Just curious.
Mine's Sailing to Byzantium, by William B. Yeats:
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2007-03-27 10:05:05 · 11 answers · asked by aa.gabriel 4 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Books & Authors
I have several favorites:
"The Tiger" by William Blake
"To a Mouse" by Robert Burns
"The Spider and the Fly" by Mary Howitt
"The Owl and the Pussycat" by Edward Lear
"The Arrow and the Song" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
"The Raven" by Edgar Allen Poe
2007-03-27 11:27:30 · answer #1 · answered by BlueManticore 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Well....at the risk of sounding ordinary and typical, I'm gonna have to go with 'All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter' by Tolkien. It's a really great poem.
All That Is Gold Does Not Glitter
All that is gold does not glitter,
Not all those who wander are lost;
The old that is strong does not wither,
Deep roots are not reached by the frost.
From the ashes a fire shall be woken,
A light from the shadows shall spring;
Renewed shall be blade that was broken,
The crownless again shall be king.
-J.R.R. Tolkien
Some other poems I like are:
'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe
'Fire and Ice' by Robert Frost
and anything by Tolkien and Shel Silverstein
2007-03-27 17:16:43 · answer #2 · answered by Bibliophile 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
My favorite poem is by Luis M.M. Rodriguez titled The Puzzle Brought In It's entirety. It was written during the Bush campaign by one cool anti-Bush for Presdient dude. If you want to read it, then you will have to more than likely see it written and scrawled on a california prison wall where this cool cat wrote this poem down. This Luis guy ended up in prison, I cannot divulge this info because this guy would be mad as you know what if I did. He won't mind if I tell you that that poem was so cool that a lot of the guards copied it down to read to their wives.
2007-03-27 17:18:53 · answer #3 · answered by Pink Honey 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I don't know that I can pick just one favorite, but all poems written by Sylvia Plath are insanely amazing. Even in her rhetorical abstraction, a vivid scene is alway created. I also like the collection called Sonnets to Orpheus by Rilke. Those poems aren't named, but numbered rather.
2007-03-27 17:12:07 · answer #4 · answered by M 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Mine is Jabberwocky, by Lewis Carroll. I love the absurdity of Carroll's work. "`Twas brillig, and the slithy toves / Did gyre and gimble in the wabe / All mimsy were the borogoves / And the mome raths outgrabe."
2007-03-27 17:13:03 · answer #5 · answered by pumker99 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I'm nobody! Who are You?
Are you nobody too?
Then there's a pair of us--don't tell!
They'd banish us you know
How dreary to be somebody!
How public, like a frog
To tell your name the livelong day
To an admiring bog!
Emily Dickinson
2007-03-27 17:15:04 · answer #6 · answered by Sara 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
She walks in beauty - Lord Byron
2007-03-27 17:18:59 · answer #7 · answered by Robert R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can tell you that my favorite poem in relation to how I feel about cats is this great short, 2 line poem............."The trouble with a kitten is that, eventually it turns into a cat.........T.S Elliot
2007-03-27 21:19:44 · answer #8 · answered by Mister Fizzy 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
"Luceafarul" by Mihai Eminescu...
that's an romanian poet.
and "Plumb" by george Bacovia.
i love poems...
i am a poet too.
2007-03-27 17:11:16 · answer #9 · answered by aaaaa 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
i am not sure its a poem but i love the raven by edgar allan poe.
2007-03-27 17:53:54 · answer #10 · answered by dixie58 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