I don’t get the chance to read much poetry these days, but I used to read poetry a lot, and over the years, certain poems have resonated with me time and time again (I even created a song from one of them). Here are my top 10 favorite poems:
- The Darkling Thrush (Thomas Hardy)
- Fire and Ice (Robert Frost)
- Howl (Allen Ginsberg)
- Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now (A. E. Housman)
- My Love in Her Attire (Anonymous)
- The Owls (Charles Baudelaire; translated by Edna St. Vincent Millay)
- Sometime during eternity (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
- Terrible (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)
- This Is Just to Say (William Carlos Williams)
- The world is a beautiful place (Lawrence Ferlinghetti)