PoetryLinks

19th C.

US

• Emily Dickinson
  • A word is dead / When it is said / Some say.
    I say it just / Begins to live / That day.
  • "I'm Nobody, Who are You?" [1]
  • "If you were coming in the fall" [2]
• Edgar Allen Poe,
  • Annabel Lee [3]
  • The Raven [4]
• Walt Whitman
  • "O Captain! My Captain!" [5] from Leaves of Grass

UK

• Lewis Carroll
  • "Jabberwocky" [6]
• Samuel Coleridge
  • "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (1798 in fact) [7] (compare to Baudelaire's "Albatros" [8])
• Edward Fitzgerald
  • "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" [9] (click go)
  • Rubaiyat Tuesday on the blog.
• Edward Lear
  • "The Akond of Swot" [10]
  • "Owl and the Pussycat" [11]

• Lord Alfred Tennyson
  • "The Lady of Shalott" [12]

20th C.

US

• e.e. cummings
  • "In just-spring" [13]
  • "Anyone Lived in a Pretty How Town" [14]
  • "Tictoc" [15]
• T.S. Eliot
  • Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats[16]
• Robert Frost
  • "The Mending Wall" [17]
  • "The Road Not Taken" [18]
• Ishmael Reed
  • A Cowboy in the Boat of Ra [19]
  • "Dualism in Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man":
    I am outside of history. / i wish i had some peanuts, / it looks hungry there in its cage.
    i am inside of history. / its hungrier than i thot."
• Adrienne Rich
  • "Diving into the Wreck" [20]
• Shel Silverstein
  • "Lazy Jane" [21]
• Wallace Stevens
  • "The Man With the Blue Guitar"

UK

• Rudyard Kipling, "If" [22]
  • A Daily Mail article on its Transvaal inspiration. [23]

• Ted Hughes, "Bride and Groom Lie Hidden for Three Days" [24]