini Naidu #390
3 The Night Piece, To Julia — Robert Herrick #398
3 The Indian Serenade — Percy Bysshe Shelley #399
3 Solomon and the Witch — William Butler Yeats #407
3 The Song of Songs — Anonymous #423
3 The Moonsheep — Christian Morgenstern #424
3 Reply to the Question: "How can You Become a Poet?" — Eve Merriam #428
3 He Fell Among Thieves — Sir Henry Newbolt #456
3 The Sun Rising — John Donne #465
3 Otherwise — Jane Kenyon #474
3 The Story of Prince Agib — W S Gilbert #505
3 The Suicide — Louis MacNeice #521
3 You Will Be Hearing From Us Shortly — U A Fanthorpe #541
3 Ballade of the Hanged (Villon's Epitaph) — Francois Villon #556
3 Get Drunk! — Charles Baudelaire #581
3 Terence, this is stupid stuff — A E Housman #588
3 Sonnet: England in 1819 — Percy Bysshe Shelley #592
3 God's Grandeur — Gerard Manley Hopkins #606
3 The Spider's Web — E B White #608
3 Aaron Stark — Edwin Arlington Robinson #636
3 The Man in the Moon Came Down Too Soon — J R R Tolkien #643
3 Teeth — Spike Milligan #701
3 Full Moon and Little Frieda — Ted Hughes #723
3 A Ballad of John Nicholson — Sir Henry Newbolt #731
3 Parting — Li Po #749
3 The Name — Alexander Pushkin #760
3 A Thing of Beauty is a Joy for Ever — John Keats #770
3 The Divine Image — William Blake #771
3 In the Microscope — Miroslav Holub #800
3 Love Minus Zero / No Limit — Bob Dylan #832
3 Sometimes — Sheenagh Pugh #874
3 The Day is Done — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #884
3 To a Fat Lady Seen From the Train — Frances Cornford #906
3 John Kinsella's Lament for Mrs Mary Moore — William Butler Yeats #918
3 Parable of the Madman — Friedrich Nietzsche #953
3 Sit — Vikram Seth #966
3 The March of the Dead — Robert Service #980
3 Finding a Long Gray Hair — Jane Kenyon #1004
3 The Hand That Signed The Paper — Dylan Thomas #1035
3 The Steeple-Jack — Marianne Moore #1043
3 Down With Fanatics! — Roger Woddis #1049
3 Happiness — A A Milne #1051
3 Bleezer's Ice Cream — Jack Prelutsky #1055
3 next to of course god america i — e e cummings #1072
3 Unfortunate Coincidence — Dorothy Parker #1090
3 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard — Thomas Gray #1091
3 Locksley Hall — Alfred, Lord Tennyson #1106
3 Marginalia — Billy Collins #1130
3 Untitled — Issa #1136
3 War Song of the Saracens — James Elroy Flecker #1145
3 The Death of Emmett Till — Bob Dylan #1151
3 A Night Abroad — Du Fu #1159
3 Almighty Ruler of the All — Robert A Heinlein #1162
3 The Good-morrow — John Donne #1168
3 The Blind Men and the Elephant — John Godfrey Saxe #1179
3 Cherrylog Road — James Dickey #1193
3 Last Poems #13 — Rabindranath Tagore #1203
3 To A Poet A Thousand Years Hence — James Elroy Flecker #1225
3 Twenty Tons of TNT — Michael Flanders #1268
3 To A Sad Daughter — Michael Ondaatje #1270
3 Lepanto — G K Chesterton #1280
3 Just a Smack at Auden — William Empson #1311
3 Math Is Beautiful and So Are You — Becky Dennison Sakellariou #1314
3 Forced March — Miklos Radnoti #1325
3 Where Everything Is Music — Jalaluddin Rumi #1334
3 Eurydice — Sue Hubbard #1367
3 Even If You Grab A Piece of Time — Ruth Forman #1394
3 An Old Sicilian Song — Dario Fo #1404
3 Telnet Song — Guy L Steele, Jr #1419
3 Octopusses — Simon Goodway #1428
3 Let Me Think — Faiz Ahmed Faiz #1442
3 Being Boring — Wendy Cope #1444
3 Rose, Oh Pure Contradiction, Joy — Rainer Maria Rilke #1451
