Best Best Known Poems
Below are the all-time best Best Known poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of best known poems written by PoetrySoup members
Young Brilliant Poet That Left Us Far, Far Too Soon Second Poet In Dedication SeriesNote:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percy_Bysshe_Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley, Born 4 August 1792
Horsham, Sussex, England[1]
Died , 8 July 1822 (aged 29)
Gulf of La Spezia, Kingdom of Sardinia (now Italy)
Occupation Poet, dramatist,...
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Categories:
best known, appreciation, art, assonance, beautiful,
Form:
Rhyme
Nevermore Will Raven Return*Note: A 60-year annual tradition that involved a mysterious visitor leaving three
roses at the grave of writer Edgar Allan Poe on the anniversary...
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Categories:
best known, mysteryhouse, loss, birthday, grave,
Form:
Narrative
What Easter Means To MeI followed you from Galilee
To that sad day on Calvary
Of love You spoke
New hope You...
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Categories:
best known, faith, holidayheart, easter, heart,
Form:
Rhyme
The Garden"I come to the garden alone"
He is here in this quiet place
"He speaks and the sound of His voice"
Offers peace, hope in my space
"While the...
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Categories:
best known, faith,
Form:
Quatern
Children of the ValleysAnd as the hills yonder
Turned red from sunset rays
As darkness engulfed the valley
And the sweet sounds of birds
Rent the cool evening air
Our cows and...
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Categories:
best known, africa, children, poverty,
Form:
Free verse
Belated Elegy and Eulogy For Sir Abdul KalamProfessor Abdul Kalam the luminous brilliant star
I pay homage to you from here in Dar
Great brill scientist in the field of Aerospace
A noble man with...
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Categories:
best known, eulogy,
Form:
Elegy
Chaucer Translation: Merciless BeautyMerciles Beaute ("Merciless Beauty")
by Geoffrey Chaucer
loose translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Your eyes slay me suddenly;
their beauty I cannot sustain,
they wound me so, through my heart...
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Categories:
best known, beauty, heart, relationship, romance,
Form:
Roundel
Models of Reality In ReligionThe “existence of God” can’t be proven by Science.
Since man’s reasoning seems to run God off the rails.
There’s the alternate view that “the world just...
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Categories:
best known, god, universe, , atheist,
Form:
Rhyme
Defining RedRed: A Definition
Primary and indispensable.
Intuitively felt as warm, never cold.
Romantic in its nature with body and depth.
Wafting sentience from a glass,
Willing drama to...
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Categories:
best known, red,
Form:
Free verse
Robert Burns Translation: Comin Thro the RyeComin Thro the Rye
by Robert Burns
modern English translation/interpretation by Michael R. Burch
Oh, Jenny's all wet, poor body,
Jenny's seldom dry;
She's draggin' all her petticoats
Comin' through...
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Categories:
best known, body, desire, kiss, love,
Form:
Verse
Africa Saves Her DaughterAfrica Kills Her Sun in Ken Saro-Wiwa short story
So far the greatest short story i've ever read
Where the blackest pen lives
With the blackest ink...
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Categories:
best known, africa, strength, woman, women,
Form:
Epic
Categories:
best known, art, love,
Form:
Concrete
Gunsynd - the Goondiwindi GreyHe was out of Woodie Wonder by the stallion Sunset Hue,
A freak thought breeding purists, who would surely end up glue.
For greys were...
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Categories:
best known, animals, history, sports, old,
Form:
Ballad
Who Am IThis may seem lame.
Let’s make it a game.
I’ll give you a clue.
You try to guess who.
Proceeding my entrance by just a short while,
Is often...
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Categories:
best known, humor, riddle, spoken word,
Form:
Other
End of the Bowden ReignFrom Deion Sanders to Warrick Dunn
Bobby Bowden coached some of the best
Highly regarded by team and staff
The FSU coach withstood each test
With two national championships
And...
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Categories:
best known, angst, sports
Form:
Quatrain