Ok, so I like poetry. Or, I should say, I like some poetry. Sometimes I write my own poems, but mostly I enjoy reading from the masters.

Here are some of my favourite poems for you to enjoy, sorted alphabetically by author, and then alphabetically by title.

This page will be regularly updated as I discover more to share. There’s a lot out there, and I’ve barely skimmed through the archives of even the most famous poets, let alone the lesser known ones. So expect to see more content here as I finally get around to reading all the stuff I still haven’t bothered to look at.

Robert Frost

Acquainted with the Night
After Apple-Picking
Desert Places
Fire and Ice
Fragmentary Blue
Meeting and Passing
Nothing Gold Can Stay
October
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Rudyard Kipling

Gunga Din
Hymn Before Action
If
The Ballad of East and West
The Female of the Species
The Gods of the Copybook Headings
The White Man’s Burden
To the Unknown Goddess
When Earth’s Last Picture is Painted

Andrew Marvell

A Garden (Written after the Civil Wars)
The Definition of Love
To His Coy Mistress

JRR Tolkien

All That is Gold Does Not Glitter
All Woods Must Fail
Journey’s End
Roads Go Ever On
Tinuviel
To the Bottle I Go

WB Yeats

An Irish Airman Foresees his Death
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
The Song of Wandering Aengus
When You are Old