Favourite Poems

A personal anthology - poems that I keep coming back to, or those that keep coming back to me.

• Ode – Arthur O’Shaughnessy
• Ozymandias – Percy Bysshe Shelley – also read in the workshop
• The Road Not Taken – Robert Frost
• Daffodils – William Wordsworth
• Auguries of Innocence – William Blake
• Night-Song in the Jungle – Rudyard Kipling
• Kubla Khan (or, a Vision in a Dream, a Fragment) – Samuel Taylor Coleridge – also read in the workshop
• Cologne – Samuel Taylor Coleridge
• The Lotos-eaters – Alfred, Lord Tennyson
• Ulysses – Alfred, Lord Tennyson – also read in the workshop
• Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening – Robert Frost

• The Fitful Alternations of the Rain – Percy Bysshe Shelley
• Disillusionment of Ten O’Clock – Wallace Stevens
• Litany – Billy Collins
• On Turning Ten – Billy Collins
• Marginalia – Billy Collins
• Lying in a Hammock at William Duffy’s Farm in Pine Island, Minnesota – James Wright
• Odes, Book 3, Verse 29: Happy the Man – Horace, translated by John Dryden
• For This Is Wisdom – Laurence Hope
• Postcard – Margaret Atwood
• The World Is Too Much With Us – William Wordsworth
• All Things by Immortal Power – Francis Thompson
• The Listeners – Walter De La Mare
• If— – Rudyard Kipling
• The Buddha at Kamakura – Rudyard Kipling
• Inversnaid – Gerard Manley Hopkins
• Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird – Wallace Stevens
• Epitaph to a Dog – Lord Byron
• Leisure – William Henry Davies
• Song, from Pippa Passes – Robert Browning
• A Budget of Paradoxes – Augustus De Morgan
• She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways – William Wordsworth – also read in the workshop
• Aedh Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven – William Butler Yeats – also read in the workshop