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The Best Poems Ever: A Collection of Poetry's Greatest Voices
The Best Poems Ever A Collection of Poetry's Greatest Voices
Author: Edric S. Mesmer (Editor)
  • Blessing the boats / Lucille Clifton
  • Author to her book / Anne Bradstreet
  • When great dogs fight / Melvin B. Tolson
  • from To a skylark / Percy Bysshe Shelley
  • Sonnet 130 / William Shakespeare
  • Red hat / Gertrude Stein
  • Exile's letter / Rihaku (Li Po)
  • Untitled ("Not to sigh and t...  more »
  • In a station of the metro / Ezra Pound
  • Ode to enchanted light / Pablo Neruda
  • Life in a love / Robert Browning
  • Raven / Edgar Allan Poe
  • Poet is served her papers / Lorna Dee Cervantes
  • Buffalo dusk / Carl Sandburg
  • Ode on a Grecian urn / John Keats
  • Night dances / Sylvia Plath
  • This is just to say / William Carlos Williams
  • Which recounts how fantasy contents itself with honorable love / Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz
  • anyone lived in a pretty how town / e.e. cummings
  • Dulce et decorum est / Wilfred Owen
  • Untitled ("My life had stood-a loaded gun-") / Emily Dickinson
  • Archaic torso of Apollo / Rainer Maria Rilke
  • To S.M., a young African painter, on seeing his works / Phillis Wheatley
  • from Trilogy; the walls do not fall / H.D.
  • Jabberwocky / Lewis Carroll
  • Tyger / William Blake
  • Mother to son / Langston Hughes
  • Easter wings / George Herbert
  • Road not taken / Robert Frost
  • Triple fool / John Donne
  • Remembrance / Emily Bronte
  • Bean eaters / Gwendolyn Brooks
  • Thirteen ways of looking at a blackbird / Wallace Stevens -
  • Woodspurge / Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  • Storytelling / Barbara Guest
  • Delight in disorder / Robert Herrick
  • Who has seen the wind? / Christina Georgina Rossetti
  • Travel / Edna St. Vincent Millay
  • Doubt of future foes / Elizabeth I
  • Tenebris / Angelina Weld Grimke
  • Do not go gentle into that good night / Dylan Thomas
  • Sonnet 43 / Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Dover Beach / Matthew Arnold
  • I may, I might, I must / Marianne Moore
  • Poets to come / Walt Whitman
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ISBN-13: 9780439329019
ISBN-10: 0439329019
Publication Date: 2001
Pages: 74
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Publisher: Scholastic
Book Type: Mass Market Paperback
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coolcat avatar reviewed The Best Poems Ever: A Collection of Poetry's Greatest Voices on + 10 more book reviews
This book is for creative future poets who want to learn more about the ways of good writing. And yes,these are the best poems ever!
mission-read avatar reviewed The Best Poems Ever: A Collection of Poetry's Greatest Voices on + 24 more book reviews
A very good selection
reviewed The Best Poems Ever: A Collection of Poetry's Greatest Voices on + 7 more book reviews
Great collection of classic poetry. I used this book in my own classroom as a supplement. A wonderful read on a winter day!


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