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Top 100 Famous Poems Ever by Famous Poets

Top 100 Famous Poems All-Time. These are the 100 all-time most popular famous poems on PoetrySoup, written by famous poets.

RankFamous PoemPoet
1 I'm nobody! Who are you? Emily Dickinson
2 Still I Rise Maya Angelou
3 A Red Red Rose Robert Burns
4 The Raven Edgar Allan Poe
5 Sonnet 29 William Shakespeare
6 White Flock Anna Akhmatova
7 When You are Old William Butler Yeats
8 If Rudyard Kipling
9 Because I could not stop for Death Emily Dickinson
10 The Road Not Taken Robert Frost
11 She Walks in Beauty George (Lord) Byron
12 Dickinson Poems by Number Emily Dickinson
13 A Daughter of Eve Christina Rossetti
14 The Tables Turned William Wordsworth
15 i carry your heart with me Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
16 How Do I Love Thee? Elizabeth Barrett Browning
17 Annabel Lee Edgar Allan Poe
18 Sonnet 71 William Shakespeare
19 O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman
20 The City In the Sea Edgar Allan Poe
21 The Hourglass Ben Jonson
22 Who will cry for the little boy? Antwone Fisher
23 Inaugural Poem Maya Angelou
24 for a rainy day D A Levy
25 Death Be Not Proud John Donne
26 The Tyger William Blake
27 Cradle Song William Blake
28 Frost at Midnight Samuel Taylor Coleridge
29 Mending Wall Robert Frost
30 Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey William Wordsworth
31 Tears Idle Tears Alfred Lord Tennyson
32 Jabberwocky Lewis Carroll
33 The Childrens Hour Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
34 Sonnet 55 William Shakespeare
35 I Write My Mother a Poem Fleda Brown
36 To a Mouse Robert Burns
37 The Tide Rises the Tide Falls Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
38 Crossing the Bar Alfred Lord Tennyson
39 The Last Leaf Oliver Wendell Holmes
40 THE ILIAD (excerpt)
41 Ode To Joy
42 Paul Revere's Ride Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
43 The Walrus and the Carpenter Lewis Carroll
44 Ode on Solitude Alexander Pope
45 The Flea John Donne
46 AN A.B.C Geoffrey Chaucer
47 Blight Ralph Waldo Emerson
48 Get Drunk Charles Baudelaire
49 Man George Herbert
50 To Find God Robert Herrick
51 Hélas Oscar Wilde
52 His Excuse for Loving Ben Jonson
53 The Owl and the Pussy-Cat Edward Lear
54 A Nocturnal Reverie Anne Kingsmill Finch
55 Emblems of Love Lascelles Abercrombie
56 Ode on a Grecian Urn John Keats
57 Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep Mary Elizabeth Frye
58 Spring Edward Estlin (E E) Cummings
59 In an Artists Studio Christina Rossetti
60 A Vision upon the Fairy Queen Sir Walter Raleigh
61 Dover Beach Matthew Arnold
62 I Hear America Singing Walt Whitman
63 When We Two Parted George (Lord) Byron
64 Believe Me If All Those Endearing Young Charms Thomas Moore
65 Recessional Rudyard Kipling
66 The Darkling Thrush Thomas Hardy
67 The Lady of Shalott Alfred Lord Tennyson
68 Christabel Samuel Taylor Coleridge
69 August 1968 Wystan Hugh (W H) Auden
70 The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge
71 Casey At The Bat Ernest Lawrence Thayer
72 To Atthis
73 The Charge of the Light Brigade Alfred Lord Tennyson
74 Burning Drift-Wood John Greenleaf Whittier
75 I dreaded that first Robin Emily Dickinson
76 A Satirical Elegy on the Death of a Late Famous General Jonathan Swift
77 The Gallery Andrew Marvell
78 To Celia Ben Jonson
79 To His Coy Mistress Andrew Marvell
80 Pied Beauty Gerard Manley Hopkins
81 Ichabod! John Greenleaf Whittier
82 Gods Grandeur Gerard Manley Hopkins
83 Ozymandias Percy Bysshe Shelley
84 The Lake Isle of Innisfree William Butler Yeats
85 The Prologue Anne Bradstreet
86 Hap Thomas Hardy
87 Concord Hymn Ralph Waldo Emerson
88 The New Colossus Emma Lazarus
89 The Fire of Drift-Wood Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
90 The Magpie Evening: A Prayer Gary Fincke
91 To a Lady on the Death of Her Husband Phillis Wheatley
92 The Women Who Loved Elvis All Their Lives Fleda Brown
93 The Author to Her Book Anne Bradstreet
94 My Last Duchess Robert Browning
95 On the Idle Hill of Summer A E Housman
96 The Passionate Shepherd to His Love Christopher Marlowe
97 They Flee from Me Sir Thomas Wyatt
98 from On the Equality of the Sexes Part I Judith Sargent Murray
99 To the Memory of Mr. Oldham John Dryden
100 Doc Hill Edgar Lee Masters

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