Great Poems, Polls with Message Boards, Learn more about: Edgar Allan Poe, Longfellow, Victor Hugo, Laura E. Richards, Robert
Frost, Emily Dickinson, Marcie Hans, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ogden Nash
... and much more
Welcome to our poetry pages where you will find an interesting collection of
poems to read, vote on how much you like it, leave a message and learn
something about the poem's author. If you click on an poet's picture in
the poetry row below each poem, it should take you his or her page.
Some poems were our childhood favorites, so we decided to keep a place online to
share them with others. But we like all poetry, so if you have a favorite
poem that you would like to see on this site, feel free to send it along.
Some of the poems on this site are listed
below. You can also use one of the indexes in the lower
right hand column to narrow your selections;
visit our Lifespan Index if you wish to see how many decades a poet
lived, or find a poet on the Poet's Wall:
The Deacon's Masterpiece
by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay ...
Sonnet 18
by William Shakespeare -
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
The Prophet
by Aleksandr Pushkin -
an intense encounter with God and not too subtle transformation
When I Have Fears That I May
Cease To Be by John Keats - the poet expresses his fear
that death may rob him of his ability to fulfill his poetic destiny in a
Shakespearean sonnet.
Ma Vie by
Henri Michaux is a French poem translated into
English. Sometimes it's hard to exactly capture the meaning of a poem in another
language. We thought this translation caught the poem's essence.
Ode to My Socks
by Pablo Neruda - The very catchy title often attracts
readers to this wonderful poem, one of many paying homage to ordinary everyday things
we sometimes take for granted.
A Bird Came Down
by Emily Dickinson
is a little poem that says a lot about a bird and its behavior.
Fueled
by Marcie Hans
reminds us that we sometimes forget that nature's miracles are more awesome than man's
accomplishments.
Antonio
by Laura E. Richards
- a whimsical look at a would be suitor. Learn many interesting things
about the author.
FEATURING:
Hope is the Thing with
Feathers | Why
So Pale and Wan | Ode to Salt |
Matilda
Great Poems, Polls with Message Boards, Learn more about: Edgar Allan Poe, Longfellow, Victor Hugo, Laura E. Richards, Robert
Frost, Emily Dickinson, Marcie Hans, Robert Louis Stevenson, Ogden Nash
... and much more
