Some Famous Poets and a Taste of Their Poetry

• William Shakespeare (April 23, 1564 - April 23, 1616)
  • The Complete Sonnets of William Shakespeare
  • Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day? Sonnet XVIII

   

• Mother Goose (first references - 1650, 1697)
  • The Real Mother Goose
  • Mother Goose Pages

   

• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
  • Longfellow Home National Historic Site
  • Poems
  • "Paul Revere's Ride"
  • "The Song of Hiawatha"

   

• Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)
  • "I'm Nobody! Who Are You?"
  • "To Make a Prairie"

   

• Robert Louis Stevenson (1850 -1894)
  • A Child's Garden of Verses
  • "The Swing"
  • "The Land of Counterpane"

   

• Laura E. Richards (1850-1943)
  • "Eletelephony"
  • "Skinny Mrs. Snipkin"

   

• Robert Service  (1873 - 1958)
  • "The Cremation of Sam McGee"
  • "The Shooting of Dan McGrew"

   

• Carl Sandburg (1878 - 1967)
  • "Fog"
  • "I Am the People"
  • "Arithmetic"
  • "Buffalo Dusk"

   

• Vachel Lindsay (1879 -1931)  The Vachel Lindsay Website was created by Springfield  (IL) high school students.
  • "The Moon is the North Wind's Cookie"
  • "Abraham Lincoln Walks at Midnight"
  • "The Ghost of the Buffaloes"
  • "The Flower-Fed Buffaloes"

   

• A. A. Milne (1882 -1956)
  • "Hoppity"
  • "The King's Breakfast"

   

• Langston Hughes   (1902-1967)
  • "Dreams"
  • "I, Too, Sing America"

   

• Myers, Walter Dean (1937 -      )
  • Harlem (Borrow this excellent book from the LMC)

   

• Marci Ridlon (1942-     )
  • "Cold"

Other Pages in this Resource

• Poetry: Page One

• Poetry Work Plan: How to Use This Site

• What is Poetry

• Some Types of Poetry

• Poetic Language

• Do-It-Yourself Poetry Center