Top 500 Poems
| # | Title | Poet |
| 101. |
A Crazed Girl
THAT crazed girl improvising her music.
Her poetry, dancing upon the shore, |
by William Butler Yeats on 1/1/2000 |
| 102. |
The Life That I Have
The life that I have
Is all that I have |
by Leo Marks on 1/1/2000 |
| 103. |
"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 |
| 104. |
He Wishes For The Cloths Of Heaven
HAD I the heavens' embroidered cloths,
Enwrought with golden and silver light, |
by William Butler Yeats on 1/1/2000 |
| 105. |
Life
LIFE, believe, is not a dream
So dark as sages say; |
by Charlotte Brontë on 1/1/2000 |
| 106. |
A Word to Husbands
To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup, |
by Ogden Nash on 1/1/2000 |
| 107. |
All You Who Sleep Tonight
All you who sleep tonight
Far from the ones you love, |
by Vikram Seth on 1/1/2000 |
| 108. |
Echo
Come to me in the silence of the night;
Come in the speaking silence of a dream; |
by Christina Georgina Rossetti on 1/1/2000 |
| 109. |
Those Winter Sundays
Sundays too my father got up early
And put his clothes on in the blueback cold, |
by Robert Hayden on 1/1/2000 |
| 110. |
Introduction To Poetry
I ask them to take a poem
and hold it up to the light |
by Billy Collins on 1/1/2000 |
| 111. |
A baby's view of abortion
I came as tomorrow
Swaddled in innocence |
by yoonoos peerbocus on 1/1/2000 |
| 112. |
Leisure
What is this life if, full of care,
We have no time to stand and stare. |
by William Henry Davies on 1/1/2000 |
| 113. |
Have A Nice Day
'Help, help, ' said a man. 'I'm drowning.'
'Hang on, ' said a man from the shore. |
by Spike Milligan on 1/1/2000 |
| 114. |
Sea Fever
I must go down to the seas again, to the lonely sea and the sky,
And all I ask is a tall ship and a star to steer her by, |
by John Masefield on 1/1/2000 |
| 115. |
Kubla Khan
In Xanadu did Kubla Khan
A stately pleasure-dome decree : |
by Samuel Taylor Coleridge on 1/1/2000 |
| 116. |
The Cremation Of Sam McGee
There are strange things done in the midnight sun
By the men who moil for gold; |
by Robert William Service on 1/1/2000 |
| 117. |
A Broken Appointment
You did not come,
And marching Time drew on, and wore me numb. |
by Thomas Hardy on 1/1/2000 |
| 118. |
A Wish
I ask not that my bed of death
From bands of greedy heirs be free; |
by Matthew Arnold on 1/1/2000 |
| 119. |
Ah Love
What is it with Love
That makes me |
by Ronberge (anno primo) on 1/1/2000 |
| 120. |
Ulysses
It little profits that an idle king,
By this still hearth, among these barren crags, |
by Alfred Lord Tennyson on 1/1/2000 |
| 121. |
The Mother
Abortions will not let you forget.
You remember the children you got that you did not get, |
by Gwendolyn Brooks on 1/1/2000 |
| 122. |
A Very Short Song
Once, when I was young and true,
Someone left me sad- |
by Dorothy Parker on 1/1/2000 |
| 123. |
Always Marry An April Girl
Praise the spells and bless the charms,
I found April in my arms. |
by Ogden Nash on 1/1/2000 |
| 124. |
The Fish
I caught a tremendous fish
and held him beside the boat |
by Elizabeth Bishop on 1/1/2000 |
| 125. |
Chocolate Cake
I love chocolate cake.
And when I was a boy |
by Michael Rosen on 1/1/2000 |