Poems

100 Best-Loved Poems

See also Poems for Older Kids

Ambrose Bierce
- Decalogue
William Blake
- And Did Those Feet In Ancient Times
- The Lamb
- London
- The Sick Rose
- The Tiger
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Ways
- To Flush, My Dog
Robert Browning
- My Last Duchess
Robert Burns
- A Red, Red Rose
- To A Mouse
George Gordon (Lord) Byron
- The Destruction Of Sennacherib
- Epitaph to a Dog
- She Walks In Beauty
- So, We’ll Go No More a Roving
Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson)
- Jabberwocky
- The Walrus and the Carpenter
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- Kubla Khan
e e cummings
- anyone lived in a pretty how town
Emily Dickinson
- The Chariot
- Dear March, Come In!
- I’m Nobody! Who Are You?
- This Is My Letter To The World
John Donne
- The Good-morrow
- Holy Sonnet: 10
James T. Fields
- The Tempest
Francis Miles Finch
- The Blue and the Gray
Robert Frost
- The Road Not Taken
- Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening
Thomas Gray
- In A Country Churchyard
- Ode On The Death Of A Favourite Cat
Thomas Hardy
- The Darkling Thrush
William Ernest Henley
- Invictus
Robert Herrick
- To The Virgins, To Make Much Of Time
- Upon Julia’s Clothes
Oliver Wendell Holmes
- The Chambered Nautilus
- Old Ironsides
Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Pied Beauty
- Spring and Fall
Alfred Edward Housman
- To An Athlete Dying Young
James Henry Leigh Hunt
- Abou Ben Adhem
- Jenny Kissed Me
James Weldon Johnson
- Lift Every Voice and Sing
Ben Jonson
- On My First Son
- Song: To Celia
John Keats
- La Belle Dame Sans Merci
- Ode On A Grecian Urn
- Ode To A Nightingale
- On First Looking Into Chapman’s Homer
- His Last Sonnet
Francis Scott Key
- The Star-Spangled Banner
Rudyard Kipling
- Gunga Din
- If
Walter Savage Landor
- On His Seventy-Fifth Birthday
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- The Children’s Hour
- Hiawatha’s Childhood
- The Village Blacksmith
Richard Lovelace
- To Lucasta, [on] Going To The Wars
Christopher Marlowe
- The Passionate Shepherd To His Love
Herman Melville
- Shiloh
George Meredith
- Lucifer In Starlight
Edna St. Vincent Millay
- First Fig
John Milton
- Sonnet: 19. On His Blindness
- Sonnet: 23. On His Deceased Wife
Ogden Nash
- So That’s Who I Remind Me Of
Wilfred Owen
- Anthem For Doomed Youth
Li Po
- The River-merchant’s Wife: A Letter
Edgar Allan Poe
- Annabel Lee
- The Raven
- To Helen
Edwin Arlington Robinson
- Miniver Cheevy
- Richard Cory
Christina Georgina Rossetti
- A Birthday
Carl Sandburg
- Chicago
- Fog
William Shakespeare
- Sonnet: 18 (Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?)
- Sonnet: 73 (That time of year thou mayst in me behold)
- Sonnet: 94 (They that have power to hurt and will do none)
- Sonnet: 116 (Let me not to the marriage of true minds)
Percy Bysshe Shelley
- Ode To The West Wind
- Ozymandias
Solomon
- To Everything There Is A Season (Ecclesiastes 3:1-8)
Robert Louis Stevenson
- Looking Forward
- Requiem
John G. Saxe
- The Blind Men and the Elephant
Alfred Tennyson
- The Charge Of The Light Brigade
- Crossing The Bar
Ernest Thayer
- Casey at the Bat
Unknown
- Drive the Cold Winter Away
- Judged by the Company One Keeps
- Success
Henry Vaughan
- The Retreat
Edmund Waller
- Song
Walt Whitman
- I Hear America Singing
- A Noiseless Patient Spider
- O Captain! My Captain!
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Solitude
- Thanksgiving
William Carlos Williams
- The Red Wheelbarrow
William Wordsworth
- Composed Upon Westminster Bridge
- Daffodils
Elinor Wylie
- The Eagle and the Mole
William Butler Yeats
- The Lake Isle Of Innisfree
- The Second Coming
- When You Are Old