Introduction to Poetry

We recommend you read these poems in order from first to last.

"Blackberrying" by Sylvia Plath

"She Walks in Beauty" by George Gordon, Lord Byron

"A Red Red Rose" by Robert Burns

"since feeling is first" by E.E. Cummings

"Sonnet 130" by William Shakespeare

"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick
"For James Dean" by Frank O'Hara

"What Lips My Lips Have Kissed" by Edna St. Vincent Millay

"Ulysses" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

"My Papa's Waltz" by Theodore Roethke
"The Leap" by James Dickey

"La Belle Dame Sans Merci" by John Keats

"The Lady of Shalott" by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

*"Sestina: Altaforte" by Ezra Pound

*"Warming Her Pearls" by Carol Anne Duffy
*"The Colonel" by Carolyn Forche

"The Hollow Men" by T.S. Eliot

"Gretel in Darkness" by Louise Gluck

"The Emperor of Ice Cream" by Wallace Stevens

"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T.S. Eliot

"In a Station of the Metro" by Ezra Pound

"Mending Wall" by Robert Frost

"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

"Fever 103°" by Sylvia Plath

"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allan Poe

"The Journey of the Magi" by T.S. Eliot

"Home Burial" by Robert Frost

"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

"East Coker" by T.S. Eliot