List 1 - Favourite Poems

I don't pretend to have done a study on poems per se. These are just stuff which have struck a chord in my being or touched my soul in some way. Since I never really explore poetry for its own sake, these are mainly pieces I have been introduced to or stumbled across ( so nothing cutting edge here people...just the usual run-of-the mill classic stuff)

This post is a result of an evening out with Jo. Was just dinner and a walkabout but twas fun!. We discussed life in general and guys in particular. We had drinks at Starbucks and mooned about in Borders. I found a Neil Gaiman book I'd never read (Stardust) which started off with "Song" and showed it to Jo. We ended up with a Neil Gaiman a-piece.
Also discovered that The March of the Penguins was one long French poem. That is just too cool. Wish that was reflected in the English subtitles. Hmm maybe it was....

Anyway - my Top 10 Beloved Poems in no particular order (although "Thrush" will always be special for being my first).

1. The Darkling Thrush - Thomas Hardy http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/917.html
http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/tchg/wby/Cardiff.Hardy.html

2. Ballad of Kublai Khan - William Taylor Coleridge http://www.zyra.org.uk/kublai.htm

3. Song - John Donne http://www.luminarium.org/sevenlit/donne/song.htm

4. The Force That Through The Green Fuse Drives The Flower - Dylan Thomas http://www.bigeye.com/theforce.htm

5. Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night - Dylan Thomas http://www.bigeye.com/donotgo.htm

6. Psalm 23 - Bible http://www.christnotes.org/bible.asp?Keywords=Psalm+23&Version=KJV

7. When I Consider How My Light Is Spent - John Milton http://rpo.library.utoronto.ca/poem/1457.html

8. Self-Pity - DH Lawrence
http://www.cswnet.com/~erin/dhlpoem.htm

9. Road Less Travelled - Robert Frost http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/2940/frost8.html

10. O Captain My Captain! - Walt Whitman
http://www.bartleby.com/142/193.html


The Almost Made-Its

The Thought-Fox - Ted Hughes http://www.poemhunter.com/p/m/poem.asp?poet=6616&poem=31435

Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day - Shakespeare http://www.fleurdelis.com/shallIcomparethee.htm

She Walks In Beauty, Like The Night - Lord Byron
http://www.bartleby.com/106/173.html

Leda & The Swan - WB Yeats
http://www.online-literature.com/yeats/865/

Ozymandias - PB Shelley
http://www.bartleby.com/106/246.html

Preludes - TS Elliot
http://www.bartleby.com/198/3.html

(pictures courtesy Wouter; hope this post was short enough for you!)