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

An Anthology of some of the English-speaking World's Favourite Poetry

The most popular Irish poems written in English.

  • Oscar Wilde - "The Ballad of Reading Gaol"
  • Patrick Kavanagh - "Canal Bank Walk"
  • Patrick Kavanagh - "In Memory Of My Mother"
  • Patrick Kavanagh - "The One"
  • Patrick Kavanagh - "Stony Grey Soil"
  • Paul Muldoon - "A Collegelands Catechism"
  • Paul Muldoon - "Incantata"
  • Paul Muldoon - "Ma"
  • Paul Muldoon - "Pineapples and Pomegranates"
  • Paul Muldoon - "Wind and Tree"
  • Seamus Heaney - "Blackberry Picking"
  • Seamus Heaney - "Casualty"
  • Seamus Heaney - "Death of a Naturalist"
  • Seamus Heaney - "Digging"
  • Seamus Heaney - "Mid-Term Break"
  • Seamus Heaney - "The Railway Children"
  • WB Yeats - "Aedh Dreams of the Cloths of Heaven"
  • WB Yeats - "An Irish Airman forsees his Death"
  • WB Yeats - "Easter 1916"
  • WB Yeats - "He Wishes For the Cloths of Heaven"
  • WB Yeats - "The Lake Isle of Innisfree"
  • WB Yeats - "Leda and the Swan"
  • WB Yeats - "The Song of Wandering Aengus"
  • WB Yeats - "When You Are Old"
  • WB Yeats - "Sailing to Byzantium"
  • WB Yeats - "The Stolen Child"

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