In honor of National Poetry Writing Month, here’s Part 1 of a list of some very well-known poets and links to their poems:
Matthew Arnold: A Dream Can be found at The Island Bookstore
Charles Pierre Baudelaire: Le Cygne (The Swan) Can be found at Page & Palette
Bertolt Brecht: Contemplating Hell Can be found at City Lights Bookstore
William Blake: America, A Prophecy Can be found at Malaprops Bookstore
Emily Bronte: Death, that struck when I was most confiding Can be found at Park Road Books
Robert Browning: A Grammarian’s Funeral Shortly after the Revival of Learnin Can be found at Octavia Books
George Gordon Byron (Lord Byron): And Thou Art Dead, As Young and Fair Can be found at Undercover Books
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: A Christmas Carol Can be found at Parnassus Books
Emily Dickinson: A Bird Came Down Can be found at Fountain Books
John Donne: A Hymn To Christ At The Author’s Last Going Into Germany Can be found at That Bookstore in Blytheville
Federico Garcia Lorca: Ballad of the Moon Can be found at Alabama Booksmith
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