Poetry Database · 175 poems · 56 poets
The greatest poems in English, and what they mean
The best classic poems in English, carefully chosen, each with the full text, 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
Robert Frost23 poems
William Shakespeare13 poems
William Wordsworth12 poems
Lord Byron10 poems
Alfred Tennyson9 poems
John Milton6 poems