Emily Romrell

Live The Vibrant Life

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Poetry is truly one of the great loves of my life. There is something magical and powerful about words and how they can change you. Each word and phrase is significant in itself and is chosen with care, but the bigger part of it is synergy. The whole poem and message is much greater than its individual parts.  These entries are timeless:

Top 50 Poems on FamousPoemsandPoets.com:

1 Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou
2 Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein
3 If You Forget Me Pablo Neruda
4 I carry your heart with me E. E. Cummings
5 The Road Not Taken Robert Frost
6 A Dream Within A Dream Edgar Allan Poe
7 There is another sky Emily Dickinson
8 Life Is Fine Langston Hughes
9 A Girl Ezra Pound
10 Messy Room Shel Silverstein
11 To My Wife – With A Copy Of My Poems Oscar Wilde
12 Still I Rise Maya Angelou
13 Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes
14 To You Walt Whitman
15 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost
16 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth
17 The New Poetry Handbook Mark Strand
18 Funeral Blues W. H. Auden
19 Touched by An Angel Maya Angelou
20 The Raven Edgar Allan Poe
21 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Dylan Thomas
22 A Word to Husbands Ogden Nash
23 Bear In There Shel Silverstein
24 If those I loved were lost Emily Dickinson
25 Romance Edgar Allan Poe
26 Seeker Of Truth E. E. Cummings
27 I Taught Myself To Live Simply Anna Akhmatova
28 Walking Around Pablo Neruda
29 Digging Seamus Heaney
30 Brown Penny William Butler Yeats
31 The Broken Heart William Barnes
32 A Birthday Poem Ted Kooser
33 The Mother Gwendolyn Brooks
34 A Life Sylvia Plath
35 As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed Jack Prelutsky
36 I’m not Yours Sara Teasdale
37 And The Moon And The Stars And The World Charles Bukowski
38 America Allen Ginsberg
39 Those Winter Sundays Robert Hayden
40 All the World’s a Stage William Shakespeare
41 A Poison Tree William Blake
42 Daddy Sylvia Plath
43 Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face Jack Prelutsky
44 O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman
45 A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns
46 I know why the caged bird sings Maya Angelou
47 Fast rode the knight Stephen Crane
48 Happiness Raymond Carver
49 A Pretty a Day E. E. Cummings
50 Dream Deferred Langston Hughes

Top Poets listed in “Best Poems of the English Language by Harold Bloom”

  1. Geoffrey Chaucer
  2. William Dunbar
  3. Petrarchan Poetry
  4. Sir Thomas Wyatt
  5. Sir Philip Sidney
  6. Edmund Spenser
  7. Sir Walter Ralegh
  8. Chidiok Tichborne
  9. Robert Southwell
  10. Michael Drayton
  11. William Shakespeare
  12. Thomas Nashe
  13. Thomas Campion
  14. John Donne
  15. Ben Johnson
  16. Tom O’Bedlam’s Song
  17. John Cleveland
  18. James Shirley
  19. Robert Herrick
  20. Thomas Carew
  21. Richard Lovelace
  22. Sir John Suckling
  23. Edmund Waller
  24. Andrew Marvell
  25. George Herbert
  26. Richard Crashaw
  27. Henry Vaughn
  28. Thomas Traherne
  29. John Milton
  30. John Dryden
  31. John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester
  32. Alexander Pope
  33. Samuel Johnson
  34. William Collins
  35. Thomas Gray
  36. Christopher Smart
  37. William Cowper
  38. Robert Burns
  39. William Blake
  40. William Wordsworth
  41. Samuel Taylor Coleridge
  42. George Gordon, Lord Byron
  43. Percy Bysshe Shelley
  44. John Keats
  45. Walter Savage Landor
  46. Thomas Love Peacock
  47. John Clare
  48. George Darley
  49. Thomas Lovell Beddoes
  50. William Cullen Bryant
  51. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  52. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  53. Edgar Allan Poe
  54. Jones Very
  55. Henry David Thoreau
  56. Julia Ward Howe
  57. Walt Whitman
  58. Herman Melville
  59. Emily Dickinson
  60. Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  61. Edward Fitzgerald
  62. Robert Browning
  63. Matthew Arnold
  64. Gerard Manley Hopkins
  65. Dante Gabriel Rossetti
  66. Christina Rossetti
  67. William Morris
  68. Algernon Charles Swineburne
  69. Emily Bronte
  70. Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  71. Edward Lear
  72. Lewis Carroll
  73. George Meredith
  74. Rudyard Kipling
  75. William Butler Yeats
  76. Lionel Johnson
  77. Ernest Dowson
  78. Thomas Hardy
  79. Robert Bridges
  80. D. H. Lawrence
  81. A. E. Housman
  82. Wilfred Owen
  83. Edward Thomas
  84. Isaac Rosenberg
  85. Edwin Arlington Robinson
  86. Stephen Crane
  87. Trumbull Stickney
  88. Robert Frost
  89. Wallace Stevens
  90. William Carlos Williams
  91. Ezra Pound
  92. H. D. (Hilda DooLittle)
  93. Robinson Jeffers
  94. Marianne Moore
  95. T. S. (Thomas Stearns) Eliot
  96. John Crowe Ransom
  97. Conrad Aiken
  98. Edna St. Vincent Millay
  99. Louise Bogan
  100. John Brooks Wheelwright
  101. Leonie Adams
  102. Allen Tate
  103. Hart Crane
1 Phenomenal Woman Maya Angelou
2 Where the Sidewalk Ends Shel Silverstein
3 If You Forget Me Pablo Neruda
4 I carry your heart with me E. E. Cummings
5 The Road Not Taken Robert Frost
6 A Dream Within A Dream Edgar Allan Poe
7 There is another sky Emily Dickinson
8 Life Is Fine Langston Hughes
9 A Girl Ezra Pound
10 Messy Room Shel Silverstein
11 To My Wife – With A Copy Of My Poems Oscar Wilde
12 Still I Rise Maya Angelou
13 Let America Be America Again Langston Hughes
14 To You Walt Whitman
15 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening Robert Frost
16 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud William Wordsworth
17 The New Poetry Handbook Mark Strand
18 Funeral Blues W. H. Auden
19 Touched by An Angel Maya Angelou
20 The Raven Edgar Allan Poe
21 Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night Dylan Thomas
22 A Word to Husbands Ogden Nash
23 Bear In There Shel Silverstein
24 If those I loved were lost Emily Dickinson
25 Romance Edgar Allan Poe
26 Seeker Of Truth E. E. Cummings
27 I Taught Myself To Live Simply Anna Akhmatova
28 Walking Around Pablo Neruda
29 Digging Seamus Heaney
30 Brown Penny William Butler Yeats
31 The Broken Heart William Barnes
32 A Birthday Poem Ted Kooser
33 The Mother Gwendolyn Brooks
34 A Life Sylvia Plath
35 As Soon as Fred Gets Out of Bed Jack Prelutsky
36 I’m not Yours Sara Teasdale
37 And The Moon And The Stars And The World Charles Bukowski
38 America Allen Ginsberg
39 Those Winter Sundays Robert Hayden
40 All the World’s a Stage William Shakespeare
41 A Poison Tree William Blake
42 Daddy Sylvia Plath
43 Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face Jack Prelutsky
44 O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman
45 A Red, Red Rose Robert Burns
46 I know why the caged bird sings Maya Angelou
47 Fast rode the knight Stephen Crane
48 Happiness Raymond Carver
49 A Pretty a Day E. E. Cummings
50 Dream Deferred Langston Hughes

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