Harlem, By Langston Hughes Harlem, By Langston Hughes This famous Harlem Renaissance poem was the inspiration for Lorraine Hansberry’s classic play A Raisin in the Sun.
The Death Of The Old Year, By Lord Alfred Tennyson The Death Of The Old Year, By Lord Alfred Tennyson Tennyson was an English poet often regarded as the chief representative of the Victorian age in poetry.
The Rose That Grew From Concrete, By Tupac Shakur The Rose That Grew From Concrete, By Tupac Shakur A modern classic, this poem is one of the most famous by controversial hip-hop artist, Tupac Shakur.
If You Forget Me, By Pablo Neruda If You Forget Me, By Pablo Neruda Pablo Neruda was a Nobel Prize winning Chilean poet-diplomat and politician.
All The World's A Stage, By William Shakespeare All The World's A Stage, By William Shakespeare William Shakespeare was a poet, dramatist, and actor. Shakespeare is possibly THE best known poet in the Western World and beyond.
Television, By Roald Dahl Television, By Roald Dahl Roald Dahl [1916-1990] was a writer, screen writer, poet, TV presenter and more.
Here I Love You, By Pablo Neruda Here I Love You, By Pablo Neruda From the 1940s on, Pablo’s works reflected the political struggle of the left and the socio-historical developments in South America.
To Autumn, By John Keats To Autumn, By John Keats One of the most famous poems about the season in all of English literature, Keats’s ‘To Autumn’ is also one of the finest autumn poems in the language
To Marie Louise (Shew), By Edgar Allan Poe To Marie Louise (Shew), By Edgar Allan Poe Written in 1847 for Marie Louise Shew, voluntary nurse of Poe’s wife Virginia.
A Child’s Nightmare, By Robert Graves A Child’s Nightmare, By Robert Graves If you wake up with a dark figure standing over you, and the figure keeps coming back again, then you know a little of what this poem presents to its readers.
