Poems

Here are links to poems I love.

Matthew Arnold: The Scholar-Gipsy

Margaret Atwood: Variation on the Word Sleep

WH Auden: Funeral Blues

WH Auden: If I Could Tell You

WH Auden: In Memory of WB Yeats

WH Auden: O Tell Me the Truth Love

WH Auden: Night Mail

WH Auden: Refugee Blues

WH Auden: September 1, 1939

WH Auden: The Unknown Citizen

John Betjeman: A Subaltern’s Love Song

Sujata Bhatt: A Different History

Robert Browning:  Andrea del Sarto

Robert Browning: The Last Ride Together

Sharon Bryan: Sweater Weather: A Love Song to Language

Robert Burns: A Red, Red Rose

Robert Burns: John Anderson, My Jo

Billy Collins: Birthday

Billy Collins: Fool Me Good

Billy Collins: Forgetfulness

Billy Collins: House

Billy Collins: Litany

Billy Collins: The Lanyard

Billy Collins: The Trouble with Poetry

Wendy Cope: Flowers

Wendy Cope: Spared

Wendy Cope: Valentine

John Donne: The Good-Morrow

Rita Dove: Maple Valley Branch Library, 1967

TS Eliot: Rhapsody on a Windy Night

TS Eliot: The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

James Fenton: In Paris with You

Lawrence Ferlinghetti I Am Waiting

Lawrence Ferlinghetti Sometime During Eternity

Robert Frost Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Robert Frost The Road Not Taken

Leah Furnas: The Longly-Weds Know

Allen Ginsberg: A Supermarket in California

Barbara Hamby: Ode to American English

Adrian Henri: Tonight at Noon

Adrian Henri Love Is…

Ted Hughes: The Thought-Fox

Ben Jonson: To Celia

John Keats: Ode to a Grecian Urn

John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale

Philip Larkin: Annus Mirabilis

Philip Larkin: Homage to a Government

Philip Larkin: Sad steps

Philip Larkin: The Old Fools

Andrew Marvell: To His Coy Mistress

Brian Patten: First Love

Brian Patten: Dressed

Brian Patten: That Dress, This Shirt

William Shakespeare: Sonnet 116

Debra Spencer: Day Bath

Debra Spencer: The Discovery of Sex

Alfred Tennyson: Ulysses

Dylan Thomas: Do Not Go into that Gentle Night

Dylan Thomas: Fern Hill

Dylan Thomas: In My Craft or Sullen Art

WB Yeats: Sailing to Byzantium

WB Yeats: The Second Coming

WB Yeats: The Wild Swans of Coole

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