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The Waste Land

T.S. Eliot, Known for its fragmented structure, allusions to mythology, and the line 'April is the cruellest month.'

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Paradise Lost

John Milton, Epic poem about the fall of man, featuring Satan's famous line 'Better to reign in Hell than serve in Heaven.'

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The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe, Narrative poem featuring a talking raven and the refrain 'Nevermore.'

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Ode to a Nightingale

John Keats, Romantic ode reflecting on transience and immortality, beginning with 'My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains.'

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Dover Beach

Matthew Arnold, Explores the decline of faith, starting with a description of the sea's 'eternal note of sadness.'

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Howl

Allen Ginsberg, Beat generation poem starting 'I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness.'

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The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost, Famous for the lines 'Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—I took the one less traveled by.'

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Song of Myself

Walt Whitman, Central poem of Leaves of Grass, beginning with 'I celebrate myself, and sing myself.'

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Features a cursed sailor and the famous line 'Water, water, everywhere, nor any drop to drink.'

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Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Sonnet about the impermanence of power, ending with 'Look on my Works, ye Mighty, and despair!'

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Beowulf

Anonymous, Old English epic about the hero Beowulf's battles with Grendel, Grendel's mother, and a dragon.

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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

William Wordsworth, Romantic poem about daffodils, starting with 'I wandered lonely as a cloud.'

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Invictus

William Ernest Henley, Famous for the closing lines 'I am the master of my fate, I am the captain of my soul.'

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Charge of the Light Brigade

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Narrative poem commemorating a disastrous cavalry charge during the Crimean War.

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Because I Could Not Stop for Death

Emily Dickinson, Features personified Death as a carriage driver, starting with 'Because I could not stop for Death.'

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Annabel Lee

Edgar Allan Poe, Gothic poem about a lost love, with the refrain 'In a kingdom by the sea.'

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Ulysses

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Dramatic monologue in the voice of the aging Ulysses, ending with 'To strive, to seek, to find, and not to yield.'

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If—

Rudyard Kipling, Inspirational poem beginning with 'If you can keep your head when all about you are losing theirs.'

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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock

T.S. Eliot, Features the famous line 'Do I dare disturb the universe?' and explores modern alienation.

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A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning

John Donne, Metaphysical poem using a compass as a conceit for love.

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Kubla Khan

Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Visionary fragment describing 'a stately pleasure-dome' in Xanadu.

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My Last Duchess

Robert Browning, Dramatic monologue revealing the Duke's controlling nature, featuring a portrait of his late wife.

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Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Robert Frost, Ends with the famous lines 'And miles to go before I sleep.'

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She Walks in Beauty

Lord Byron, Romantic poem praising a woman's grace and beauty.

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Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night

Dylan Thomas, Villanelle urging resistance against death, with the refrain 'Rage, rage against the dying of the light.'

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To His Coy Mistress

Andrew Marvell, Carpe diem poem featuring the lines 'But at my back I always hear / Time's wingèd chariot hurrying near.'

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Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard

Thomas Gray, Meditative poem on mortality, beginning with 'The curfew tolls the knell of parting day.'

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The Canterbury Tales

Geoffrey Chaucer, Collection of stories in verse, including the General Prologue and the tale of the Wife of Bath.

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An Ode to the West Wind

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Starts with 'O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being.'

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The Tyger

William Blake, From Songs of Experience, featuring the lines 'Tyger Tyger, burning bright, / In the forests of the night.'

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Lines Composed a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

William Wordsworth, Explores the power of nature and memory, beginning with 'Five years have past.'

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Sailing to Byzantium

W.B. Yeats, Explores art and aging, starting with 'That is no country for old men.'

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The Second Coming

W.B. Yeats, Known for 'Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold' and 'a rough beast slouching toward Bethlehem.'

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The Ballad of Reading Gaol

Oscar Wilde, Reflects on prison life and morality, with the line 'Yet each man kills the thing he loves.'

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Ode on a Grecian Urn

John Keats, Celebrates the eternal beauty of art, ending with 'Beauty is truth, truth beauty.'

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The Divine Comedy

Dante Alighieri, Epic journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, featuring Virgil as a guide.

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To a Skylark

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Celebrates the song of a skylark, opening with 'Hail to thee, blithe Spirit!'

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Lady Lazarus

Sylvia Plath, Confessional poem referencing the Holocaust and resurrection, with the line 'I eat men like air.'

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The Prelude

William Wordsworth, Autobiographical epic exploring the growth of the poet's mind.

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The Song of Hiawatha

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Epic poem inspired by Native American legends, starting with 'By the shores of Gitche Gumee.'

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Casey at the Bat

Ernest Lawrence Thayer, Humorous narrative about baseball, ending with 'But there is no joy in Mudville.'

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Jabberwocky

Lewis Carroll, Nonsense poem from Through the Looking-Glass featuring words like 'slithy' and 'vorpal.'

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The Battle Hymn of the Republic

Julia Ward Howe, Famous for 'Mine eyes have seen the glory of the coming of the Lord.'

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Thanatopsis

William Cullen Bryant, Meditation on death and nature, opening with 'To him who in the love of Nature holds.'

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The Cremation of Sam McGee

Robert W. Service, Narrative about the frozen North, ending with Sam's cremation in a furnace.

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The Iliad

Homer, Epic poem about the Trojan War, focusing on Achilles and his wrath.

