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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 Happiness Carl Sandburg
20 Love and Friendship Emily Brontë
21 Always Pablo Neruda
22 Justice Langston Hughes
23 IN THE FOREST Oscar Wilde
24 Now you see me Muhammad Ali
25 From time to time Matsuo Basho
26 I Am Not Yours Sara Teasdale
27 The Door in the Dark Robert Frost
28 So I Say GOODBYE Tupac Shakur
29 Friendship Alexander Pushkin
30 A Silly Poem Spike Milligan
31 Before you knew you owned it Alice Walker
32 Words Sylvia Plath
33 Passing Time Maya Angelou
34 The Sea Is History Derek Walcott
35 Fire and Ice Robert Frost
36 A young heart with an old soul Tupac Shakur
37 Haiku Jack Kerouac
38 The Hourglass Ben Jonson
39 silence Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
40 Her Anxiety William Butler Yeats
41 Gratitude -- is not the mention Emily Dickinson
42 Before Sleep Catherine Anderson
43 Love Sarah Fuller Flower Adams
44 for a rainy day D A Levy
45 Dream Variations Langston Hughes
46 Sacrifice Ralph Waldo Emerson
47 Forgotten Language Shel Silverstein
48 i shall imagine life Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
49 A Star Mother Goose
50 Love is more thicker than forget Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
51 There live a great man named Joe Muhammad Ali
52 Answers Elizabeth Jennings
53 Fall leaves fall Emily Brontë
54 This Consciousness that is aware Emily Dickinson
55 An old silent pond.. Matsuo Basho
56 To the Moon Percy Bysshe Shelley
57 Ambition Over Adversity Tupac Shakur
58 Hope is the thing with feathers Emily Dickinson
59 Quiet Girl Langston Hughes
60 Counting Small-boned Bodies Robert Bly
61 Talent Carol Ann Duffy
62 Cake Roger McGough
63 How happy I was if I could forget Emily Dickinson
64 Beautiful City Alfred Lord Tennyson
65 Autumn moonlight Matsuo Basho
66 The Crazy Woman Gwendolyn Brooks
67 Me — wheee! Muhammad Ali
68 You Came, Too Nikki Giovanni
69 Flames Billy Collins
70 Days Ralph Waldo Emerson
71 First winter rain Matsuo Basho
72 Autumn Fires Robert Louis Stevenson
73 Beautiful Women Walt Whitman
74 Never for Society Emily Dickinson
75 I Too Sing America Langston Hughes
76 November Thomas Hood
77 He took a few cups of love Muhammad Ali
78 Four-Letter Word James A Emanuel
79 Toward those short trees Masaoka Shiki
80 Gratitude To The Unknown Instructors William Butler Yeats
81 Longing Sara Teasdale
82 The Old Men Used to Sing Alice Walker
83 Under the Harvest Moon Carl Sandburg
84 Daybreak John Donne
85 To Jennie Mark Twain
86 In spring rain Kobayashi Issa
87 The New Dog Linda Pastan
88 The Street Octavio Paz
89 Mrs Moon Roger McGough
90 Haiku Jack Kerouac
91 A Conceit Maya Angelou
92 Autumn Valentine Dorothy Parker
93 Can You See the Pride in the Panther Tupac Shakur
94 We Real Cool Gwendolyn Brooks
95 Heaven is what I cannot reach! Emily Dickinson
96 Odysseus Decision Louise Gluck
97 Haiku Jack Kerouac
98 Young Niggas Tupac Shakur
99 These Strangers in a foreign World Emily Dickinson
100 Discovery Richard Brautigan

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