Favourite Poets

Not found on imdb: Dafydd ap Gwilym, Edward Thomas, R.S.Thomas, John Clare, Li Po/Li Bai, Tu Fu/Du Fu, Po Chu'i, Halina Poswiatowska

Favourite poems:

Abse- Cricket Ball
Ai- Twenty Year Marriage
Akhmatova- I Taught Myself to Live Simply
Akhmatova- The City that I Have Loved
Akhmatova- You Will Hear Thunder
Andresen- The Greeks
Angelou- The Caged Bird
Angelou- Phenomenal Woman
Angelou- Still I Rise
Armitage- Zoom
Arnold- Dover Beach
Ashley- Out of Work
Auden- Funeral Blues
Auden- In Memory of W.B.Yeats
Auden- Musée des Beaux Arts
Auden- Night Mail
Awoonor- Lament of the Silent Sisters
Barrett Browning- How do I love thee?
Barrett Browning- Sonnets from the Portuguese: XXVIII
Basho- Old Pond*
Baudelaire- Correspondences
Belloc- Tarantella
Berry- The Peace of Wild Things
Betjeman- Indoor Games at Newbury
Bishop- I am in need of music
Bishop- The Fish
Blake- Eternity
Blake- The Garden of Love
Blake- The Tyger
Bradstreet- To my Dear and Loving Husband
Brecht- War has been Given a Bad Name
Brooke- Heaven
Brooke- The Old Vicarage, Grantchester
Brooks- The Mother
Browning- Home Thoughts from Abroad*
Browning- My Last Duchess
Bukowski- congrats, Chinaski
Burns- Lament for Culloden
Burns- To a Mouse
Byron- The Destruction of Sennacherib*
Cardiff- Combing
Carroll- Life is but a Dream
Carroll- The Walrus and the Carpenter
Carver- Happiness
Carver- Late Fragment
Cavafy- Ithaka
Celan- Deathfugue
Chiyo-ni- Dragonfly Catcher
Clare- Emmonsail's Heath in Winter
Clare- I am
Clare- The Vixen
Clare- Young Lambs
Coleridge- Frost at Midnight*
Coleridge- Kubla Khan
Collins- Introduction to Poetry
Cope- Strugnell's Haiku
Corbin- Fallen
cummings- if i have made, my lady
cummings- the little horse is newlY
cummings- somewhere i have never travelled*
Dafydd ap Gwilym- The Seagull
Dafydd ap Gwilym- The Rattle Bag
Dafydd ap Gwilym- Trouble at an Inn
Dahl- The Pig
Dahl- Television
Dao (Bei)- The Boundary
Darwish- I Come from There
Davies- The Villain
De Andrade- Penniless Lovers
De La Mare- Fare Well
De La Mare- Nicholas Nye*
Dharker- Living Space
Dickinson- As imperceptibly as Grief
Dickinson- Because I could not stop for Death
Dickinson- Like Rain it sounded till it curved
Donne- The Good Morrow
Donne- No Man is an Island
Donne- The Sun Rising
Duffy- An Unseen
Duffy- Warming her Pearls
Eliot- La Figlia Che Piange
Eliot- The Love Song of J.Alfred Prufrock
Espriu- The Garden of Five Trees
Farjeon- Mrs Malone
Farrokhzad- And this is me
Farrokhzad- Let us Believe in the Beginning of a Cold Season
Farrokhzad- The Wind Will Carry Us
Feinstein- Getting Older
Flecker- The Old Ships
Frost- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Frye- Do not stand at my grave and weep
Ginsberg- A Supermarket in California
Grahame- The Song of Mr Toad
Hai Zi- Face the Sea, with Spring Flowers Blossoming
Hardy- The Darkling Thrush
Hardy- The Fallow Deer at the Lonely House
Hardy- A Thunderstorm in Town
Hardy- Transformations
Hardy- The Voice
Hayden- Those Winter Sundays
Heaney- The Railway Children
Herbert- The Flower
Holub- The Fly
Hopkins- God's Grandeur
Hopkins- The Windhover
Housman- Into my heart an air that kills
Housman- Loveliest of trees, the cherry now
Housman- Tell me not here, it needs not saying
Hughes (John Ceiriog)- Nant y Mynydd
Hughes (Langston)- The Negro Speaks of Rivers
Hughes (Ted)- Full Moon and Little Frieda
Hughes (Ted)- Pike
Issa- Snail, slowly slowly
James- Sentenced to Life
Jamie- Skeins o' Geese
Jonson-On my First Son
Juhasz- Birth of a Foal
Keats- Ode to a Nightingale*
Keats- The Eve of St Agnes
Keats- To Autumn
Khoury-Gata- For Noha Al Hegelan
Kinnell- St Francis and the Sow
Ko Un- Sunlight
Kunitz- End of Summer
Lam Thi My Da- Garden Fragrance
Larkin- Dublinesque
Larkin- The Whitsun Weddings
Lawrence- Piano
Lawrence- Snake
Lear- The Owl and the Pussycat
Leopardi- The Infinite
Levine- He would never use one word where none would do
Lewis- The Peasants
Lewis- Raiders' Dawn
Li Po- About Tu Fu
Li Po- Green Mountain
Li Po- The River Merchant's Wife
Li Po- To See Meng Hao-Jan off to Yang Chou
Li Po- Unfulfilled Desire
Little- Huge Blue
Longfellow- The Children's Hour
Longley- At Poll Salach
Lorca- The Unfaithful Wife*
