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A Few Famous Poems

The Tyger by William Blake

A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

She Walks in Beauty by George Gordon, Lord Byron

Litany by Billy Collins

Little Boy Blue by Eugene Field

Invictus by William Ernest Henley

My Aunt by Oliver Wendell Holmes

A Shropshire Lad by A.E. Housman

Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt

Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats

Song of the Chattahoochee by Sidney Lanier

The Owl and the Pussy-Cat by Edward Lear

The Arrow and the Song by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Sonnet XXIX by William Shakespeare

The Land of Counterpane by Robert Louis Stevenson

The Barefoot Boy by John Greenleaf Whittier

When You Are Old by William Butler Yeats

A Few Mother Goose "Melodies"

1. Bah, Bah, Black Sheep
2. Boys and Girls Come out to Play
3. Caesar's Song
4. Dickery Dickery Dock
5. Ding Dong Bell
6. High Diddle, Diddle
7. Hush-a-by Baby
8. Jack and Gill
9. Jack Sprat
10. Little Jack Horner
11. There was an Old Woman
12. Three wise men of Gotham
13. This Pig Went to Market

There is no scholarly method behind this choice of poems.  They are here just because I like them, and other people do, too.

Neither is this list of famous poems meant to be comprehensive.  It's a tiny sample of the massive amount of poetry written over the past 2,000 years, and is here only to (hopefully) whet your appetite for more poetry.  For a larger sample of poetry on-line, click here.

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