Poems I Particularly Like
I recently started reading poetry again. Though I just finished a book of poems, I did read through them rather quickly so I'm sure there are many more that deserve further study (many of the poems in that book are quite complex). But for now, here are poems I've come across that I particularly like. I'll update this list from time to time. I'd love to hear your assessments on these and other poems that have particularly touched you.
For authors with multiple poems listed, I have separated them by semi-colon.
You can probably do a web search to find the text for most of these (sorry if I've botched some of the titles):
- Abraham Cowley: Beauty
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson: I Envy Not In Any Moods; Ulysses
- Ben Jonson: It Is Not Growing Like a Tree
- Edmund Spenser: One Day I Wrote Her Name
- George Herbert: Love (III)
- George Santayana: A Minuet On Reaching the Age Of Fifty
- Henry Vaughan: The Retreat; They Are All Gone Into the World Of Light
- John Donne: A Lecture Upon the Shadow; Batter My Heart; Death, Be Not Proud; If Poisonous Minerals
- John Milton: On His Deceased Wife
- Julia Ward Howe: Battle Hymn of the Republic
- Ogden Nash: The Sea-Gull [ok, I never said they had to be deep!]; The Turtle [ditto!]
- Oliver Wendell Holmes: The Chambered Nautilus
- Percy Bysshe Shelley: Ozymandias
- Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken
- Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Rime of the Ancient Mariner
- Sir Edward Dyer: My Mind To Me a Kingdom Is
- Sir Philip Sidney: Desire; Loving in Truth
- Sir Walter Raleigh: Even Such is Time; The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd
- Wilfred Owen: Arms and the Boy
- William Cartwright: No Platonic Love
- William Shakespeare: Look In Thy Glass; The Expense of Spirit; The Marriage of True Minds
- William Wordsworth: Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
