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HPL's choices of some of the most well-phrased poems of all time.

Before the "real" poets, don't miss one of today's most significant poems – OK, it's a song.  As always, songwriters are certainly our most socially significant poets.
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Christmas in the Trenches


Robert Browning
My Last Duchess
Emily Dickinson
There's a certain
slant of light
Rita Dove
Parsley
T.S. Eliot
The Journey
of the Magi

Robert Frost
Mending wall
Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush
Seamus Heaney
Electric Light
Anthony Hecht
Sarabande on attaining
the age of 77

John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Rudyard Kipling
If
Claude McKay
The
White House
Howard Nemerov
Landscape with
Figures

Wilfred Owen
Sonnet –
On... Artillery
Ezra Pound
Ballad of
the Goodly Fere
Carl Sandburg
Chicago
William Shakespeare
When in disgrace
with fortune

Wallace Stevens
Sunday Morning
Francis Thompson
The Hound Of Heaven
W.B. Yeats
The Second Coming