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The Odyssey

Homer, Epic poem about Odysseus's journey home after the Trojan War.

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The Song of Roland

Anonymous, French epic poem about Charlemagne's knight Roland and his heroic last stand.

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Gitanjali

Rabindranath Tagore, Collection of devotional poems, including themes of spirituality and unity.

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The Aeneid

Virgil, Latin epic about Aeneas's journey to found Rome, featuring his descent into the underworld.

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Inferno

Dante Alighieri, The first part of The Divine Comedy, detailing Dante's journey through Hell.

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Don Juan

Lord Byron, Epic satirical poem about the adventures and misadventures of its titular character.

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Aurora Leigh

Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Verse novel exploring the life of a female poet.

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The Faerie Queene

Edmund Spenser, Allegorical epic celebrating the virtues of chivalry.

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The Lay of the Last Minstrel

Sir Walter Scott, Romantic narrative poem blending folklore and history.

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Tam o' Shanter

Robert Burns, Humorous narrative about a drunken farmer encountering witches.

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The Charge of the Heavy Brigade

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Companion poem to The Charge of the Light Brigade.

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The Destruction of Sennacherib

Lord Byron, Known for its rhythmic repetition and biblical allusion.

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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Edward FitzGerald, Translation of Persian quatrains, often meditative and hedonistic.

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The Seafarer

Anonymous, Old English poem exploring themes of exile and the sea.

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The Wanderer

Anonymous, Anglo-Saxon elegy reflecting on loss and transience.

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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Anonymous, Middle English chivalric romance in verse.

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The Vision of Piers Plowman

William Langland, Allegorical poem critiquing social and religious corruption.

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The Cloud

Percy Bysshe Shelley, Extended metaphor describing the water cycle and nature's power.

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The Garden

Andrew Marvell, Pastoral poem celebrating solitude and natural beauty.

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To a Mouse

Robert Burns, Famous for the line 'The best-laid schemes o' mice an' men / Gang aft agley.'

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The Eclogues

Virgil, Pastoral poems blending mythology and Roman politics.

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The Georgics

Virgil, Didactic poems about farming and human relationship with nature.

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Goblin Market

Christina Rossetti, Allegorical poem featuring themes of temptation and sisterly love.

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The Ballad of East and West

Rudyard Kipling, Famous for the line 'East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet.'

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The Highwayman

Alfred Noyes, Narrative poem about love, sacrifice, and betrayal.

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The Legend of Sigurd and Gudrun

J.R.R. Tolkien, Epic poem inspired by Norse mythology.

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The Iliad of India

Valmiki, Sanskrit epic poem about the heroic deeds of Prince Rama, from the Ramayana.

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Mahabharata

Vyasa, Sanskrit epic, including the Bhagavad Gita, exploring dharma and duty.

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The Song of Songs

Attributed to Solomon, Biblical poem celebrating love and longing.

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Bhagavad Gita

Part of the Mahabharata, featuring a dialogue between Arjuna and Krishna on duty and spirituality.

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Genesis

Anonymous, Old English epic retelling of the biblical creation story.

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Paradiso

Dante Alighieri, The final part of The Divine Comedy, exploring the realm of Heaven.

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Evangeline

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Narrative poem about the Acadian deportation and lost love.

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The Canterbury Tales: The Pardoner's Tale

Geoffrey Chaucer, A moral tale of greed and death.

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The Canterbury Tales: The Knight's Tale

Geoffrey Chaucer, A story of chivalric love and rivalry.

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The Canterbury Tales: The Miller's Tale

Geoffrey Chaucer, A bawdy and humorous tale of trickery.

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The Lady of Shalott

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Narrative poem about a cursed lady who weaves in a tower.

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Paul Revere's Ride

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Narrative poem immortalizing the American Revolutionary War.

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The Death of the Hired Man

Robert Frost, Pastoral poem exploring themes of home and responsibility.

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Easter, 1916

W.B. Yeats, Reflecting on the Irish independence movement and featuring the refrain 'A terrible beauty is born.'

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In Memoriam A.H.H.

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Elegiac poem mourning the loss of a close friend.

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The Bells

Edgar Allan Poe, Known for its onomatopoeia and rhythmic repetition of 'bells.'

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Renascence

Edna St. Vincent Millay, Explores themes of spiritual awakening and the natural world.

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I Sing the Body Electric

Walt Whitman, Celebrates the human body and soul, part of Leaves of Grass.

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When You Are Old

W.B. Yeats, Romantic and reflective poem inspired by unrequited love.

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The Tower

W.B. Yeats, Collection including poems about Irish myth and personal reflection.

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The Burial of the Dead

T.S. Eliot, The opening section of The Waste Land, featuring themes of desolation.

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The Four Quartets

T.S. Eliot, Philosophical and meditative poems on time and spirituality.

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The Phoenix and the Turtle

William Shakespeare, Allegorical poem about the death of ideal love.

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A Shropshire Lad

A.E. Housman, Collection of pastoral and elegiac poems.

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Idylls of the King

Alfred Lord Tennyson, Epic poem cycle about the legends of King Arthur.

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The Ballad of Birmingham

Dudley Randall, Reflecting on the 1963 church bombing in Alabama.

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Poetry

Marianne Moore, Famous for the line 'I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all this fiddle.'

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September 1, 1939

W.H. Auden, Poem written on the eve of World War II, beginning with 'I sit in one of the dives.'