Because this month is National Poetry Month I decided that my “40” post should be full of poems I love (see my other posts in the series.) Today is the last day of the month, so if you have squeezed any poetry in this month here’s your opportunity. Poems are listed in the order I thought of them, and links go to Poetry Foundation or Poets.org if available.
Do you have a poem you love that’s not on the list? Please drop me a comment 💬 to let me know about it. I love discovering new poetry.
40 Great Poems
- Sonnets from the Portuguese 1
- Sonnets from the Portuguese 14
- The Tyger
- Ozymandias
- The Magic Mountain
- Grief
- Dreams
- Dream Dust
- Dust and Rainbows
- Blunt (included in Say Uncle)
- Deferred Silence (included in Say Uncle)
- Blast
- Robot Haikus (Not one poem but a very fun book of poems.)
- Darkness
- Jabberwocky
- Kubla Khan
- Her Strong Enchantments Failing by A E Housman
- The Bells
- A Dream Within a Dream
- The Conqueror Worm
- Love Not Me by Annomyous
- Hamlet’s Soliloquy
- Beat! Beat! Drums!
- Death, Be Not Proud
- A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
- She Walks in Beauty
- Because I Could Not Stop for Death
- The Intro to the Pendragon Cycle (the same poem is in the opening of each book.)
- There is no Frigate like a Book
- Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers by Adrienne Rich
- The Red Wheelbarrow
- This is Just to Say
- The Falling Flower by Arakida Moritake
- Rain by Emanuel di Pasquale
- Life by Grace Treasone
- Cat
- Haiku in general (this is a great collection)
- My Little Dreams
- The Bookshelf of the God of Infinite Space
- The Road Goes Ever On