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Poems Worth Reading

This is a list of individual poems—no, not entire poetry books, good lord—that are definitely, absolutely, crucially worth your time.
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"The Hollow Men" by T. S. Eliot
"The Hollow Men" by T. S. Eliot
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The Aeneid (Virgil)
The Aeneid
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Virgil
Annabel Lee
Annabel Lee
3
As Kingfishers Catch Fire (Gerard Manley Hopkins)
As Kingfishers Catch Fire
4
Gerard Manley Hopkins
B (Sarah Kay)
B
5
Sarah Kay
Because I Could Not Stop for Death (Emily Dickinson)
Because I Could Not Stop for Death (Emily Dickinson)
6
The Charge of the Light Brigade (Lord Alfred Tennyson)
The Charge of the Light Brigade
7
Lord Alfred Tennyson
The Cremation of Sam McGee (Robert W. Service)
The Cremation of Sam McGee
8
Robert W. Service
Death Be Not Proud
Death Be Not Proud
9
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night (Dylan Thomas)
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
10
Dylan Thomas
Dover Beach (Mathew Arnold)
Dover Beach
11
Mathew Arnold
Dulce Et Decorum Est (Wilfred Owen)
Dulce Et Decorum Est
12
Wilfred Owen
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard (Thomas Gray)
Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
13
Thomas Gray
The Epic of Gilgamesh (N.K. Sandars Translator)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
14
N.K. Sandars Translator
The Faerie Queene (Edmund Spenser)
The Faerie Queene
15
Edmund Spenser
Fat Bottom Girl Said What (Warsan Shire)
Fat Bottom Girl Said What
16
Warsan Shire
Four Quartets
Four Quartets
17
Funeral Blues
Funeral Blues
18
Goblin Market (Christina Rossetti)
Goblin Market
19
Christina Rossetti
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and Other Poems You Half-Remember From School (Ana Sampson)
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud and Other Poems You Half-Remember From School
20
Ana Sampson
If (Rudyard Kipling)
If
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Rudyard Kipling
The Iliad (Homer)
The Iliad
22
Homer
In Memoriam
In Memoriam
23
Inferno (Dante)
Inferno
24
Dante
Invictus
Invictus
25
Jabberwocky
Jabberwocky
26
Kubla Khan (Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Kubla Khan
27
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Leaves of Grass (Walt Whitman)
Leaves of Grass
28
Walt Whitman
Locksley Hall (Alfred, Lord Tennyson)
Locksley Hall
29
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
30
My Last Duchess (Robert Browning)
My Last Duchess
31
Robert Browning
The Negro Speaks of Rivers (Langston Hughes)
The Negro Speaks of Rivers
32
Langston Hughes
The New Colossus (Emma Lazarus)
The New Colossus
33
Emma Lazarus
O Captain! My Captain! (WALT WHITMAN)
O Captain! My Captain!
34
WALT WHITMAN
Ode on a Grecian Urn (John Keats)
Ode on a Grecian Urn
35
John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale
Ode to a Nightingale
36
The Odyssey (Homer)
The Odyssey
37
Homer
On His Blindness (John Milton)
On His Blindness
38
John Milton
Ozymandias
Ozymandias
39
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained (John Milton)
Paradise Lost and Paradise Regained
40
John Milton
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