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10 Greatest Poems of All Time

The greatest poems of all time written by modern and famous poets in american literature and english poetry. This selection includes popular poems such as The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost and Daddy by Sylvia Plath. These modern and classical poems about love, nature, death, family and friendship, celebrate and represent the famous poems ever written perfect to read and recite in competitions for children and adults in schools and colleges. Each poem is followed by a brief analysis so you can find exactly what suits your search.

10 Greatest Poems of All Time

I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth

<span class="entry-title-primary">I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">William Wordsworth</span>

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.

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10 Greatest Poems of All Time

The Road Not Taken Robert Frost

<span class="entry-title-primary">The Road Not Taken</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">Robert Frost</span>

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

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10 Greatest Poems of All Time

The New Colossus Emma Lazarus

<span class="entry-title-primary">The New Colossus</span> <span class="entry-subtitle">Emma Lazarus</span>

Not like the brazen giant of Greek fame,
With conquering limbs astride from land to land;
Here at our sea-washed, sunset gates shall stand
A mighty woman with a torch, whose flame
Is the imprisoned lightning, and her name

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Famous Poets

Alfred Lord Tennyson Dylan Thomas Edgar Allan Poe Emily Dickinson Emma Lazarus George Gordon Byron John Donne Maya Angelou Percy Bysshe Shelley Robert Burns Robert Frost Rudyard Kipling Samuel Taylor Coleridge T. S. Eliot W. H. Auden Walt Whitman William Blake William Ernest Henley William Shakespeare William Wordsworth

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