Best Poems of All Time
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1.
Iliad by Homer
110 points - added 12 years ago by NickDrake -
2.
Divine Comedy by Dante
95 points - added 12 years ago by NickDrake -
3.
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
85 points - added 12 years ago by NickDrake -
4.
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost poem that should be read at least once by everyone.
77 points - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
5.
Faust by Goethe
56 points - added 12 years ago by NickDrake -
6.
The Raven
56 points - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
7.
A Girl
This poem is one of the best of all time and by Ezra Pound.
42 points - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
8.
IF ,RUDYYARD KIPLING
41 points - added 14 years ago by guest - 1 comment
Comments:
A poem very appropriate for our times
Added 14 years ago by guest, 1 point
9.
The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock
29 points - added 14 years ago by guest -
10.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
27 points - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
11.
Tabacaria
24 points - added 14 years ago by guest -
12.
A Dream within a Dream
Edgar Allan Poe.
22 points - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
13.
Life Is Fine
21 points - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
14.
The Canterbury Tales
A middle english medieval poem by Geoffrey Chaucer
10 points - added 8 years ago by guest -
15.
To His Coy Mistress
A metaphysical poem by Andrew Marvell
10 points - added 8 years ago by guest -
16.
Shall I Compare thee to a Summer's day
10 points - added 8 years ago by guest - 1 comment
Comments:
Shakespeare's greatest sonnet
Added 8 years ago by guest, 0 points
17.
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
10 points - added 8 years ago by guest - 1 comment
Comments:
Most meaningful 14 lines of all time
Added 8 years ago by guest, 1 point
18.
Odyssey by Homer
10 points - added 8 years ago by guest -
19.
Paradise Lost by John Milton
10 points - added 8 years ago by guest -
20.
All The World's A Stage
9 points - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
21.
To You
9 points - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
22.
Phenomenal Woman
Maya Angelou, one of the best poems about women of all time.
9 points - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
23.
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Shel Silverstein poem that is popular with kids and adults alike.
8 points - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
24.
Walking Around
4 points - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
25.
Funeral Blues
3 points - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
26.
If Those I Loved Were Lost
2 points - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
27.
The Mother
2 points - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
28.
Still I Rise
2 points - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
29.
Daddy
1 point - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
30.
Digging
1 point - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
31.
I'm Not Yours
1 point - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
32.
Desiderata
Just read it
0 points - added 10 years ago by guest -
33.
The Broken Heart
-2 points - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
34.
Romance
-2 points - added 15 years ago by BrendaKaye -
35.
Rabindranath Tagore--
Tagore's poem "where the mind is without fear" is perhaps the most meaningful and profound poem ever written. Tagore's poem proclaims both the need for international peace and the need for a non chauvinistic model of nationalism.
-11 points - added 14 years ago by guest -
36.
Rabindranath Tagore
Tagore's poem "Gitanjali" is perhaps the greatest poem ever written. Tagore wrote thousands of beautiful poems that are outstanding in their intellectual depth.
-14 points - added 14 years ago by guest -
37.
The Golden Boat by Rabindranath Tagore.
The Golden Boat is one of the greatest poetry book ever written due to the immeasurable intellectual depth underneath the apparent or surface meaning of the poems in the book.
-15 points - added 14 years ago by guest -
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