Maybe it's just because I approve of poems sparked by an opium dream, but I've always liked "Kubla Khan" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.

Close conteders: Dylan Thomas "Do Not Go Gentle Into that Goodnight", Poe "The Raven","Annabelle Lee", "The City in the Sea".

In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree:
Where Alph, the sacred river, ran
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