3 The Queerness of it All — bpNichol #1455
3 The Wombat — Ogden Nash #1484
3 The Uncertainty of the Poet — Wendy Cope #1499
3 Past One O'Clock — Vladimir Mayakovsky #1531
3 John Muir on Mt. Ritter — Gary Snyder #1541
3 A Good Poem — Tukaram #1575
3 Exequy on his Wife — Henry King #1600
3 From Beppo — George Gordon, Lord Byron #1601
3 The Gruffalo — Julia Donaldson #1615
3 We Real Cool — Gwendolyn Brooks #1626
3 Wisdom — Sara Teasdale #1677
3 To a Young Poet — R S Thomas #1726
3 You're the Top — Cole Porter #1730
3 Untitled — Dorothy Parker #1744
3 A Place To Be — Nick Drake #1782
3 The Doctor — A P Herbert #1800
3 From the Frontier of Writing — Seamus Heaney #1806
3 Refugee Blues — W H Auden #1869
3 A Style of Loving — Vikram Seth #1913
3 Prohibition — Franklin P Adams #1914
3 I Asked No Other Thing — Emily Dickinson #1925
3 Breakfast — Jacques Prevert #1932
2 Inversnaid — Gerard Manley Hopkins #3
2 Chicago — Carl Sandburg #5
2 Full Fathom Five — William Shakespeare #16
2 John Anderson My Jo — Robert Burns #19
2 Mercian Hymns — Geoffrey Hill #37
2 The Riddle of the World — Alexander Pope #39
2 Winter Night — Boris Pasternak #45
2 Pardon me, thou bleeding piece of earth — William Shakespeare #48
2 In Memory of W. B. Yeats — W H Auden #50
2 Welsh Incident — Robert Graves #55
2 Madhushala (The Tavern) — Harivansh Rai Bachchan #72
2 archy interviews a pharoh — Don Marquis #76
2 The Pelagian Drinking Song — Hilaire Belloc #78
2 Nostalgia - Now Threepence Off — Adrian Mitchell #95
2 Intimates — D H Lawrence #110
2 A Prison Evening — Faiz Ahmed Faiz #118
2 London, 1802 — William Wordsworth #128
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1 Drinking Song — J K Stephen #1473
1 Ae Fond Kiss — Robert Burns #1474
1 I Sought on Earth a Garden of Delight — George Santayana #1475
1 Then Wear the Gold Hat — Thomas Parke D'Invilliers #1476
1 The Bronco That Would Not Be Broken — Vachel Lindsay #1477
1 A Piece Of The Storm — Mark Strand #1478
1 An Infinite Number of Monkeys — Ronald Koertge #1483
1 Untitled — Anise #1485
1 The Ruin — Dafydd ap Gwilym #1489
1 Souls And Rain-Drops — Sidney Lanier #1490
1 The Silver Swan — Orlando Gibbons #1491
1 No Swan So Fine — Marianne Moore #1492
1 John Keats — J D Salinger #1500
1 The Quality of Mercy is not Strain'd — William Shakespeare #1501
1 Law Like Love — W H Auden #1502
1 The Purist — Ogden Nash #1510
1 Lot's Wife — Anna Akhmatova #1511
1 I'm not Lonely — Nikki Giovanni #1540
1 Let the memorial hill remember — Yehuda Amichai #1548
1 Health Fanatic — John Cooper Clarke #1549
1 The Puppet — Charles de Lint #1553
1 On a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Gold Fishes — Thomas Gray #1555
1 Afternoons — Philip Larkin #1558
1 Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night — Walt Whitman #1559
1 Elegy to a Calf (Lamento pastorello) — Sarah Binks #1560
1 The Young Fools — Paul Verlaine #1562
1 Strugnell's Sonnets (iv) — Wendy Cope #1573
1 The Cherry Tree Carol — Traditional #1578
1 A Ritual to Read to Each Other — William Stafford #1580
1 The Explorer — Rudyard Kipling #1586
1 At a Lecture — Joseph Brodsky #1588
1 Epitaph for the Race of Man: X — Edna St Vincent Millay #1589
1 Tao Te Ching: Verse 57 — Lao-Tzu #1593
1 As Kingfishers Catch Fire — Gerard Manley Hopkins #1594
1 Two Songs Of A Fool — William Butler Yeats #1599
1 Sonnet XXIII: Methought I Saw My Late Espoused Saint — John Milton #1602
