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Suggest me a classic poem to read

Suggest me a classic poem to read

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Nancy

The Iliad, and/or The Odyssey,

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Jeanne

The Highwayman. I love a song or poem that tells a story.

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Rohen

Beowulf

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Maham

Daffodils ,William wordsworth, the road not taken by Robert frost.

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Mona

Maham Quraishi, I love Daffodils

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Cinnamon

Sir Walter Scott, the Lady of the lake.

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Jacqueline

The Lady Of Shalott by Alfred, Lord Tennyson

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Rebecca

The water lily by henry lawson

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Dominic

Kubla Khan

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Mona

Love that poem

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Dominic

Down to a sunless sea 🙂

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Krissy

Wasteland by TS Eliot or Songs of Innocence by Blake are among my favourites

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Krissy

Technically Homers illiad and Odessy are poems too

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Dawn

The Raven, Edgar Allen Poe. I’m not a big poetry fan but I LOVE this ??

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Elena

luceafarul. I really like it.

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Jessica

Momentos – Charlotte Bronte

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Lyssa

Ozymandias- Percy Busshe Shelley
Isabella, or the Pot of Basil- John Keats
The Poison Tree- William Blake

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Tracy

The Raven is the greatest poem of all time ?

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Laura

That was going to be my answer as well

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Suroor

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (ST Coleridge). You can also get the audio version with Richard Burton–brilliant! The Lady of Shallot (Tennyson). Both are narrative poems. One of my favourite poets is WH Auden, especially As I Walked Out One Evening, and Lullaby.

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Janie

The Raven or Annabelle Lee!

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Emmie

The Stolen Child, WB Yeats

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Deborah

If by Rudger Kipling

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Mona

Love that poem

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Deborah

@Mona this is one of my faves

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Mona

@Deborah my second favorite poem after Daffodils

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Clay

Rhyme of the Ancient Mariner

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Moira

My Last Duchess – Robert Browning; Song (When I Am Dead, My Dearest) = Christina Rossetti

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Barbara

“Psalm of Life” Longfellow

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Chris

I love this, among many others, from one of my two favourite poets Heinrich Heine (the other being Kipling): Why The Roses Are So Pale. http://www.poetry-archive.com/h/why_the_roses_are_so_pale.html

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Darlene

“If” by Rudyard Kipling; “The Road not Taken” by Robert Frost; “Warning” by Jenny Joseph

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Martine

The Ancuent Mariner by Coleridge.
The Raven by Poe.

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Barb

Hound of Heaven.?

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Amber

The Raven, The Highwayman, or The Road Not Taken

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Chad

Listen to @Amber, she never led me to a bad poem!

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Tiffany

Classic as in Greek Classic or Classic as in Victor Hugo classic?

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Jacqueline

Odes of Immorality by\ Wordsworth or something by Tennyson.

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Pamela

Jabberwocky

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Pamela

Twas brillig, and and the slithy (something) outgrabe,or, the momewraths outgrabe lol, anyway, I love it

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Rod

The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot

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Genna

Sea Fever

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Claire

Anything by Robert Frost. But here’s one: https://www.robertfrost.org/stopping-by-woods-on-a-snowy-evening.jsp

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Iramildo

The RAVEN. Edgar Allan Poe.

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Ashley

Renaissance by Edna St. Vincent Millay

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Lucy

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Coleridge.

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Linda

The ones I know are already listed. The Raven, A dream within a dream, The Road Not taken, Illiad and Odyssey ( I had to translate parts of these from Latin!) and I had to memorize Paul Revere’s ride by Longfellow in Grade school. Let’s see Dante’s Inferno, She Walks in Beauty, If, Hiawathas Childhood by Longfellow. Did anyone besides me read Leonard Nimoy’s poetry? https://www.pinterest.com/pin/344455071485930937/

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Dolon

The Listeners by Walter De La Mare

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Tracy

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Rae

The Lady Of Shallot, the aforementioned The Highwayman, She Walks In Beauty, Nothing Gold Can Stay,

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Melinda

If by Rudyard Kipling, The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

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