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Famous Poems

The PoetrySoup Famous Poems section is an educational and inspirational source of famous poetry. Here you will find famous poems of our time and times past.

Famous Poem TitleLast NameFirst Name
A Daughter of EveRossettiChristina
A Nocturnal ReverieFinchAnne Kingsmill
A Red, Red RoseBurnsRobert
A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous GeneralSwiftJonathan
A Vision upon the Fairy QueenRaleighSir Walter
Adam PosedFinchAnne Kingsmill
Annabel LeePoeEdgar Allan
Because I could not stop for DeathDickinsonEmily
Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young CharmsMooreThomas
Burning Drift-WoodWhittierJohn Greenleaf
Casey At The BatThayerErnest Lawrence
Concord HymnEmersonRalph Waldo
Cradle SongBlakeWilliam
Crossing the BarTennysonLord Alfred
Death, Be Not ProudDonneJohn
Doc HillMastersEdgar Lee
Dover BeachArnoldMatthew
from On the Equality of the Sexes, Part IMurrayJudith Sargent
God's GrandeurHopkinsGerard Manley
HapHardyThomas
HélasWildeOscar
His Excuse for LovingJohnsonBen
How Do I Love Thee?BrowningElizabeth Barrett
i carry your heart with meCummings Edward Estlin (E. E.)
I dreaded that first RobinDickinsonEmily
I Hear America SingingWhitmanWalt
I Write My Mother a PoemBrownFleda
I'm nobody! Who are you?DickinsonEmily
Ichabod!WhittierJohn Greenleaf
IfKiplingRudyard
In an Artist's StudioRossettiChristina
JabberwockyCarrollLewis
Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern AbbeyWordsworthWilliam
ManHerbertGeorge
Mending WallFrostRobert
Miniver CheevyRobinsonEdwin Arlington
My Last DuchessBrowningRobert
O Captain! My Captain!WhitmanWalt
Ode on a Grecian UrnKeatsJohn
Ode on SolitudePopeAlexander
On the Idle Hill of SummerHousmanA. E.
On the Welch LanguagePhilipsKatherine
Ozymandias of EgyptShelleyPercy Bysshe
Paul Revere's RideLongfellowHenry Wadsworth
Pied BeautyHopkinsGerard Manley
RecessionalKiplingRudyard
Richard CoryRobinsonEdwin Arlington
Seth ComptonMastersEdgar Lee
She Walks in BeautyByronGeorge (Lord)
Sonnet 29ShakespeareWilliam
Sonnet 55ShakespeareWilliam
Sonnet 71ShakespeareWilliam
Still I RiseAngelouMaya
Tears, Idle TearsTennysonLord Alfred
The Author to Her BookBradstreetAnne
The Charge of the Light BrigadeTennysonLord Alfred
The Children's HourLongfellowHenry Wadsworth
The City In the SeaPoeEdgar Allan
The Darkling ThrushHardyThomas
The Fire of Drift-WoodLongfellowHenry Wadsworth
The FleaDonneJohn
The GalleryMarvellAndrew
The HourglassJohnsonBen
The Lady of ShalottTennysonLord Alfred
The Lake Isle of InnisfreeYeatsWilliam Butler
The Last LeafHolmesOliver Wendell
The Magpie Evening: A PrayerFinckeGary
The New ColossusLazarusEmma
The Owl and the Pussy-CatLearEdward
The Passionate Shepherd to His LoveMarloweChristopher
The PrologueBradstreetAnne
The RavenPoeEdgar Allan
The Road Not TakenFrostRobert
The Tables TurnedWordsworthWilliam
The Tide Rises, the Tide FallsLongfellowHenry Wadsworth
The TygerBlakeWilliam
The Walrus and the CarpenterCarrollLewis
The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their LivesBrownFleda
They Flee from MeWyattSir Thomas
To a Lady on the Death of Her HusbandWheatleyPhillis
To a MouseBurnsRobert
To AtthisSappho 
To CeliaJohnsonBen
To Find GodHerrickRobert
To His Coy MistressMarvellAndrew
To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his WorksWheatleyPhillis
To the Memory of Mr. OldhamDrydenJohn
When We Two PartedByronGeorge (Lord)
When You are OldYeatsWilliam Butler