What’s your favorite poem written in the 19th century?

Ozymandias by Shelley…the 19th century produced quite a few amazing poets, it’s hard for me to pick just one poem. I think Ozymandias just always stuck with me because it so powerfully expresses the vanity of mankind.

Ode: Intimations of Immortality (William Wordsworth)

“There was a time when meadow, grove, and stream,
The earth, and every common sight,
To me did seem
Apparelled in celestial light,
The glory and the freshness of a dream.
It is not now as it hath been of yore;—
Turn wheresoe’er I may,
By night or day.
The things which I have seen I now can see no more.

…

—But there’s a Tree, of many, one,
A single field which I have looked upon,
Both of them speak of something that is gone;
The Pansy at my feet
Doth the same tale repeat:
Whither is fled the visionary gleam?
Where is it now, the glory and the dream?” 🙂

Tennyson, Ulysses

“Lines Written in Early Spring” by Wordsworth (written in 1798, so not quite 19th century)