Famous Poetry (not by me)
that's definitely worth reading...

Love's Philosophy - my favorite love poem
Percy Shelley

Invictus - my favorite life poem
William Ernest Henley

Dover Beach
Matthew Arnold

Sonnet 14: If thou must love me...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnet 43: How do I love thee?
Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Poema para los Californios Muertos
Lorna Dee Cervantes

r-p-o-p-h-e-s-s-a-g-r
e.e. cummings

Because I could not stop for death
Emily Dickinson

I heard a fly buzz when I died
Emily Dickinson

A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning
John Donne

Easter Wings
George Herbert

Pied Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins

On My First Son
Ben Jonson

On First Looking into Chapman's Homer
John Keats

Sonnet XIX: When I consider how my light is spent
John Milton

Dulce et decorum est
Wilfred Owen

In a Station of the Metro
Ezra Pound

Naming of Parts
Henry Reed

Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare

Sonnet 130
William Shakespeare

A Noiseless Patient Spider
Walt Whitman

Beat! Beat! Drums!
Walt Whitman

Dirge for Two Veterans
Walt Whitman

He wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
William Butler Yeats

Villanelles

One Art
Elizabeth Bishop

The Story We Know
Martha Collins

Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Dylan Thomas

Children's Poetry I Like

One Winter Night in August
X.J. Kennedy

A Big Deal for the Tooth Fairy
X.J. Kennedy

Sick
Shel Silverstein

Smart
Shel Silverstein