April 11th, 2017 | Updated on February 28th, 2024
Poems are the best way of expressing feelings or emotions to everyone in a gentle way. People write poems when something stops them to express their feeling and emotions and by writing poems they says everything to every one.
There are lots of poems which are very popular in whole world but there is a list of only 20 most popular poems which are beautiful in itself.
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1. “She Walks In Beauty ” – Lord Byron
She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that’s best of dark and bright
Meet in her aspect and her eyes;
Thus mellowed to that tender light
Which heaven to gaudy day denies…… Click here
2. “A Dream Within A Dream” – Edgar Allan Poe
3. “The Road Not Taken” – Robert Frost
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
To where it bent in the undergrowth……..Read more
4. “Ozymandias” – Percy Bysshe Shelley
I met a traveller from an antique land,
Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone
Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand,
Half sunk a shattered visage lies, whose frown,
And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command,
Tell that its sculptor well those passions read
Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things…….Available here.
5. “The Tyger” – William Blake
6. “On His Blindness” – William Faithorne
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide,
And that one talent which is death to hide
Lodg’d with me useless, though my soul more bent
To serve therewith my Maker, and present…….Click here.
7. “A Psalm Of Life” – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
What The Heart Of The Young Man Said To The Psalmist.
Tell me not, in mournful numbers,
Life is but an empty dream!
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem…….. Visit here.
8. “Daffodils” – William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze……. Check out here
9. “Holy Sonnet 10: Death, Be Not Proud” – John Donne
Death, be not proud, though some have called thee
Mighty and dreadful, for thou are not so;
For those whom thou think’st thou dost overthrow
Die not, poor Death, nor yet canst thou kill me……..Available here.
10. “Sonnet 18” – Shakespeare Sonnet
Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer’s lease hath all too short a date…… Click here.
11. “The New Colossus” – Emma Lazarus
12. “There Is Another Sky” – Emily Dickinson
There is another sky,
Ever serene and fair,
And there is another sunshine,
Though it be darkness there;
Never mind faded forests, Austin,
Never mind silent fields –
Here is a little forest,
Whose leaf is ever green;
Here is a brighter garden…….Click here
13. “I Wandered Lonely As A Cloud” – William Wordsworth
I wandered lonely as a cloud
That floats on high o’er vales and hills,
When all at once I saw a crowd,
A host, of golden daffodils;
Beside the lake, beneath the trees,
Fluttering and dancing in the breeze…… Available here.
14. “A Life” – Sylvia Plath
Touch it: it won’t shrink like an eyeball,
This egg-shaped bailiwick, clear as a tear.
Here’s yesterday, last year —
Palm-spear and lily distinct as flora in the vast
Windless threadwork of a tapestry……. Click here
15. “Be Glad Your Nose Is On Your Face” – Jack Prelutsky
Be glad your nose is on your face,
not pasted on some other place,
for if it were where it is not,
you might dislike your nose a lot…… Visit here.
16. “A Red, Red Rose” – Robert Burns
O my Luve is like a red, red rose
That’s newly sprung in June;
O my Luve is like the melody
That’s sweetly played in tune……Visit here.
17. “I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings” – Maya Angelou
A free bird leaps
on the back of the wind
and floats downstream
till the current ends
and dips his wing
in the orange sun rays
and dares to claim the sky……. Click here.
18. “Happiness” – Matthieu Ricard
What boots to chase what flees
Alike to my fugitive years,
Often mistaken for me
That have still shorter date
And melt sooner than my dirt cloak,
Save dwell in thoughts fair and fair in heart
That are my last call at night
And first wish as i awake……. Available here.
19. “A Pretty A Day” – E. E. Cummings
A pretty a day (and every fades)
is here and away (but born are maids
to flower an hour in all, all)
o yes to flower until so blithe
a doer a wooer some limber and lithe
some very fine mower a tall;tall…… Visit here.
20. “Where The Sidewalk Ends” – Shel Silverstein
There is a place where the sidewalk ends
To cool in the peppermint wind……Visit here
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