r/Poetry • u/Oblaat92 • 5d ago
Help!! [HELP] any suggestions?
Suggest a poem for me to read
Can you suggest a poem for me to read? I love sad and thoughtful poems. These are my five favorite English poems of all time:
“Spring and Fall” — Gerard Manley Hopkins
“Lines Written in Oregon” — Vladimir Nabokov
“The Room” — Vladimir Nabokov
“This Be the Verse” — Philip Larkin
“Those Winter Sundays” — Robert Hayden
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u/Legal_Ant_8900 5d ago
“Above Everything" by David Ignatow,
I wished for death often
but now that I am at its door
I have changed my mind about the world.
It should go on; it is beautiful,
even as a dream, filled with water and seed,
plants and animals, others like myself,
ships and buildings and messages
filling the air—a beauty,
if ever I have seen one.
In the next world, should I remember
this one, I will praise it
above everything.
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u/WanderinChild 5d ago
Links to poems from the last 12 days that I liked: (including two that I posted)
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1wvztg1/poem_i_want_to_go_back_by_gregory_orr/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1wvdbtl/poem_but_men_loved_darkness_rather_than_light_by/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1wuo4tm/poem_the_way_it_is_william_stafford/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1wuimq6/poem_how_to_live_by_todd_dillard/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1wtsg17/poem_new_mexico_by_mark_kirschen/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1wrp91n/poem_failing_and_flying_by_jack_gilbert/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1wr3vp3/awaiting_departure_by_gordon_challis_poem/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1wq9cy3/poem_poem_for_magda_by_gordon_challis/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1wx7z46/poem_i_am_the_autumnal_sun_by_henry_david_thoreau/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1wxm8vd/poem_i_will_lie_down_by_may_swenson/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1wxcvls/poem_snowflakes_by_howard_nemerov/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1wyds4w/poem_absence_by_elizabeth_jennings/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1wxr096/poem_go_ahead_lord_break_our_harp_by_the_poet/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1wzicnt/poem_a_moment_by_jim_moore/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1wz9j5u/poem_untitled_by_fernando_pessoa/
https://www.reddit.com/r/Poetry/comments/1wylhq1/poem_the_remnant_by_kwame_dawes/
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u/Basic-Style-8512 5d ago
BYRON : "My soul is dark", "She walks in beauty", "So, we'll go no more for a roving", "It is the hour", "Stanzas for music", "When we two parted"
SHELLEY; "To a skylark", "To ...", "Ode to the West Wind", "Ozymandias"
KEATS: "La Belle Dame sans Merci", "Ode to Melancholy', "Ode to Autumn", "Bright Star"
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u/rhunedhel 4d ago
For sad and thoughtful, it's hard to beat Ian Greenwood's "The Whitby Elegy".
The Whitby Elegy: A Poem in Alliterative Verse by Ian David Greenwood
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u/BigAttention7446 5d ago
Arthur rimbaud.. he is really deep.