10 Must-Read Poems:

In no particular order:

W.H. Auden – “If I Could Tell You”

http://www.tfl.gov.uk/tfl/corporate/projectsandschemes/artmusicdesign/poems/poem.asp?ID=136

 

William Blake – “A Poison Tree”

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/a-poison-tree/

 

Linda Sigourney – “The Needle, Pen, and Sword”

http://www.theotherpages.org/poems/sigour01.html#6

 

Lord Byron – “She Walks in Beauty”

http://www.poetry-archive.com/b/she_walks_in_beauty.html

 

Gwendolyn Brooks – “The Ballad of Rudolph Reed”

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-ballad-of-rudolph-reed/

 

Emily Dickinson – “I Felt a Funeral in my Brain”

http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/english/melani/cs6/funeral.html

 

Ralph Waldo Emerson – “The Rhodora”

http://www.emersoncentral.com/poems/rhodora.htm

 

Robert Frost – “God’s Garden”

http://www.ketzle.com/frost/godsgarden.html

 

Elizabeth Bishop – “In the Waiting Room”

http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/in-the-waiting-room/

 

Joy Ladin – “In the Beginning”

http://www.terrain.org/poetry/23/ladin.htm