Most Famous Poets of All Time
This chart contains a list of 25 of the most famous poets of all time along with their most well-known poems.
Famous Poet |
Famous Poem |
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Sir Walter Raleigh English (1552-1618) |
The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd If all the world and love were young, And truth in every shepherd's tongue, These pretty pleasures might me move To live with thee and be thy love ... The Nymph's Reply to the Shepherd (full poem) |
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William Shakespeare English (1564-1616) |
Sonnet No. 18 Shall I compare thee to a Summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And Summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sonnet No. 18 (full poem) |
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Christopher Marlowe English (1564-1593) |
The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Come live with me and be my love, And we will all the pleasures prove That valleys, groves, hills, and fields, Woods, or steepy mountain yields. The Passionate Shepherd to His Love (full poem) |
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Robert Burns Scottish (1759-1796) |
A Red, Red Rose O my love's like a red, red rose That's newly sprung in June; O my love's like the melody That's sweetly played in tune ... A Red, Red Rose (full poem) |
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William Blake English (1757-1827) |
The Tyger Tyger! Tyger! burning bright In the forests of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could frame thy fearful symmetry? ... The Tyger (full poem) |
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William Wordsworth English (1770-1850) |
Daffodils I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils ... Daffodils (full poem) |
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Percy Bysshe Shelley English (1792-1822) |
Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them on the sand, Half sunk, a shatter'd visage lies, whose frown ... Ozymandias (full poem) |
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning English (1806-1861) |
Sonnet No. 43 How do I love thee? Let me count the ways. I love thee to the depth and breadth and height My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace ... Sonnet No. 43 (full poem) |
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow American (1807-1882) |
Paul Revere's Ride Listen my children and you shall hear Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere, On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-five; Hardly a man is now alive Who remembers that famous day and year ... Paul Revere's Ride (full poem) |
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Edgar Allan Poe American (1809-1849) |
The Raven Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. ''Tis some visitor,' I muttered, 'tapping at my chamber door -- Only this, and nothing more.' ... The Raven (full poem) |
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Robert Browning English (1812-1889) husband of Elizabeth Barrett Browning (above) |
You'll love me yet and I can tarry You'll love me yet and I can tarry Your love's protracted growing: June reared that bunch of flowers you carry From seeds of April's sowing ... You'll love me yet and I can tarry (full poem) |
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Walt Whitman American (1819-1892) |
O Captain! My Captain! O Captain my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weathered every rack, the prize we sought is won, The port is near, the bells I hear, the people all exulting, While follow eyes the steady keel, the vessel grim and daring ... O Captain! My Captain! (full poem) |
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Lewis Carroll (Charles Lutwidge Dodgson) English (1832-1898) |
Jabberwocky Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe: All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe ... Jabberwocky (full poem) |
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Emily Dickinson American (1830-1886) |
A word is dead A word is dead When it is said, Some say. I say it just Begins to live That day. |
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Robert Louis Stevenson Scottish (1850-1994) |
My Shadow I have a little shadow that goes in and out with me, And what can be the use of him is more than I can see. He is very, very like me from the heels up to the head; And I see him jump before me, when I jump into my bed ... My Shadow (full poem) |
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A. E. Housman (Alfred Edward Housman) English (1859-1936) |
When I was one-and-twenty When I was one-and-twenty I heard a wise man say, 'Give crowns and pounds and guineas But not your heart away ... When I was one-and-twenty (full poem) |
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Edwin Arlington Robinson American (1869-1935) |
Richard Cory Whenever Richard Cory went down town, We people on the pavement looked at him: He was a gentleman from sole to crown, Clean favored, and imperially slim ... Richard Cory (full poem) |
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John McCrae Canadian (1872-1918) |
In Flanders Fields In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below ... In Flanders Fields (full poem) |
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Robert Frost American (1874-1963) |
The Road Not Taken Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth ... The Road Not Taken (full poem) |
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Carl Sandburg American (1878-1967) |
The Fog The fog comes on little cat feet. It sits looking over harbor and city on silent haunches and then moves on. |
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Joyce Kilmer American (1886-1918) |
Trees I think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. ... Trees (full poem) |
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T. S. Eliot (Thomas Stearns Eliot) English (1888-1965) |
The Hollow Men We are the hollow men We are the stuffed men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! ... The Hollow Men (full poem) |
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e. e. cummings (Edward Estlin Cummings) American (1894-1962) |
anyone lived in a pretty how town anyone lived in a pretty how town (with up so floating many bells down) spring summer autumn winter he sang his didn't he danced his did ... anyone lived in a pretty how town (full poem) |
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Langston Hughes American (1902-1967) |
A Dream Deferred What happens to a dream deferred? Does it dry up Like a raisin in the sun? Or fester like a sore ... A dream deferred? (full poem) |
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Ogden Nash American (1902-1971) |
The Germ A mighty creature is the germ, Though smaller than the pachyderm. His customary dwelling place Is deep within the human race ... The Germ (full poem) |
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Sylvia Plath American (1932-1963) |
Daddy You do not do, you do not do Any more, black shoe In which I have lived like a foot For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breathe or Achoo. Daddy (full poem) |
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