A Draught of Poetry


Favorite Poems (in no particular order)

  • Year's End by Richard Wilbur
  • The Flitting by John Clare
  • The Poison Tree by William Blake
  • Pied Beauty by G.M. Hopkins
  • The world is too much with us by William Wordsworth
  • What if a much of a which of a wind by E.E. Cummings
  • Rime of the Ancient Mariner by S. T. Coleridge
  • Psalms by David
  • Hard Night by Christian Wiman
  • The Deserted Village by Oliver Goldsmith
  • Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats
  • O Western Wind by Anonymous
  • To His Coy Mistress by Andrew Marvell
  • You, Andrew Marvell by Archibald MacLeish
  • The Charge of the Light Brigade by Lord Tennyson
  • A Coat by W.B. Yeats
  • To an Athlete Dying Young by A.E. Houseman
  • If by Rudyard Kipling
  • Second Space by Czeslaw Milosz
  • Tintern Abbey by William Wordsworth
  • This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams
  • The Tyger by William Blake
  • When I have fears that I may cease to be by John Keats
  • Sonnets by William Shakespeare
  • Vigil Strange Kept I on the Field One Night by Walt Whitman
  • Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens
  • Ozymandias by P.B. Shelley
  • Ode: Intimations on Immortality by William Wordsworth
  • Toombridge by Seamus Heaney
  • Birches by Robert Frost
  • The Ecstasy by John Donne
  • The Windhover by G.M. Hopkins
  • Armadillo by Elizabeth Bishop
  • Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
  • Loveliest of Trees by A.E. Housman
  • Adam's Curse by W.B. Yeats
  • Mowing by Robert Frost
  • The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
  • To A Mouse by Robert Burns
  • The World Is Too Much With Us by William Wordsworth
  • Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson
  • Some Trees by John Ashbery
  • The Garden by Andrew Marvell
  • Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats