Basic information

Poetry - Wikipedia

Glossary of literary terms

Poetry through the ages

Frequently Asked Questions


Various poems and poets

Poetry Archive

Poemhunter.com - poems by name, author or occassion

Poets.org - poems by occasion

Classic Poetry Aloud - giving voice to the poetry of the past

Free poetry ebooks

Poetry 4 Kids


Poets on the Internet

Michael Rosen reads his poems.

Poets perform their own work

Poe's The Raven - interactive

Spokenverse - Poetry read by Tom O'Bedlam (YouTube channel)

A random and highly subjective collection of poems

You are welcome to have a look.

Arthur O'Shaughnessy - We Are the Music Makers

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - A Psalm of Life

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - The Children's Hour

Maya Angelou - Still I Rise

W.H. Auden - Funeral Blues (best-known for its recital in Four Weddings and a Funeral)

Roger McGough - The Trouble With Snowmen

William Blake - The Tyger

William Blake - Jerusalem (great BBC video for their Poetry Season here; it was actually England's official song for the EURO 2000)

George Gordon Lord Byron - We'll Go No More A-Roving (with another excellent BBC video)

George Gordon Lord Byron - She Walks in Beauty

Robert Frost - The Road Not Taken (video)

Robert Frost - Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening

Philip Larkin - This Be the Verse

Charles Bukowski - so you want to be a writer? (Ever thought about writing poetry? Still sure?)

Rudyard Kipling - If (voted as The Nation's Favourite Poem in a BBC 1995 opinion poll) (recited by Harvey Keitel)

Benjamin Zephaniah - Dis Poetry (very challenging, for the author's own interpretation see here)

William Wordsworth - I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud

Ella Wheeler Wilcox - The Winds of Fate (video)

R.L. Sharpe - A Bag of Tools (video)

W.B. Yeats - The Cloths of Heaven

William Ernest Henley - Invictus (video)

Countee Cullen - Yet Do I Marvel

Langston Hughes - I, Too, Sing America

W.B. Yeats - When You Are Old

Percy Bysshe Shelley - Ozymandias (video)

Sir Walter Raleigh - What is Our Life

Elizabeth Bishop - One Art
 
A. A. Milne - Disobedience

A. A. Milne - The Old Sailor

Carl Sandburg - Chicago

Carl Sandburg - Fog

Carl Sandburg - Grass

Ezra Pound - In a Station of the Metro

Siegfried Sassoon - The General

W.H. Auden - Musée des Beaux Arts

Oscar Wilde - The Harlot's House

Ernest Dowson - Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam

W.B. Yeats - Song of Wandering Aengus (sung by Jolie Holland)

W.B. Yeats - An Irish Airman Foresees His Death

William Wordsworth - Incident Characteristic of a Favourite Dog

Samuel Taylor Coleridge - Kubla Khan

William Blake - Little Lamb, Who Made Thee?

William Blake - I Heard an Angel

William Blake - London (song) [The Verve - History (lyrics)]

Sir Henry Newbolt - Vitai Lampada

Matthew Arnold - Dover Beach

Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Ulysses (video)

Laura Gilpin - The Two-Headed Calf

Linda Pastan - Marks

Ted Hughes - Esther's Tomcat

Lewis Carroll - The Walrus and the Carpenter

Pam Ayres - Oh, I Wish I'd Looked After My Teeth

e.e. cummings - somewhere i have never travelled,gladly beyond

e.e. cummings - o by the by

e.e. cummings - Grasshopper

Emily Dickinson - Because I Could Not Stop For Death (with analysis)

Andrew Marvell - To His Coy Mistress

Mervyn Peake - Lean Sideways on the Wind

Ernest L. Thayer - Casey at the Bat

John Donne - Song (Go and catch a falling star)

William Carlos Williams - The Red Wheelbarrow

William Carlos Williams - This is Just to Say

Allen Ginsberg - A Supermarket in California

Philip Larkin - Mr Bleaney

Edward Lear - The Owl and the Pussycat

John Hegley - On the Booze

Roald Dahl - Snow-White and the Seven Dwarfs

Roger McGough - 40 Love

Roger McGough - Goodbat Nightman

Roger McGough - Comeclose and Sleepnow

e. e. cummings - i carry your heart with me

Vikram Seth - Round and Round

Robert W. Service - The Shooting of Dan McGrew

Langston Hughes - Dream Deferred

Langston Hughes - Enemy

Edna St.Vincent Millay - Renascence

Matthew Arnold - Morality

Max Ehrmann - Desiderata

Maya Angelou - Phenomenal Woman

Edgar Albert Guest - My Creed

Arthur Hugh Clough - Say Not the Struggle

Rudyard Kipling - Ballad of East and West

Maddy Prior - Mother and Child (video)

Laurie Anderson - Another Day in America (video)

Langston Hughes - Life is Fine

Rudyard Kipling - A Ripple Song

Liesel Mueller - Curriculum Vitae

Thomas Hardy - Drummer Hodge

School poems

Billy Collins - The History Teacher

Shel Silverstein - Sick

Roger McGough - First Day at School

About the holocaust

Dan Pagis - written in pencil in the sealed railway car

Geoffrey Hill - September Song

Sylvia Plath - Daddy

Sylvia Plath - Lady Lazarus

Paul Celan - Deathfugue / Die Todesfuge


On poetry

Wendy Cope - The Uncertainty Of a Poet

Eve Merriam - How to Eat a Poem


Videos

Neil Gaiman - The Day the Saucers Came

Richard Wilbur - Transit

Robert Browning - My Last Duchess

Charles Bukowski - The Man With the Beautiful Eyes

Charles Bukowski - Born Into This

Charles Bukowski - The Tragedy of the Leaves

Billy Collins - Some Final Words

Billy Collins - Forgetfulness

John Masefield - Sea Fever (guitar arrangement)

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle - Sexagenarius Loquitur

Percy French - Abdul Abulbul Amir (song)

Charles Causley - Miller's End

Langston Hughes - Mother to Son

Billy Collins - The Art of Drowning

Rantanplan - Der Panther


More

Fry and Laurie - Suitable Poetry Sketch

An Analysis of 'The Road Not Taken'

Natalie Merchant sings old poems to life (album 'Leave Your Sleep')

Stephen Fry - The Ode Less Travelled - Unlocking the Poet Within

The Guardian - Berlin Bombed With Poetry (video) ('Bombing' in Warsaw, Guernica and Dubrovnik)

Poems as Short Films

Billy Collins Poetry Brought to Animated Life