Before the "real" poets, don't miss one of today's most significant poems – OK, it's a song. As always, songwriters are certainly our most socially significant poets. See this (with video) or you'll be sorry: | John McCutcheon Christmas in the Trenches |
Robert Browning My Last Duchess |
Emily Dickinson There's a certain slant of light |
Rita Dove Parsley |
T.S. Eliot The Journey of the Magi |
Robert Frost Mending wall |
Thomas Hardy The Darkling Thrush |
Seamus Heaney Electric Light |
Anthony Hecht Sarabande on attaining the age of 77 |
John Keats Ode on a Grecian Urn |
Rudyard Kipling If |
Louis MacNeice Woods |
Claude McKay The White House |
Howard Nemerov Landscape with Figures |
Wilfred Owen Sonnet – On Seeing... Artillery... |
Ezra Pound Ballad of the Goodly Fere |
Carl Sandburg Chicago |
William Shakespeare When in disgrace with fortune |
Wallace Stevens Sunday Morning |
Francis Thompson The Hound Of Heaven |
W.B. Yeats The Second Coming |