The Hundred Best English Poems by Various

By Mentor New York

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This wonderful collection of poems showcases the incredible talent of the some of the greatest poets in the world. These creative masterpieces are truly the best of the best, the crème de la crème, one hundred of the most awe inspiring and magnificent examples of poetic skill - works that will live forever in the annals of great literature. Embracing the most influential names in poetry we have all come to love, respect and revere, this exceptional compilation has a verse for every occasion, a theme for each day of existence and poetic instances for all of life's varied circumstances. Whether it's pondering Keats' assertion that "beauty is truth, truth beauty" or sharing Tennyson's anticipation of "crossing the bar", we can all in some way identify with the ideas and thoughts expressed in the works presented here. We can't help but be inspired and also entertained by the words of the superlative writers in this collection as they address the perils and wonders of the human condition. By enriching the background themes of the life journey in which we find ourselves, these poems form a chorus in the universal music of an existence in which we collectively form the melody. - Summary by Bruce Kachuk

Episode Date
On his Mistress, the Queen of Bohemia
Jul 17, 2023
Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
Jul 17, 2023
The Solitary Reaper
Jul 17, 2023
To a Highland Girl, at Inversneyde, upon Loch Lomond
Jul 17, 2023
Sonnet XXXVI. Earth has not anything
Jul 17, 2023
Sonnet XXXIII. The world is too much with us
Jul 17, 2023
She was a Phantom of delight
Jul 17, 2023
She dwelt among the untrodden ways
Jul 17, 2023
Song
Jul 17, 2023
On a Girdle
Jul 17, 2023
Crossing the Bar
Jul 17, 2023
Song from 'The Princess' 2
Jul 17, 2023
Song from 'The Princess' 1
Jul 17, 2023
Break, break, break
Jul 17, 2023
St. Agnes' Eve
Jul 17, 2023
Song from 'The Miller's Daughter'
Jul 17, 2023
Requiem
Jul 17, 2023
Stanzas
Jul 17, 2023
Song from 'Ajax and Ulysses'
Jul 17, 2023
To Night
Jul 17, 2023
To --
Jul 17, 2023
The Indian Serenade
Jul 17, 2023
Stanzas. Written in Dejection, near Naples
Jul 17, 2023
Chorus from 'Hellas'
Jul 17, 2023
To a Skylark
Jul 16, 2023
The Cloud
Jul 16, 2023
Ode to the West Wind
Jul 16, 2023
Song from 'Prometheus Unbound'
Jul 16, 2023
Song from 'Cymbeline'
Jul 16, 2023
Song from 'Much Ado about Nothing'
Jul 16, 2023
Song from 'Measure for Measure'
Jul 16, 2023
Song from 'The Tempest'
Jul 16, 2023
Sonnet CXVI. Let me not to the marriage
Jul 16, 2023
Sonnet CVI. When in the chronicle
Jul 16, 2023
Sonnet LXXIV. But be contented
Jul 16, 2023
Sonnet LXXIII. That time of year
Jul 16, 2023
Sonnet LXXI. No longer mourn
Jul 16, 2023
Sonnet LXVI. Tired with all these
Jul 16, 2023
Sonnet LX. Like as the waves
Jul 16, 2023
Sonnet XXXIII. Full many a glorious morning
Jul 16, 2023
Sonnet XXX. When to the sessions
Jul 16, 2023
Sonnet XVIII. Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Jul 16, 2023
Sonnet XVII. Who will believe my verse?
Jul 16, 2023
A Wish
Jul 16, 2023
The Night before his Death
Jul 16, 2023
Ode on Solitude
Jul 16, 2023
The Land o' the Leal
Jul 16, 2023
On his Blindness
Jul 16, 2023
Lycidas
Jul 16, 2023
Il Penseroso
Jul 16, 2023
L'Allegro
Jul 16, 2023
On the Morning of Christ's Nativity
Jul 16, 2023
To Lucasta. Going to the Wars
Jul 16, 2023
The Maid's Lament
Jul 16, 2023
The Old Familiar Faces
Jul 16, 2023
Sonnet
Jul 16, 2023
La Belle Dame sans Merci
Jul 16, 2023
Ode on Melancholy
Jul 16, 2023
To Autumn
Jul 16, 2023
Ode on a Grecian Urn
Jul 16, 2023
Ode to a Nightingale
Jul 16, 2023
On first looking into Chapman's Homer
Jul 16, 2023
To Celia
Jul 16, 2023
I Remember, I Remember
Jul 16, 2023
The Bridge of Sighs
Jul 16, 2023
The Death Bed
Jul 16, 2023
To Anthea, who may command him anything
Jul 16, 2023
To the Virgins, to make much of Time
Jul 16, 2023
Virtue
Jul 16, 2023
I. M. Margaritae Sorori
Jul 16, 2023
To R. T. H. B.
Jul 16, 2023
Elegy written in a Country Church-yard
Jul 16, 2023
Song
Jul 16, 2023
A Song for St. Cecilia's Day, 1687
Jul 16, 2023
Song
Jul 16, 2023
A Wet Sheet and a Flowing Sea
Jul 16, 2023
To a Young Lady
Jul 16, 2023
Written in the Year 1746
Jul 16, 2023
Youth and Age
Jul 16, 2023
Say not the Struggle Nought Availeth
Jul 16, 2023
Hohenlinden
Jul 16, 2023
Song from 'Don Juan'
Jul 16, 2023
Song from 'The Corsair'
Jul 16, 2023
Oh! Snatched Away in Beauty's Bloom
Jul 16, 2023
She Walks in Beauty
Jul 16, 2023
Mary Morison
Jul 16, 2023
A Red, Red Rose
Jul 16, 2023
Ye Flowery Banks
Jul 16, 2023
Ae Fond Kiss
Jul 16, 2023
John Anderson my Jo
Jul 16, 2023
Of a' the Airts
Jul 16, 2023
The Silver Tassie
Jul 16, 2023
Epilogue
Jul 16, 2023
Home-Thoughts, from the Sea
Jul 16, 2023
The Lost Mistress
Jul 16, 2023
Song from 'Pippa Passes' 2
Jul 16, 2023
Song from 'Pippa Passes' 1
Jul 15, 2023
Life
Jul 15, 2023
The Forsaken Merman
Jul 15, 2023
Madrigal
Jul 15, 2023
Prefatory Note
Jul 15, 2023