Who are some of your favorite poets?

by | Mar 27, 2014 | Editorial

I am very eclectic and would say I have favorite poems more than favorite poets, but I am drawn to spiritual poetry above all, with love poems a close second.

Here is a partial list of poems I go back to again and again (in no particular order).
Abou Ben Adhem
James Henry Leigh Hunt
Crossing the Bar
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Eternity
William Blake
G-d Speaks to Each of Us
Rainer Maria Rilke
Gunga Din
Rudyard Kipling
I Dwell in Possibility
Emily Dickinson
I Never Saw a Moor
Emily Dickinson
I Remember
Thomas Hood
Invictus
William Earnest Healey
Let Not the Marriage of True Minds
William Shakespeare
“Our Revels Now are Ended”
William Shakespeare (The Tempest)
Psalm 23
King David
Success Is Counted Sweetest
Emily Dickinson
Surprised by Joy – Impatient as the Wind
William Wordsworth
The New Colossus
Emma Lazerus
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
The Secret Sits
Robert Frost
“The Seven Ages of Man”
William Shakespeare (As You Like It)
That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold
William Shakespeare
To Make a Prairie
Emily Dickinson
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Anne Bradstreet
Since There's No Help
Michael Drayton
“Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”
William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
Tyger, Tyger
William Blake

Here is a partial list of poems I go back to again and again (in no particular order).
Abou Ben Adhem
James Henry Leigh Hunt
Crossing the Bar
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Eternity
William Blake
G-d Speaks to Each of Us
Rainer Maria Rilke
Gunga Din
Rudyard Kipling
I Dwell in Possibility
Emily Dickinson
I Never Saw a Moor
Emily Dickinson
I Remember
Thomas Hood
Invictus
William Earnest Healey
Let Not the Marriage of True Minds
William Shakespeare
“Our Revels Now are Ended”
William Shakespeare (The Tempest)
Psalm 23
King David
Success Is Counted Sweetest
Emily Dickinson
Surprised by Joy – Impatient as the Wind
William Wordsworth
The New Colossus
Emma Lazerus
The Road Not Taken
Robert Frost
The Secret Sits
Robert Frost
“The Seven Ages of Man”
William Shakespeare (As You Like It)
That Time of Year Thou Mayst in Me Behold
William Shakespeare
To Make a Prairie
Emily Dickinson
To My Dear and Loving Husband
Anne Bradstreet
Since There's No Help
Michael Drayton
“Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow”
William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
Tyger, Tyger
William Blake