I've only started reading poetry (as in, seriously reading it) this year. But already I have many favorites. Here are some of them, in no exact order:
- The Sea-Bell - Tolkien. Surreal and melancholy. Tolkien actually recorded this one, which is worth checking out--he reads in the old, beautiful style that we don't hear these days.
- Eugene Onegin - Pushkin.
- Jabberwocky - Carroll.
- Star-gazers - Wordsworth. Short, but full of interesting sentiments. 'Is nothing of that radiant pomp so good as we have here? / Or gives a thing but small delight that never can be dear?'
- Resolution and Independence - Wordsworth.
- Memories - Longfellow.
- The Raven - Poe. Basil Rathbone's recording is the best.
- EDIT: She Dwelt Among the Untrodden Ways - Wordsworth. Very bittersweet.
- Still Round the Corner - Tolkien.
- The Road Not Taken - Frost. My favorite poem from before I actually appreciated poetry.
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