50 of the Greatest Poets

1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 1772-1834
   • The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
   • Kubla Khan
   • Frost at Midnight

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2. Edgar Allan Poe: 1809-1849
   • The Raven
   • Annabel Lee
   • A Dream Within a Dream

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3. Robert Frost: 1874-1963
   • Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
   • The Road Not Taken
   • Nothing Gold Can Stay

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4. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: 18078-1882
   • Wreck of the Hesperus
   • Paul Revere's Ride
   • The Song of Hiawatha

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5. William Shakespeare: 1564- 1616
   • Sonnet 18
   • Sonnet 71
   • Sonnet 116

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6. William Wordsworth: 1770-1850
   • I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud
   • Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey
   • The World is Too Much With Us

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7. Maya Angelou: 1928- 2014
   • Still I Rise
   • I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
   • Touched by an Angel

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8. Rudyard Kipling: 1865- 1936
   • If
   • The Way Through the Woods

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9. William Blake: 1757- 1827
   • The Tyger
   • Loves Secret

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10 Emily Dickinson: 1830-1886
   • Because I Could Not Stop for Death
   • I'm Nobody! Who are You?
   • How Far is It to Heaven?

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11. Geoffrey Chaucer: 1340's-1400
   • The Canterbury Tales
   • Troilus and Criseyde

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12. John Donne: 1572-1631
   • Death Be Not Proud
   • For Whom the Bell Tolls
   • The Flea

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13. Alfred Noyes: 1880- 1958
   • The Highwayman
   • The Moon is Up

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14. Dylan Thomas: 1914-1953
   • Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
   • I See the Boys of Summer

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15. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1806-1861
   • How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
   • The Cry of the Children

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16. Alfred Lord Tennyson: 1809- 1892
   • In Memoriam
   • The Lady of Shallot
   • The Charge of the Light Brigade
   • Idylls of the King

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17. Lord Byron : 1788- 1824
   • She Walks in Beauty
   • The Dream

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18. Christina Rossetti: 1830-1894
   • When I am Dead My Dearest
   • The Goblin Market
   • Remember

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19. Robert Service: 1874- 1958
   • The Cremation of Sam McGee
   • It is Later Than You Think

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20. Rumi : 1207-1273
   • Because I Cannot Sleep
   • The Guest House
   • All Through Eternity

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21. Lauren Ferlinghetti: 1919-2021
   • Constantly Risking Absurdity
   • Bird with Two Right Wings

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22. Mary Oliver: 1935-2019
   • The Swan
   • When Death Comes
   • The Journey

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23. Walt Whitman: 1819- 1892
   • O Captian! My Captain!
   • Song of Myself
   • I Sing the Body Electric

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24. Emma Lazarus: 1849- 1887
   • The New Colossus
   • A Masque of Venice

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25. Homer: 8th Century BC
   • The Iliad
   • The Odyssey

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26. Edmund Spencer: 1552-1599
   • The Faerie Queene
   • One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand

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27. Lewis Carroll: 1832-1898
   • The Walrus and the Carpenter
   • The Hunting of the Snark
   • The Jabberwocky

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28. Robert Browning: 1812-1889
   • My Last Duchess
   • Fra Lippo Lippi
   • Love Among the Ruins

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29. John Keats: 1795-1821
   • Ode to a Nightingale
   • Ode on a Grecian Urn

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30. Amanda Gorman: 1998-
   • The Hill We Climb
   • Earthrise
   • The Miracle of Morning

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31. Shel Siverstein: 1930-1999
   • Where the Sidewalk Ends
   • A Boy Named Sue

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32. Langston Hughes: 1901-1967
   • Dream Deferred
   • Mother to Son
   • I, Too

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33. Carl Sandburg: 1878-1967
   • The Fog
   • Chicago

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34. Sherman Alexie: 1966-
   • Grief Calls Us to the Things of this World
   • Good Hair
   • Terminal Nostalgia

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35. Rod McKuen: 1933-2015
   • The Need
   • A Cat Named Sloopy

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36. Anne Bradstreet: 1612-1672
   • To My Dear and Loving Husband
   • For Deliverance From a Fever

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37. John Greenleaf Whittier: 1807- 1892
   • Barbara Fritchie
   • Ichabod

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38. Percy Bysshe Shelley: 1792-1822
   • To a Skylark
   • Ozymandias

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39. William Butler Yeats: 1865- 1939
   • When You Are Old
   • All Souls Night

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40. Matsuo Basho: 1644-1694
   • A Caterpillar
   • The Old Pond
   • From Time to Time

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41. Thomas Moore: 1779-1852
   • Drink to Her
   • Enigma

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42. Robert Burns: 1759-1796
   • To A Mouse
   • A Red
   • Red Rose
   • Tam o'Shanter

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43. Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1803- 1882
   • Give All to Love
   • Concord Hymn

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44. Andrew Marvell: 1621-1678
   • To HIs Coy Mistress
   • A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body
   • The Death of Cromwell

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45. Omar Khayyam: 1048- 1131
   • The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
   • Now the New Year

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46. James Kavanaugh: 1928-2009
   • There are Men too Gentle to Live Among Wolves
   • Will You Be My Friend?

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47. Theodore Roethke: 1908-1963
   • The Waking
   • The Bat
   • The Sloth

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48. Wendell Berry: 1934-
   • The Peace of Wild Things
   • I Go Among Trees and Sit Still
   • How to Be a Poet

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49. Pablo Neruda: 1904-1973
   • I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You
   • Always

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50. Anne Sexton: 1928-1974
   • Her Kind
   • Mercy Street