favorite poems [i]

[silvermuse89]

I prefer prose to poetry most of the time, but there is something so beautiful about a well-crafted poem. There isn't a better occasion to broaden reading horizons, since April is National Poetry Month. So, here are some short snippets of my favorite poems. Yes, they are all well-known, because I am not well-read when it comes to poetry (or

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[insanefriends]

I have too many favs to put them all up, but here's one author/poem I've only met this year.

And this poem is, for me, beyond words.

http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/1486.html

[slytherinblack]

I really like this section of The Lay of the Last Minstrel.

I was gonna say Robert Frost, but I noticed you have Nothing Gold Can Stay on there - that's probably my second favorite of his. Canis Major is probably my favorite. And I love all the popular ones, too - Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening, Fire and Ice, The Road Not Taken...

[aiwritingfic]

Rudyard Kipling, "If--"
Dylan Thomas, "Do Not Go Gently"

[slytherinblack]

Have a few more links.
William Owen: Dulce Et Decorum Est
John McCrae: In Flanders Field
Yeates: The Second Coming, Easter 1916, The Rose Tree.