List of Advanced English poem choices
Matthew Arnold “Dover Beach”
Dylan Thomas “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night”
W.H. Auden "Unknown Citizen”
Wilfred Owen “Dulce et Decorum Est”
A.E. Housman “To an Athlete Dying Young”
Li-Young Lee “The Gift”
Thomas Hardy “Hap”
David Mason “Song of the Powers”
ee cummings “anyone lived in a pretty how town”
Any sonnet by Shakespeare
Mathew Arnold “Dover Beach”
William Blake “The Tyger”
Louise Bogan “Women”
Emily Bronte “Shall earth no more inspire thee”
Rupert Brooke “The Soldier”
Elizabeth Barrett Browning “How do I love thee? Let me count the ways”
Robert Browning “My Last Duchess”
George Gordon, Lord Byron “She Walks in Beauty”
Thomas Campion “Follow they fair sun, unhappy shadow”
Lewis Carroll “Jabberwocky”
Lady Mary Chudleigh “To the Ladies”
Samuel Taylor Coleridge “Kubla Khan”
Hart Crane “My Grandmother’s Love Letter”
Countee Cullen “Yet Do I Marvel”
John Donne “The Good-Morrow”
“Song”
T.S. Eliot “Preludes”
Thomas Gray “Ode on the Death of a Favourite Cat, Drowned in a Tub of Goldfishes”
Thomas Hardy “Channel Firing”
Michael S. Harper “Grandfather”
Oliver Wendell Holmes “Old Ironsides”
Mary Howitt “The Spider and the Fly”
John Keats “When I have Fears That I May Cease to Be”
“La Belle Dame sans Merci: A Ballad”
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow “A Psalm of Life”
Richard Lovelace “To Althea, from Prison”
Christopher Marlowe “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love”
Andrew Marvell “To His Coy Mistress”
Edgar Lee Masters “Mrs. Kessler”
Herman Melville “The Maldive Shark”
Edna St. Vincent Millay “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why”
Marianne Moore “Poetry”
Marilyn Nelson “How I Discovered Poetry”
Edgar Allan Poe “Annabel Lee”
Ezra Pound “Envoi”
Sir Walter Ralegh “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd”
Carl Sandburg “Chicago”
Dylan Thomas “Fern Hill”
Phillis Wheatley “On Virtue”
William Wordsworth “The World Is Too Much with Us”
Sir Thomas Wyatt “They flee from me that sometime did me seek”