Poetry

Discover beautiful poems from classic and contemporary poets

The Road Not Taken

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...

Robert Frost 1916
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Sonnet 18

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...

William Shakespeare 1609
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Still I Rise

You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise...

Maya Angelou 1978
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Do Not Go Gentle

Do not go gentle into that good night, Old age should burn and rave at close of day; Rage, rage against the dying of the light...

Dylan Thomas 1951
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The Waste Land

April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain...

T.S. Eliot 1922
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Howl

I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragging themselves through the negro streets at dawn looking for an angry fix...

Allen Ginsberg 1956
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