My Favorite Poetry

W. B. Yeats

“What Then?”

“Gratitude to the Unknown Instructors”

“The Wild Swans at Coole”

“An Irish Airman Foresees his Death”

Dylan Thomas

“Do not go gentle into that good night”

“Being but men, we walked into the trees”

“A Letter to my Aunt, Discussing the Correct Approach to Modern Poetry”

“Light breaks where no sun shines”

Edgar Allan Poe

“Annabel Lee”

“The Raven”

“The Conquerer Worm”

“A Dream Within A Dream”

Other Favorite Poems:

  • “A Farewell to My Youth”, by France Preseren

  • “Father”, by Peter Semolic

  • Edgar Allan Poe

  • Du Fu

  • Elizabeth B. Browning

  • A. E.

  • Samuel Taylor Coleridge

  • Mikhail Lermontov

Poets I Have Read/Studied:

  • Li Bai

  • Rumi

  • William Wordsworth

  • William Soutar

  • William Blake

  • W. B. Yeats

  • John Keats

  • Percy Shelley

  • James Stephens

  • William Morris

  • Dylan Thomas

  • Robert Frost

  • Sylvia Plath

  • E. E. Cummings

  • Alexander Pushkin

  • Now Is the Time for Running, by Michael Williams

Some Favorite Books

  • Where the Mountain Meets the Moon, by Grace Lin

  • The Bartimaeus Sequence (The Amulet of Samarkand, The Golem’s Eye, Ptolemy’s Gate, The Ring of Solomon), by Jonathan Stroud

  • The Inheritance Cycle (Eragon, Eldest, Brisingr, Inheritance, Murtagh), by Christopher Paolini