100 Favourite Poems

  1. This Be The Verse by Philip Larkin

  2. One Nation Under a Goatee by Murray Lachlan Young

  3. Fire and Ice by Robert Frost

  4. The Cow by Ogden Nash

  5. The Duck and The Kangaroo by Edward Lear

  6. The Owl and The Pussycat by Edward Lear

  7. The Jabberwocky by Lewis Carroll

  8. A Blade of Grass by Brian Patten

  9. My Master's Dragon by Jack Prelutsky

  10. My Old Cat by Hal Summers

  11. Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

  12. Incident by Countee Cullen

  13. Small Song by AR Ammons

  14. Fleas by Ogden Nash

  15. The Eagle by Alfred Lord Tennyson

  16. Limerick by Keeley Coppola

  17. Invictus by William Ernest Henley

  18. The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

  19. Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

  20. He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by WB Yeats

  21. Resumé by Dorothy Parker

  22. 'Do not go gentle into that good night' by Dylan Thomas

  23. Strange Fruit by Abel Meeropol

  24. Cross by Langston Hughes

  25. Sonnet 19 ('Devouring Time') by William Shakespeare

  26. Evidently Chickentown by John Cooper Clarke

  27. Bluebird by Charles Bukowski

  28. A Childish Prank by Ted Hughes

  29. In the Desert by Stephen Crane

  30. What Thomas Said in the Pub by Stephen James

  31. 'There once was a man up a tree' by Edward Lear & response by WS Gilbert

  32. Jenny Kissed Me by Leigh Hunt

  33. A Very Small Song by Dorothy Parker

  34. The Tyger by William Blake

  35. Not Waving But Drowning by Stevie Smith

  36. Justice by Langston Hughes

  37. Valentine by Wendy Cope

  38. 'All the world's a stage' speech from 'As You Like It' by William Shakespeare

  39. 'Do not stand at my grave and weep' by Mary Elizabeth Frye

  40. Jerusalem by William Blake

  41. Overheard on a Saltmarsh by Harold Munro

  42. The Soldier by Rupert Brooke

  43. Anthem for Doomed Youth by Wilfred Owen

  44. 15 Million Plastic Bags by Adrian Mitchell

  45. Wishes of an Elderly Man, Wished at a Garden Party, June 1914 by Sir Walter Alexander Raleigh

  46. This is just to say by William Carlos Williams

  47. Poem XXII from Spring and All by William Carlos Williams

  48. In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound

  49. The English Are So Nice by DH Lawrence

  50. Heredity by Thomas Hardy

  51. A Visit from Saint Nicholas by Clement Clarke Moore

  52. The Ideal by James Fenton

  53. XL: 'Into my heart an air that kills' from A Shropshire Lad by AE Housman

  54. Escape at Bedtime by Robert Louis Stevenson

  55. In the Middle of the Road by Carlos Drummond de Andrade

  56. Token Loss by Kay Ryan

  57. Funeral Blues by WH Auden

  58. Let Me Die A Youngman's Death by Roger McGough

  59. The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein

  60. The Greatest Poem in the English Language by Richard Burton

  61. The Unknown by Donald Rumsfeld

  62. A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns

  63. Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy

  64. 'I saw a man pursuing the horizon' by Stephen Crane

  65. [i carry your heart with me(i carry it in] by e e cummings

  66. Pied Beauty by Gerard Manley Hopkins

  67. Remember by Christina Rossetti

  68. Good Time Jesus by James Tate

  69. Poem 479 ('Because I could not stop for Death') by Emily Dickinson

  70. To Whom It May Concern by Andrew Motion

  71. Fable of the Mermaid and the Drunks by Pablo Neruda

  72. Daffodils by William Wordsworth

  73. Observation by Dorothy Parker

  74. Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

  75. The General by Siegfried Sassoon

  76. Nulla Fides ('For God's sake, mark that fly;') by Patrick Cary

  77. Drinking by Abraham Cowley

  78. Dead Cow Farm by Robert Graves

  79. No man is an island by John Donne

  80. Leisure by WH Davies

  81. The Other by RS Thomas

  82. How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43) by Elizabeth Barrett Browning

  83. The Crocodile by Lewis Carroll

  84. First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Millay

  85. Trees by Joyce Kilmer

  86. Holy Sonnet 10 ('Death be not proud') by John Donne

  87. Who? by Charles Causley

  88. The Night Apple by Allen Ginsberg

  89. Money by Dana Gioia

  90. Mirror by Sylvia Plath

  91. My Papa’s Waltz by Theodore Roethke

  92. Westron Wind by Anon

  93. To Help the Monkey Cross the River by Thomas Lux

  94. There once was a man from Nantucket, two different versions by Anon

  95. Heard Joke Once, as retold by Alan Moore

  96. A Boy Named Sue by Shel Silverstein

  97. My Own Epitaph by John Gay

  98. O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman

  99. 'This living hand, now warm and capable' by John Keats

  100. The Pig by Anon