1 Lament for Thomas MacDonagh — Francis Ledwidge #1607
1 Cat in an Empty Apartment — Wislawa Szymborska #1608
1 Mrs. Thatcher — Sue Townsend #1609
1 For the Man Who Taught Tricks to Owls — David Wagoner #1610
1 Poem for Everyone — John T Wood #1617
1 Absences — Dom Moraes #1618
1 Second Honeymoon — Tony Scanlon #1619
1 Let Me Die a Youngman's Death — Roger McGough #1627
1 suppose — e e cummings #1628
1 Overture to a Dance of Locomotives — William Carlos Williams #1636
1 You know, my Friends, how Long since in my House — Omar Khayyam #1640
1 Magna est Veritas — Coventry Patmore #1641
1 Men at Forty — Donald Justice #1647
1 We Should Talk about This Problem — Hafiz #1654
1 The Echoing Green — William Blake #1663
1 Selecting A Reader — Ted Kooser #1666
1 Love Over Gold — Mark Knopfler #1667
1 Aedh Laments the Loss of Love — William Butler Yeats #1668
1 The Lion For Real — Allen Ginsberg #1674
1 Spring Wedding — Andrew Motion #1675
1 Patriotism — Sir Walter Scott #1690
1 Untitled — Samuel Beckett #1702
1 The Oblation — Algernon Charles Swinburne #1703
1 Do not Stand at my Grave and Weep — Mary Frye #1704
1 The Chambered Nautilus — Oliver Wendell Holmes #1705
1 Cuckoo Song — Anonymous #1709
1 Madeira, M'Dear — Michael Flanders #1710
1 Geetanjali — Rabindranath Tagore #1714
1 Untitled — Dag Hammarskjöld #1716
1 The Talking Back of Miss Valentine Jones: Poem # one — June Jordan #1724
1 The Star-Spangled Banner — Francis Scott Key #1729
1 Nonadaptation — Czeslaw Milosz #1731
1 On Laws (The Prophet, Chapter 13) — Kahlil Gibran #1734
1 Three Songs of Shattering - I — Edna St Vincent Millay #1739
1 I Taste a Liquor Never Brewed — Emily Dickinson #1743
1 The Aerial — Wendy Cope #1745
1 The Deluge — G K Chesterton #1746
1 Diatribe Against the Dead — Angel Gonzalez #1751
1 An Apology — F J Bergmann #1759
1 Leaves of Grass, Section 14, Poem 6 — Walt Whitman #1760
1 An Attempt At Unrhymed Verse — Wendy Cope #1764
1 To Autumn — John Keats #1781
1 Moses' Poem — Anonymous #1783
1 Broken Hearts — Jeremy Reed #1790
1 The Huron Carol — St Jean de Brébeuf #1794
1 Tangmalangaloo — John O'Brien #1795
1 Flying at Night — Ted Kooser #1796
1 With God on our Side — Bob Dylan #1801
1 The Talented Man — Winthrop Mackworth Praed #1868
1 Calling it Quits — Aimee Mann #1871
1 Harry Wilmans — Edgar Lee Masters #1875
1 Reflection on the Fallibility of Nemesis — Ogden Nash #1881
1 Hyacinths — Muslih-uh-Din Sa'di #1882
1 A Grievance — J K Stephen #1889
1 On The Hurry Of This Time — Henry Austin Dobson #1900
1 Question — Rabindranath Tagore #1910
1 The Rainy Day — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow #1912
1 Sing a Song of Europe — Anonymous #1917
1 Everybody Knows — Leonard Cohen #1918
1 The Bee Box — Lowell Parker #1923
1 The Dover Bitch — Anthony Hecht #1930
1 Where Lesbians Come From — Jan Sellers #1933
1 Untitled — Michael Leunig #1936
1 Simplify Me When I'm Dead — Keith Douglas #1945
1 Spring is like a perhaps hand — e e cummings #1947
1 The Dove — Leonard Cohen #1949
1 A Deep-Sworn Vow — William Butler Yeats #1950
1 l(a — e e cummings #1956
1 The International Terminal — Les Murray #1958
1 The Boy Who Laughed at Santa Claus — Ogden Nash #1964
1 To Virgins, to Make Much of Time — Robert Herrick #1965
1 Hello In There — John Prine #1966
1 The Old Fools — Philip Larkin #1968
1 The Word — Tony Hoagland #1969