My Favourite Poetry



Anonymous
Haiku - Various Authors
Be Merry
Beatings
Spell Checker Blues
To Santa Claus and Little Sisters
To Whom Shall I Speak Today?

W H Auden
Stop all the clocks

William Blake
A Poison Tree
Eternity
Jerusalem

Elizabeth Barrett Browning
How do I love thee?

Robert Burns
A Red, Red Rose

Lord Byron
She Walks in Beauty

Lewis Carroll
Jabberwocky

Charles Causley
Timothy Winters

Leonard Cohen
Suzanne

E.E. Cummings
Buffalo Bill's/ defunct
maggy and milly and molly and may
pity this busy monster, manunkind
Where's Madge then

David
Psalm 23

John Donne
No Man is an Island

Bob Dylan
Mr.Tambourine Man

Robert Frost
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

W S Gilbert
The Major General's Song

Thom Gunn
Baby Song

Charles Haddon-Cave
The Loneliness of the Commuter

Thomas Hardy
Heredity

Gerard Manley Hopkins
Pied Beauty
The Windhover

Clive James
The Book of my Enemy Has Been Remaindered

Neil Gaiman
Boys and Girls Together

Randall Jarrell
The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner

Elizabeth Jennings
Bedsitters

John Keats
La Belle Dame Sans Merci

Joyce Kilmer
Trees

Rudyard Kipling
If

Omar Khayyam
The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Philip Larkin
Days
Home is so Sad
This Be The Verse
The North Ship


Edward Lear
The Owl and the Pussy-Cat
The Pobble Who Has No Toes

Hugh MacDermiad
The Weapon

Louis MacNeice
The Suicide

Pilot Officer John Gillespie Magee
High Flight

John Masefield
Cargoes

Ogden Nash
Reflection on Ingenuity
The Cow
The Germ
The Octopus
The Pig

bpNichol
dear Captain Poetry

Wilfred Owen
Dulce Et Decorum Est
Futility
Insensibility

Dorothy Parker
Resume

Brian Patten
Little Johnny's Final Letter

Sylvia Plath
Ariel

Peter Porter
Your Attention Please

Ezra Pound
And the days are not full enough

William Shakespeare
All the world's a stage
Our revels now are ended
'Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day?

Paul Simon
A Poem on the Underground Wall

Stevie Smith
Bog-Face
Not Waving but Drowning
The Penitent


Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Kubla Khan


Dylan Thomas
And death shall have no dominion

J.R.R Tolkien
All that is gold does not glitter

Lao-Tsu
Untitled

Walt Whitman
O Captain! My Captain!

Andrei Voznesensky
War