Top 500 Poems
| # | Title | Poet |
| 76. |
I Cry
Sometimes when I'm alone
I Cry, |
by Tupac Shakur on 1/1/2000 |
| 77. |
I Am
I am: yet what I am none cares or knows,
My friends forsake me like a memory lost; |
by John Clare on 1/1/2000 |
| 78. |
Anthem For Doomed Youth
What passing-bells for these who die as cattle?
Only the monstrous anger of the guns. |
by Wilfred Owen on 1/1/2000 |
| 79. |
Dover Beach
The sea is calm to-night.
The tide is full, the moon lies fair |
by Matthew Arnold on 1/1/2000 |
| 80. |
First Love
I ne'er was struck before that hour
With love so sudden and so sweet, |
by John Clare on 1/1/2000 |
| 81. |
The Red Wheelbarrow
so much depends
upon |
by William Carlos Williams on 1/1/2000 |
| 82. |
A child said, What is the grass?
A child said, What is the grass? fetching it to me with full
hands; |
by Walt Whitman on 1/1/2000 |
| 83. |
Abou Ben Adhem
Abou Ben Adhem (may his tribe increase!)
Awoke one night from a deep dream of peace, |
by James Henry Leigh Hunt on 1/1/2000 |
| 84. |
When I Have Fears
When I have fears that I may cease to be |
by John Keats on 1/1/2000 |
| 85. |
As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed
As soon as Fred gets out of bed,
his underwear goes on his head. |
by Jack Prelutsky on 1/1/2000 |
| 86. |
Love After Love
The time will come
when, with elation |
by Derek Walcott on 1/1/2000 |
| 87. |
In Flanders Field
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row, |
by John McCrae on 1/1/2000 |
| 88. |
A Lover's Call XXVII
Where are you, my beloved? Are you in that little
Paradise, watering the flowers who look upon you |
by Khalil Gibran on 1/1/2000 |
| 89. |
When You Are Old
WHEN you are old and grey and full of sleep,
And nodding by the fire, take down this book, |
by William Butler Yeats on 1/1/2000 |
| 90. |
On His Blindness
When I consider how my light is spent
Ere half my days in this dark world and wide, |
by John Milton on 1/1/2000 |
| 91. |
Another Reason Why I Don't Keep A Gun In The House
The neighbors' dog will not stop barking.
He is barking the same high, rhythmic bark |
by Billy Collins on 1/1/2000 |
| 92. |
She Walks in Beauty
She walks in beauty like the night
of cloudless climes and starry skies; |
by George Gordon Byron on 1/1/2000 |
| 93. |
The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Did you hear about the rose that grew
from a crack in the concrete? |
by Tupac Shakur on 1/1/2000 |
| 94. |
A Crazed Girl
THAT crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, |
by William Butler Yeats on 1/1/2000 |
| 95. |
Rebecca
Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably
A trick that everyone abhors |
by Hilaire Belloc on 1/1/2000 |
| 96. |
I Thought of You
I thought of you and how you love this beauty,
And walking up the long beach all alone |
by Sara Teasdale on 1/1/2000 |
| 97. |
Friendship
I think awhile of Love, and while I think,
Love is to me a world, |
by Henry David Thoreau on 1/1/2000 |
| 98. |
My Papa's Waltz
The whiskey on your breath
Could make a small boy dizzy; |
by Theodore Roethke on 1/1/2000 |
| 99. |
The Life That I Have
The life that I have
Is all that I have |
by Leo Marks on 1/1/2000 |
| 100. |
"The Dreams of My Heart"
The dreams of my heart and my mind pass,
Nothing stays with me long, |
by Sara Teasdale on 1/1/2000 |