The 100 Best Poems of All Time

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Verses to move you, lines you'll love,
from old favorites to modern classics, here are...

THE WORDS WE LIVE BY
This perfect poetry companion puts your favorite poetry and poets from around the world at your fingertips. By including only the best-loved or best-known work of each poet, this portable treasury offers the opportunity for every reader to...

Revisit the Classics:

• "Sonnet 18 (Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day)" by William Shakespeare

• "The Raven" by Edgar Allan Poe

• "Harlem (Dream Deferred)" by Langston Hughes Encounter unfamiliar masterworks:

• "Moonlit Night" by Tu Fu

• "Poetry" by Pablo Neruda

• "The Panther" by Rainer Maria Rilke

Rediscover old favorites:

• "A Visit from St. Nicholas" by Clement Clarke Moore

• "This Land Is Your Land" by Woodie Guthrie

• "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Thayer

Carry this book wherever you go. Enjoy these poems in quiet solitude, recite them aloud with friends, and through them continue to learn something new about the world each day you read one of THE 100 BEST POEMS OF ALL TIME

IN THE 100 BEST POEMS OF ALL TIME,
YOU'LL FIND...
Lines to transport you to another world...

"Midway upon the journey of our life
I found myself within a forest dark..."
-from "Inferno" by Dante Alighieri

Expressions of passionate love...

"If I meet
you suddenly, I can't
speak-my tongue is broken;
a thin flame runs under
my skin..."
-from "He Is More than a Hero" by Sappho

Words that voice our innermost feelings...

"Where is Echo, beheld of no man,
Only heard on river and mere,
She whose beauty was more than human?
But where are the snows of yester-year?..."
-from "The Ballad of Ladies of the Past" by François Villon

Poems of beauty and bravery...

"She walks in beauty, like the night
Of cloudless climes and starry skies..."
-from "She Walks in Beauty" by Lord Byron

Words to touch and challenge you...

"What happens to a dream deferred?
Does it dry up
like a raisin in the sun?..."
-from "Harlem (Dream Deferred)" by Langston Hughes

And verses that will make you smile...

"It looked extremely rocky for the Mudville Nine that day;
The score stood two to four, with but an inning left to play...."
-from "Casey at the Bat" by Ernest Thayer