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Shakespeare: Sonnet 18

Shakespeare’s Sonnet 18 presents a timeless meditation on beauty and love. The poem famously argues that its subject's b...

Lyric Romantic Elizabethan Sonnet

9.9 Brilliant

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The Waste Land

T.S. Eliot’s “The Waste Land,” published in 1922, is a significant modernist poem exploring the disillusionment followin...

Lyric Modernist Classroom Poem

9.9 Brilliant

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Ozymandias

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s “Ozymandias” explores themes of ambition and decline through a dramatic narrative poem. The sonne...

Romantic Shelley Classroom Sonnet

9.7 Brilliant

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Ode on a Grecian Urn

John Keats’ “Ode on a Grecian Urn” explores themes of art, time, and immortality through a complex poem. The work examin...

Romantic Classroom Keats Ode

9.7 Brilliant

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To Autumn

“John Keats’ ‘To Autumn’ is a celebrated poem exploring the harvest season. It depicts autumn as a powerful, contemplati...

Nature Romantic Keats Ode

9.7 Brilliant

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The Second Coming

W.B. Yeats’ “The Second Coming” is a seminal modernist poem published in 1919. It explores themes of societal collapse a...

Lyric Modernist Classroom Poem

9.7 Brilliant

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Song of Myself

Walt Whitman’s “Song of Myself” is an expansive 1855 poem central to American literary history. It's notable for its inn...

Lyric Epic 19TH Century Poem

9.7 Brilliant

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Sailing to Byzantium

W.B. Yeats’ “Sailing to Byzantium” is a 1928 lyric poem examining themes of aging and artistic aspiration. The work cont...

Lyric Philosophical Modernist Poem

9.6 Brilliant

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Kubla Khan

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Kubla Khan explores themes of imagination and the subconscious through a vivid, dreamlike narr...

Lyric Romantic Classroom Poem

9.5 Brilliant

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The Tyger

William Blake’s “The Tyger” explores profound questions about creation and destruction through vivid imagery. Published...

Lyric Romantic Classroom Poem

9.4 Excellent

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Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey

William Wordsworth’s “Lines Written a Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey” explores the profound connection between individual...

Nature Lyric Romantic Poem

9.4 Excellent

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Auld Lang Syne

“Auld Lang Syne,” penned by Robert Burns in 1788, is a Scottish poem exploring themes of memory and friendship. Its endu...

Lyric 18TH Century Ceremonial Poem

9.4 Excellent

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Ode on Melancholy

John Keats’s “Ode on Melancholy,” written in 1819, explores the profound connection between sadness and aesthetic experi...

Lyric Romantic Keats Ode

9.2 Excellent

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I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” is a celebrated Romantic-era poem exploring memory and nature's infl...

Nature Lyric Romantic Poem

9.2 Excellent

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To a Mouse

Robert Burns’ “To a Mouse” is a poignant 18th-century poem written in Scots dialect. It recounts his encounter with a mo...

Lyric 18TH Century Classroom Poem

9.2 Excellent

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When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be

John Keats’ “When I Have Fears That I May Cease to Be” is a deeply personal Shakespearean sonnet exploring anxieties abo...

Lyric Romantic Sonnet Keats

9.1 Excellent

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When You Are Old

W.B. Yeats’ “When You Are Old” explores themes of enduring love and regret through a poignant poem written in 1891. It c...

Lyric Romantic Modernist Poem

9.0 Excellent

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i carry your heart with me

E. E. Cummings’ “i carry your heart with me” is a 1952 poem exploring profound and enduring love. Notable for its distin...

Lyric Romantic Modernist Poem

9.0 Excellent

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The Lamb

William Blake’s “The Lamb” explores themes of innocence and creation within his collection *Songs of Innocence*. Publish...

Lyric Romantic Classroom Poem

8.9 Great

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Having a Coke with You

"Having a Coke with You" is a 1960 poem by Frank O'Hara addressed to his partner Vincent Warren, notable as a joyful New...

Lyric Romantic Contemporary Poem

8.8 Great