Plus examples of their greatest poems.
List Compiled and Edited By: Jacqueline W.
List Begun: 2022-12-30
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Edgar Allan Poe
Emily Dickinson
1. Samuel Taylor Coleridge: 1772-1834
• The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
• Kubla Khan
• Frost at Midnight
2. Edgar Allan Poe: 1809-1849
• The Raven
• Annabel Lee
• A Dream Within a Dream
3. Robert Frost: 1874-1963
• Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
• The Road Not Taken
• Nothing Gold Can Stay
4. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: 18078-1882
• Wreck of the Hesperus
• Paul Revere's Ride
• The Song of Hiawatha
5. William Shakespeare: 1564-1616
• Sonnet 18
• Sonnet 71
• Sonnet 116
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
7. Maya Angelou: 1928- 2014
• Still I Rise
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
• Touched by an Angel
8. Rudyard Kipling: 1865-1936
• If
• The Way Through the Woods
9. William Blake: 1757-1827
• The Tyger
• Loves Secret
10. Emily Dickinson: 1830-1886
• Because I Could Not Stop for Death
• I'm Nobody! Who are You?
• How Far is It to Heaven?
11. Geoffrey Chaucer: 1340's-1400
• The Canterbury Tales
• Troilus and Criseyde
12. John Donne: 1572-1631
• Death Be Not Proud
• For Whom the Bell Tolls
• The Flea
13. Alfred Noyes: 1880-1958
• The Highwayman
• The Moon is Up
14. Dylan Thomas: 1914-1953
• Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night
• I See the Boys of Summer
15. Elizabeth Barrett Browning: 1806-1861
• How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)
• The Cry of the Children
16. Alfred Lord Tennyson: 1809-1892
• In Memoriam
• The Lady of Shallot
• The Charge of the Light Brigade
• Idylls of the King
17. Lord Byron : 1788-1824
• She Walks in Beauty
• The Dream
18. Christina Rossetti: 1830-1894
• When I am Dead My Dearest
• The Goblin Market
• Remember
19. Robert Service: 1874-1958
• The Cremation of Sam McGee
• It is Later Than You Think
20. Rumi : 1207-1273
• Because I Cannot Sleep
• The Guest House
• All Through Eternity
21. Lauren Ferlinghetti: 1919-2021
• Constantly Risking Absurdity
• Bird with Two Right Wings
22. Mary Oliver: 1935-2019
• The Swan
• When Death Comes
• The Journey
23. Walt Whitman: 1819-1892
• O Captian! My Captain!
• Song of Myself
• I Sing the Body Electric
24. Emma Lazarus: 1849-1887
• The New Colossus
• A Masque of Venice
25. Homer: 8th Century BC
• The Iliad
• The Odyssey
26. Edmund Spencer: 1552-1599
• The Faerie Queene
• One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon the Strand
27. Lewis Carroll: 1832-1898
• The Walrus and the Carpenter
• The Hunting of the Snark
• The Jabberwocky
28. Robert Browning: 1812-1889
• My Last Duchess
• Fra Lippo Lippi
• Love Among the Ruins
29. John Keats: 1795-1821
• Ode to a Nightingale
• Ode on a Grecian Urn
30. Amanda Gorman: 1998-
• The Hill We Climb
• Earthrise
• The Miracle of Morning
31. Shel Siverstein: 1930-1999
• Where the Sidewalk Ends
• A Boy Named Sue
32. Langston Hughes: 1901-1967
• Dream Deferred
• Mother to Son
• I, Too
33. Carl Sandburg: 1878-1967
• The Fog
• Chicago
34. Sherman Alexie: 1966-
• Grief Calls Us to the Things of this World
• Good Hair
• Terminal Nostalgia
35. Rod McKuen: 1933-2015
• The Need
• A Cat Named Sloopy
36. Anne Bradstreet: 1612-1672
• To My Dear and Loving Husband
• For Deliverance From a Fever
37. John Greenleaf Whittier: 1807-1892
• Barbara Fritchie
• Ichabod
38. Percy Bysshe Shelley: 1792-1822
• To a Skylark
• Ozymandias
39. William Butler Yeats: 1865-1939
• When You Are Old
• All Souls Night
40. Matsuo Basho: 1644-1694
• A Caterpillar
• The Old Pond
• From Time to Time
41. Thomas Moore: 1779-1852
• Drink to Her
• Enigma
42. Robert Burns: 1759-1796
• To A Mouse
• A Red
• Red Rose
• Tam o'Shanter
43. Ralph Waldo Emerson: 1803-1882
• Give All to Love
• Concord Hymn
44. Andrew Marvell: 1621-1678
• To HIs Coy Mistress
• A Dialogue Between the Soul and Body
• The Death of Cromwell
45. Omar Khayyam: 1048-1131
• The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
• Now the New Year
46. James Kavanaugh: 1928-2009
• There are Men too Gentle to Live Among Wolves
• Will You Be My Friend?
47. Theodore Roethke: 1908-1963
• The Waking
• The Bat
• The Sloth
48. Wendell Berry: 1934-
• The Peace of Wild Things
• I Go Among Trees and Sit Still
• How to Be a Poet
49. Pablo Neruda: 1904-1973
• I Do Not Love You Except Because I Love You
• Always
50. Anne Sexton: 1928-1974
• Her Kind
• Mercy Street