Poetry that started my love
Located below are some of the poems that really captured my mind. I would think of them months after learning them and the sticking power confirmed my enjoyment of the wisdom captured in each. A life goal is to be able to recite some of these from memory as that’s one of the best ways to feel poetry.
A Book of Verses underneath the Bough - Omar Khayaam
Andrea del Sarto - Robert Browning
Anecdote of the Jar - Wallace Stevens
Anlatamıyorum - Orhan Veli Kanik; English - I Can’t Explain
As I Walked Out One Evening - W. H. Auden
Caminante, No Hay Camino - Antonio Machado; English - Traveler, There is No Road
The Charge of the Light Brigade - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen
I Can Not Tell - Orhan Veli Kanik
Invictus - William Ernest Henley
Llama de amor viva - San Juan de la Cruz; English - Living Flame of Love
May You Always be the Darling of Fortune - Jane Miller
O Captain! My Captain! - Walt Whitman
On First Looking into Chapman’s Homer - John Keats
Ozymandias - Percy Bysshe Shelley
Self-pity by David Herbert Lawrence