Lorca- Ballad of the Civil Guard
MacCaig- Praise of a Collie
MacNeice- Snow
MacNeice- Soap Suds
Magee- High Flight (An Airman's Ecstasy)
Mahon- Everything is Going to Be All Right
Marquis- Warty Bliggins
Marvell- To his Coy Mistress
Masaoki- Spring rain haiku
Masefield- Sea Fever
Masefield- Spanish Waters
Mandelstam- Take from my Palms
Meng Hao-Jan- Thoughts on the Chill of Early Autumn
Merwin- Elegy for a Walnut Tree
Milosz- Ars Poetica?
Milosz- Encounter
Milton- On his Blindness
Minhinnick- The Fox in the National Museum of Wales
Mistral- Pine Forest
Mitchell- Celia, Celia
Monro- Milk for the Cat
Montale- Lemon Tree
Monte- At a Sidewalk Café
Monte- Eight-Fifteen
Morgan- The Loch Ness Monster's Song
Muir- The Horses
Murray- The Widower in the Country
Naidu- Cradle Song
Neruda- I Explain a Few Things
Neruda- Leaning into the Afternoons
Nicol- The Meaning of Africa
Nin- Risk
Norris- The Pit Ponies
Okri- I Held you in the Square
Olds- The Connoisseuse of Slugs
Oliver- In Blackwater Woods
Ormond- Cathedral Builders
Owen- Anthem for Doomed Youth
Owen- Dulce et Decorum est
Owen- The Send-off
Owen- Strange Meeting*
Pagis- Ein Leben
Patten- Armada
Pavese- Nocturne
Paz- I Speak of the City
Pessoa- Odes
Plath- Edge
Plath- Morning Song
Po Chu-i- The Almond Blossoms of Chao Village
Po Chu-i- Being on Duty all Night
Po Chu-i- The Song of Everlasting Grief
Pope- Ode to Solitude
Polydouri- Dream
Poswiatowska- i want to write about you
Ransom- Bells for John Whiteside's Daughter
Ransom- Piazza Piece
Reid- Scotland
Rich- Diving into the Wreck
Rilke- Archaic Torso of Apollo
Rilke- Evening
Rilke- This is the Creature*
Rilke- To Say before Going to Sleep
Rimbaud- The Sleeper in the Valley
Roberts- Poem from Llanybri (1944)
Roethke- Elegy for Jane
Roethke- The Visitant
Rossetti- A Birthday
Rossetti- Remember
Rossetti- Song
Rozewicz- Pigtail
Rozewicz- The Story of Old Women
Rumi- The Guest House
Rumi- Isn't That Something?
Sassoon- Everyone Sang
Sassoon- Suicide in the Trenches
Seferis- The Sea Caves
Senghor- I will Pronounce your Name
Senghor- To New York
Sexton- Her Kind
Shakespeare- Grief fills the room up
Shakespeare- Our revels now are ended
Shakespeare- Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Shakespeare- The barge she sat in
Shakespeare- There is a willow grows aslant a brook
Shelley- Ozymandias
Shelley- What art thou, Freedom?
Shire- Home
Shoneyin- Jolademi
Silverstein- Where the Sidewalk Ends
Snyder- A Spring Night in Shokoku-ji
Stevens- The Emperor of Ice Cream
Stevens- The Idea of Order at Key West
Stevens- Of Mere Being
Storni- Me at the Bottom of the Sea
Swinburne- In a coign of a cliff
Tada- At the Riverbank
Takamura- Two People under a Tree
Tao Chi'en- I Built my Hut
Tao Chi'en- Reading the Book of Hills and Seas
Teasdale- There will come soft rain
Tennyson- Dark house, by which once more i stand
Tennyson- The Eagle
Tennyson- The Lady of Shalott*
Tennyson- Morte d'Arthur
Tennyson- Now fades the long last streak of snow
Tennyson- Now sleeps the crimson petal, now the white
Thomas (Dylan)- Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night
Thomas (Dylan)- Fern Hill*
Thomas (Dylan)- Poem in October*
Thomas (Edward)- Adlestrop
Thomas (Edward)- Like the Touch of Rain
Thomas (Edward)- The Mill Pond
Thomas (Edward)- Tall Nettles
Thomas (R.S)- The Ancients of the World
Thomas (R.S)- At the End
Thomas (R.S)- The Bright Field
Thomas (R.S)- The Evacuee*
Thomas (R.S)- A Marriage
Thomas (R.S)- The Other
Transtromer- Tracks
Tu Fu- Dreaming of Li Po
Tu Fu- The Rain at Night
Varela- The Magician's Postscript
Walcott- After the Storm
Walcott- Love after Love
Walcott- Midsummer: “Sonnet XLIII”
Walcott- Ruins of a Great House
Wardle- Flight
Whitman- A Noiseless Patient Spider
Williams (C)- Flowers by the Sea
Williams (H)- Toilet
Williams Parry- The Fox
Wordsworth- Composed upon Westminster Bridge, September 3, 1802
Wordsworth- A slumber did my spirit seal
Wordsworth- Tintern Abbey
Wright- A Blessing
Wyatt- They Flee from me
Yeats- Easter 1916
Yeats- He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven
Yeats- The Lake Isle of Innisfree
Yeats- The Song of Wandering Aengus
Yeats- When You are Old
Zhang Ji- At Anchor in the Evening by the Maple Bridge*