Short Poetry by Popular Famous Poets

	Poet
1	William Wordsworth
2	William Shakespeare
3	Oscar Wilde
4	Emily Dickinson
5	Maya Angelou
6	Rabindranath Tagore
7	Robert Frost
8	Langston Hughes
9	Walt Whitman
10	Shel Silverstein
11	William Blake
12	Sylvia Plath
13	Pablo Neruda
14	Alfred Lord Tennyson
15	William Butler Yeats
16	Rudyard Kipling
17	Tupac Shakur
18	Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
19	Charles Bukowski
20	Muhammad Ali
21	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
22	Sarojini Naidu
23	Sandra Cisneros
24	Alice Walker
25	Billy Collins
26	Christina Rossetti
27	Carol Ann Duffy
28	Edgar Allan Poe
29	John Donne
30	Ralph Waldo Emerson
31	Nikki Giovanni
32	Raymond Carver
33	John Keats
34	Ogden Nash
35	Lewis Carroll
36	Thomas Hardy
37	Mark Twain
38	Spike Milligan
39	Carl Sandburg
40	Anne Sexton
41	Percy Bysshe Shelley
42	Alexander Pushkin
43	Thunchaththu Ramanujan Ezhuthachan
44	Henry David Thoreau
45	Elizabeth Barrett Browning
46	Roger McGough
47	Sara Teasdale
48	Victor Hugo
49	George (Lord) Byron
50	Gary Soto

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