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Top 100 Famous Short Poems - All-Time Best Short Poems

Top 100 Famous Short Poems All-Time. These are the 100 all-time best and most popular short poems written by famous poets.

RankFamous PoemPoet
1 I'm nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson
2 The Power of a Smile Tupac Shakur
3 The Lesson Maya Angelou
4 a total stranger one black day Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
5 Life Through My Eyes Tupac Shakur
6 I float like a butterfly, sting like a bee Muhammad Ali
7 The Rose that Grew from Concrete Tupac Shakur
8 In the twilight rain Matsuo Basho
9 How far is it to Heaven? Emily Dickinson
10 Friend Rabindranath Tagore
11 I had no time to hate because Emily Dickinson
12 We Alone Alice Walker
13 Loves Secret William Blake
14 A Fairy Song William Shakespeare
15 Still Here Langston Hughes
16 Love Is Nikki Giovanni
17 Dream Deferred Langston Hughes
18 When You Come Maya Angelou
19 A Daughter of Eve Christina Rossetti
20 Happiness Carl Sandburg
21 Love and Friendship Emily Brontë
22 Always Pablo Neruda
23 Justice Langston Hughes
24 In The Forest Oscar Wilde
25 Now you see me Muhammad Ali
26 From time to time Matsuo Basho
27 I Am Not Yours Sara Teasdale
28 The Door in the Dark Robert Frost
29 So I Say GOODBYE Tupac Shakur
30 Friendship Alexander Pushkin
31 A Silly Poem Spike Milligan
32 Before you knew you owned it Alice Walker
33 Words Sylvia Plath
34 Passing Time Maya Angelou
35 Fire and Ice Robert Frost
36 A young heart with an old soul Tupac Shakur
37 The Sea Is History Derek Walcott
38 Haiku Jack Kerouac
39 The Hourglass Ben Jonson
40 silence Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
41 Her Anxiety William Butler Yeats
42 Gratitude -- is not the mention Emily Dickinson
43 Before Sleep Catherine Anderson
44 Love Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
45 for a rainy day D A Levy
46 Dream Variations Langston Hughes
47 Forgotten Language Shel Silverstein
48 Sacrifice Ralph Waldo Emerson
49 i shall imagine life Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
50 A Star Mother Goose
51 Love is more thicker than forget Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
52 There live a great man named Joe Muhammad Ali
53 Answers Elizabeth Jennings
54 Fall leaves fall Emily Brontë
55 This Consciousness that is aware Emily Dickinson
56 An old silent pond.. Matsuo Basho
57 Ambition Over Adversity Tupac Shakur
58 To the Moon Percy Bysshe Shelley
59 Hope is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson
60 Counting Small-boned Bodies Robert Bly
61 Quiet Girl Langston Hughes
62 I Loved You Alexander Pushkin
63 Talent Carol Ann Duffy
64 Cake Roger McGough
65 Little Things Marion Strobel
66 I, Lover Elsa Gidlow
67 How happy I was if I could forget Emily Dickinson
68 Expect Nothing Alice Walker
69 Beautiful City Alfred Lord Tennyson
70 Autumn moonlight Matsuo Basho
71 The Crazy Woman Gwendolyn Brooks
72 Wild Nights -- Wild Nights! Emily Dickinson
73 Me — wheee! Muhammad Ali
74 You Came, Too Nikki Giovanni
75 Love Song Rainer Maria Rilke
76 Why I Love Thee? Sadakichi Hartmann
77 Flames Billy Collins
78 Love's Acolyte Elsa Gidlow
79 Poem—to The Black Beloved Langston Hughes
80 This Much And More Djuna Barnes
81 Let Thine Eyes Whisper Ameen Rihani
82 Days Ralph Waldo Emerson
83 First winter rain Matsuo Basho
84 Autumn Fires Robert Louis Stevenson
85 Beautiful Women Walt Whitman
86 Never for Society Emily Dickinson
87 Amores (II) Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
88 He took a few cups of love Muhammad Ali
89 I Too Sing America Langston Hughes
90 [the Flowers And My Love,] Ono no Komachi
91 Aedh Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven William Butler Yeats
92 Your Hands Angelina Weld Grimke
93 November Thomas Hood
94 Toward those short trees Masaoka Shiki
95 Four-Letter Word James A Emanuel
96 Gratitude To The Unknown Instructors William Butler Yeats
97 The Old Men Used to Sing Alice Walker
98 My Loves Langston Hughes
99 Longing Sara Teasdale
100 Amores (Iii) Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings

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