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Famous Poetry

On this page you will find a collection of famous poetry. You will find examples of many different styles and themes of poetry. The more you read and listen to poems, the better you will become at interpreting their meanings.

Carl Sandburg Langston Hughes
 * Child Moon
 * Jazz Fantasia
 * Let America Be America Again
 * Dreams

Maya Angelou Walt Whitman
 * Passing Time
 * Life Doesn't Frighten Me
 * O Captain! My Captain!
 * Beat! Beat! Drums!

Emily Dickenson
 * The Daisy Follows Soft The Sun
 * The Murmur of a Bee

Robert Frost
 * The Road Not Taken
 * Birches

T.S. Elliot
 * The Naming of Cats
 * Hippopotamus

Shel Silverstein
 * The Missing Piece
 * One Inch Tall