What is your favorite poem?
Francine
Anything by Robert Frost
Ruth
"The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Sandi
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost. I find new meaning in it as I age.
Peggy Kincaid
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
Dianne
"The Cremation of Sam McGee"
by Robert W. Service
Edy
"High Flight" by John Gillespie Magee, Jr. My father, who passed away in 1985 and was a pilot, read this poem to me when I was a little girl. When Daddy died, it was also read as his pilot friends flew over the church. I will never forget that sight nor the sound of my dad's voice reading this poem to me.
Linda M. Johnson
One I wrote, called "Master Pieces"
Ann Bowen
"Outwitted" by Edwin Markham
He drew a circle that shut me out ---
Heretic, rebel, a thing to flout
But love and I had the wit to win
We drew a circle that took him in.
Suzi Skutley
I don't have a favorite poem so much as favorite poet(s). Right now, for humorous verse it's Ogden Nash. For the more serious stuff, it is Byrd Baylor (a children's book author, but her books are often poetry).
Ricki Marking-Camuto
I have a few:
"Richard Cory
"The Walrus and the Carpenter"
"Hiding"
Lori
"The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe
Gordon Wilson
There is a very cute poem that I read as a child and still remember fairly well. I have --- apparently incorrectly --- been creditting Ogden Nash for it. It's called "Eletelephony" by Laura Richards.
Arlene Herring
"Musée Des Deaux Arts" (1940) by W. H. Auden
Michelle Miller
"Annabel Lee" by Edgar Allen Poe
Freda
"The Death of the Hired Man" by Robert Frost
Angie
"Renascence" by Edna St. Vincent Milay.
I read it in high school and have loved it ever since. I try to read it at least once a year.
Debbie
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
Amy V
"The Second Coming" by W. B. Yeats
Monica Jordan
My favorite poem is "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost.
Rosalie Sambuco
"Casey at the Bat"
Tamara
The one Meryl Streep read in the movie Out of Africa at Dennis' funeral, "To An Athlete Dying Young" by A. E. Houseman.
Marion Miller
I will always remember the poem "Trees" by Joyce Kilmer because I had to memorize it in school. I envy people who can write poetry easily.
Linda Estrin
"Ballad of the Sleepwalker" by Federico Garcia Lorca
Sheila Soloff
"The Naming of Cats" by T. S. Eliot for a funny one.
For a serious one, "Andrea Del Sarto" by Robert Browning. The line, "ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, / Or what's a heaven for?" has been my philosophy of life for many years (keep striving, keep achieving, keep dreaming).
Patti D.
My favorite poem is one I wrote myself about my Dad. I write a lot of poetry.
Marie
"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night"
Lee
I love Emily Dickinson's "Because I could not stop for Death" or Ogden Nash's "Kindly Unhitch That Star, Buddy"
Vickie
"Nada te turbe" by Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
This poem basically says to not let anything upset you because God is in control.
Joanne
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
Rose
Robert Frost's "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening"
F Tessa Bartels
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
Frank Giitter
"The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot.
Jerica
"Roses are Red"
Anonymous
"A Bag of Tools"
Shannon Benna
"The Swing" by Robert Louis Stevenson
Greg Sorcsek
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
Almost anything by Frost, as well as Edna St. Vincent Millay.
Juanita
Psalms 23
Jo
"Dreams" by Langston Hughes
Sue L.
Any and all of Emily Dickinson's poems. I absolutely love her poetry
Rose Di Fante
SONNETS FROM THE PORTUGUESE by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Trez
"If" by Rudyard Kipling
Natasha Floyd
"Courage" by Anne Sexton
Kathleen Wierzbicki
"Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
Mari-Ella Kelly
Annabel Lee, by Edgar Allan Poe --- not just because of its sadness, but the style, the music, the feel of it. If asked later, I'll have another favorite.
C Lee Parry
"Famous" by Naomi Shihab Nye
Fran Weber
Anything that Dorothy Parker penned. I studied her in college, and the older I become, the more I appreciate her writings.
Sharon Gage
"The Spell Of The Yukon" by Robert Service
Anne K.
"Disabled" by Wilfred Owen
Kate Stiffler
"Thanatopsis" by William Cullen Bryant
Diana
"Stopping By The Woods On A Snowy Evening" by Robert Frost
Joan Woods
"Trees" by Joyce Kilmer
Rachel Cropper
Claude Mckay's "If We Must Die"
Lindy
"Leda and the Swan" by William Butler Yeats
Janet Best
"The Village Blacksmith" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Tress
"For Annie" by Edgar Allan Poe
Ellen Engelking
That wonderful poem read at the funeral in the film Four Weddings and a Funeral, "Funeral Blues" by W. H. Auden.
Charlene Amos
"The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost. The themes of missed opportunities and taking chances resonants in every person's life... It's a beautifully written, eloquent poem.
Sunil
"Daffodils" by William Wordsworth
The first signs of spring, excellent use of metaphors, as in a man's loneliness and the single cloud in the sky,captures the mood perfectly.
Sharon
Charge Of The Light Brigade by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Kim
I don't think I could label just a single favorite, but one poem that I absolutely love is Naomi Shihab Nye's "Two Countries."
Debbie
"The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost
He is my favorite American poet, but that poem speaks to being willing to follow your heart, and not always your head, as well as making choices and making them count.
Michelle Miller
"God made a little gentian" by Emily Dickinson
Pat Bailey
"So If You Love Me" by Ruth Herschberger
Lisa Henderson
Joyce Kilmer's "To a Young Poet Who Killed Himself"
C. Jablon
Anything by Emily Dickinson
