Famous Poems

  Classic & World Literature

• “The Odyssey” (excerpted poems) – Homer

• “Divine Comedy” (Inferno, excerpts) – Dante Alighieri

• “Beowulf” – Anonymous

 English Romantic & Victorian Poetry

• “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” – William Wordsworth

• “Ode to a Nightingale” – John Keats

• “Sonnet 18: Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day?” – William Shakespeare

• “Dover Beach” – Matthew Arnold

🇺🇸 American Poetry

• “The Raven” – Edgar Allan Poe

• “Because I could not stop for Death” – Emily Dickinson

• “Leaves of Grass” (selected poems) – Walt Whitman

• “The Road Not Taken” – Robert Frost

Modern & Contemporary Poetry

• “The Waste Land” – T. S. Eliot

• “Still I Rise” – Maya Angelou

• “Howl” – Allen Ginsberg

• “If—” – Rudyard Kipling

Poetry from Other Cultures

• Ghazals – Mirza Ghalib

• Haiku (various) – Matsuo Bashō

• Poems – Rumi

• Rubaiyat – Omar Khayyám