Anthology of the English-speaking World's Best Poems
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American Poetry

A collection of some of the English-speaking World's Favourite Poetry

Girl Reading a Poem in New York

A selection of some of the best poems from the USA and Canada.

  • John Ashberry - And Ut Pictura Poesis Is Her Name
  • William Carlos Williams - Asphodel, That Greeny Flower
  • Emily Dickinson - Because I could not stop for death
  • Sylvia Plath - Daddy
  • Robert Frost - Directive
  • Adrienne Rich - Diving into the Wreck
  • Ezra Pound - Exile's Letter
  • John Gillespie Magee - High Flight
  • Allen Ginsberg - Howl
  • Maya Angelou - I Shall Rise
  • Robert Lowell - Memories of West Street and Lepke
  • Robert Hayden - Middle Passage
  • Elizabeth Bishop - One Art
  • Walt Whitman - Song of Myself
  • Robert Frost - Stopping by the Woods on a Snowy Evening
  • Hart Crane - The Broken Tower
  • TS Eliot - The Dry Salvages
  • Wallace Stevens - The Idea of Order at Key West
  • Theodore Roethke - The Lost Son
  • Michael Donaghy - The Present
  • Robert Lowell - The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket
  • Edgar Allen Poe - The Raven
  • Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken
  • James Dickey - The Sheep-Child
  • Wallace Stevens - The Snow Man
  • TS Eliot - The Waste Land
  • Robert Frost - Tree at my Window

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