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Showing posts with label favorite poems. Show all posts
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Friday, May 21, 2010

A Few of My Favorite Poems (A List)


A Song. Joseph Brodsky.

A Woman Waits For Me. Walt Whitman.

Christ Climbed Down. Lawrence Ferlinghetti.

Daddy. Sylvia Plath.

Death to Van Gogh’s Ear! Allen Ginsberg.

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night. Dylan Thomas.

Dover Beach. Matthew Arnold.

Gnostic Gato. Phedra Johnson.

He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven. William Butler Yeats.

Impossible to Tell. Robert Pinsky.

In the Naked Bed, in Plato’s Cave. Delmore Schwartz.

Jehovah buried, Satan dead. e. e. cummings.

Lady Lazarus. Sylvia Plath.

Lucifer in Starlight. George Meredith.

My Father and the Figtree. Naomi Shihab Nye.

My Makeup. Rochelle Kraut.

Nothing Gold Can Stay. Robert Frost.

Phenomenal Woman. Maya Angelou.

She Walks In Beauty. George Gordon, Lord Byron.

Sonnet XXX. Edna St. Vincent Millay.

So We’re Go No More A-Rovin’. George Gordon, Lord Byron.

Still I Rise. Maya Angelou.

’Tis the Voice of the Lobster. Lewis Carroll.

The Abortion. Anne Sexton.

The Goblin Market. Christina Rossetti.

The Raven. Edgar Allan Poe.

The Second Coming. William Butler Yeats.

To You. Walt Whitman.

Walking to Work. Ted Kooser.

Warning. Jenny Joseph.

What Lips My Lips Have Kissed, and Where, and Why. Edna St. Vincent Millay.