Some favourite poems of mine - and others recommended to me by friends and family. I've been fairly ruthless in my selection, limiting myself to only one poem per author.  Oh - the good news? All of my own poetry is so bad that it has been burnt! Got a poem you think I might like?   Mail me the text or a URL...

There are some separate Christmas poems here.

• W H Auden - O what is that sound?
• Thomas Lovell Beddoes - Song
• Wendy Cope - Flowers
• Robert Frost - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
• Seamus Heaney - Glanmore Sonnets - VII
• Ted Hughes - Fulbright Scholars
• Philip Larkin - An Arundel Tomb
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere
• John Masefield - Sea Fever
• Edna St. Vincent Millay - Justice Denied In Massachusetts
• J. Milton-Hayes - The Green Eye of the Yellow God
• William Shakespeare - Let Me Not to the Marriage of Two Minds
• Dylan Thomas - Do not go gentle into that good night
• W B Yeats - The Lake Isle of Innisfree
• Walt Whitman -O Captain! My Captain!
   

Last updated: 31/10/2005 This work is licenced under a Creative Commons Licence. ©2004 R Gillin