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Famous Recommended Poetry - Top 20 List!
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difficult to know where to make a start! We have
therefore devised a Top 20 List of our favourite famous
poems. It was an extremely difficult task and obviously
our choice, in the end, was based on personal
preferences! We hope that this selection will provide
our readers with as much pleasure that these famous
verses have given to us. A good knowledge of these
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good grounding of the subject. Each poet has a
different style of writing making expert use of
the English language.
We have been asked on many occasions which is our
favourite poem. Impossible! Writing styles,
subject matter and even childhood memories
influence choices, so we gave up and endeavoured
to, at least, compile a list of our top twenty
famous and favourite poems! The first famous line
of the famous verse has been included to jog the
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The
following famous poems by our favourite poets and
authors are highly recommended and make fascinating
reading and are listed in no particular order:
Sonnets
from the Portuguese - 14 by the English poet Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Tiger
poem by William Blake ( Tiger Tiger burning bright in
the forests of the night )
Nightingales a
famous poem by Robert
Bridges ( Beautiful must be the mountains whence ye come )
A
Red Red Rose a famous poem by Robert Burns ( O my Luve's like a
red, red rose )
She Walks In Beauty a
famous poem
by Lord Byron ( She walks in beauty, like the night )
Rime of the
Ancient Mariner a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge ( It is an
ancient Mariner, And he stoppeth one of three )
Heart, we will
forget him a famous love poem by Emily Dickinson (Heart, we will
forget him, You and I, tonight! )
Macavity - The
Mystery Cat a famous, funny poem by T S Eliot ( Macavity's a
Mystery Cat: he's called the Hidden Paw )
Mending Wall a
famous poem by Robert
Frost ( Something there is that doesn't love a wall )
Elegy
Written in a Country Churchyard by Thomas Gray ( The Curfew tolls
the knell of parting day )
Simples a
famous poem by James Joyce ( Of cool sweet dew and
radiance mild )
The Song of Hiawatha a
great famous poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( By
the shore of Gitchie Gumee, By the shining
Big-Sea-Water, )
Madonna of the Evening Flowers a
lovely poem by Amy Lowell ( All day long I have been
working, Now I am tired. )
When I consider how my light is spent
- a famous poem by John Milton ( When I consider how
my light is spent )
The Raven a
famous poem by Edgar Allan Poe ( Once upon a midnight
dreary, while I pondered weak and weary )
Goblin Market a
famous poem by Christina Rossetti ( Morning and
evening Maids heard the goblins cry )
Sonnet 18 by
the Great, celebrated Bard, William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
( Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art
more lovely and more temperate )
Ode To The West Wind a
famous poem by Percy Bysshe Shelley ( O wild West
Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being )
The Lady of Shallot a
famous poem by Alfred Lord Tennyson ( On either
side the river lie long fields of barley and of rye )
Daffodils
- I wandered lonely as a cloud a famous poem by William Wordsworth
( I wandered lonely as a cloud that floats on high
o'er vales and hills )
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