Poetry Database · 173 poems · 53 poets
The greatest poems in history, and what they mean
The complete text of history’s best-loved classic poems, each with a plain summary and an original analysis.
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“I met a traveller from an antique land”
Percy Bysshe ShelleyThe Road Not Taken
“Two roads diverged in a yellow wood”
Robert FrostDulce et Decorum Est
“Bent double, like old beggars under sacks”
Wilfred OwenSonnet 18
“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?”
William ShakespeareThe Tyger
“Tyger Tyger, burning bright”
William BlakeIn Flanders Fields
“In Flanders fields the poppies blow”
John McCrae