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The Raven - Poe

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The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

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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; 5 Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for... [show more]

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A Dream Deferred- Langston Hughes

What happens to a dream deferred?

Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?
Or fester like a sore--
And then run?
Does it stink like rotten meat?
Or crust and sugar over--
like a syrupy sweet?

Maybe it just sags
like a heavy load.

Or does it explode?

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Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock ts elliott

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Sympathy- Paul Laurence Dunbar

I know what the caged bird feels, alas! When the sun is bright on the upland slopes; When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass, And the river flows like a stream of glass; When the first bird sings and the first bud opes, And the faint perfume from its chalice steals-- I know what the caged bird... [show more]

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Stopping By Woods On A Snowy Evening by Robert Frost

Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near Between the woods and frozen lake The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a... [show more]

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Tigers

by Eliza Grizwold

What are we now but voices
who promise each other
a life neither one can deliver,
not for lack of wanting
but wanting cant make it so.
We hang from a vine
at the cliffs edge.
There are tigers above
and below. Let us love
one another and let go.

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Dream Within A Dream - poe

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I Carry Your Heart With Me - EE Cummings

i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)i am never without it(anywhere i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling) i fear no fate(for you are my fate,my sweet)i want no world(for beautiful you are my world,my true) and it's you are whatever a moon has always... [show more]

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Jabberwocky by Lewis Carrol

'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe; All mimsy were the borogoves, And the mome raths outgrabe. "Beware the Jabberwock, my son! The jaws that bite, the claws that catch! Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun The frumious Bandersnatch!" He took his vorpal sword in hand: Long... [show more]

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4 votes

This Be The Verse

They fuck you up, your mum and dad. They may not mean to, but they do. They fill you up with faults they had And add some extra, just for you. But they were fucked up in their turn By fools in old style hats and coats, Who half the time were soppy-stern And half at one anothers throats. Man hands on misery to... [show more]

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Phenomenal Woman by Maya Angelou

Pretty women wonder where my secret lies. I'm not cute or built to suit a model's fashion size. But when I start to tell them they think I'm telling lies. I say It's in the reach of my arms, the span of my hips, the stride of my steps, the curl of my lips, I'm a woman. Phenomenally, Phenomenal woman , that's... [show more]

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I Fall For You

The leaves on the trees in colorful repose cascading and swirling, paint their way to the ground like the path to you I found. I fall for you. Blue sky clouds and misty days of dew slip blankets of covering comfort to envelope, the way I love you. Orange sunrise, peach sunset. Not a day past without the... [show more]

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Fire and Ice - Robert Frost

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If - Rudyard Kipling

If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you But make allowance for their doubting too, If you can wait and not be tired by waiting, Or being lied about, don't deal in lies, Or being hated, don't give way to hating, And... [show more]

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lifeisthemeaningoflife lifeisthemeaningoflife: 753 points   2 years ago

read Russell Edson: http://www.poemhunter.com/russell-edson/

best living poet.

if more people knew about truly great poets like this people might actually approach poetry like they do fiction, and we wouldn't end up with trite and boring lists like this one.

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