PoemofQuotes has been able to gather the top 10 most read classic poems. Some of this is due to search engine placement and others due to links from websites. Any way that you put it, visitors viewed the poems with hopes of reading greatness. As it turns out, each poem is seen as one of [...]

I’ve been fascinated with the concept of code poetry ever since I saw a blog dedicated to writing poetry using python. In short, code poetry is poetry with visual movement or delayed writing by using code. This makes for a more complex art form by bridging the gap between text and performance art, much like [...]

Although summer isn’t quite over for most students, I thought I would get a head start on welcoming everyone back to school (or even those who are still going, like those of you in year-round states or the southern hemisphere). Either way, here is a list of my top 10 back to school poems: 10. [...]

As we are just beginning the middle of summer I thought it would be appropriate to list my top 10 favorite summer poems. Although I’m not particularly an Emily Dickinson fan, there aren’t too many poems about summer out there (at least not classic poems). Also, I realize she has tons of fans, so she [...]

Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate. Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer’s lease hath all too short a date. Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimmed; And every fair from fair sometime declines, [...]

Go, lovely Rose– Tell her that wastes her time and me, That now she knows, When I resemble her to thee, How sweet and fair she seems to be. Tell her that ‘s young, And shuns to have her graces spied, That hadst thou sprung In deserts where no men abide, Thou must have uncommended [...]

Amarantha sweet and fair, Ah, braid no more that shining hair! As my curious hand or eye Hovering round thee, let it fly! Let it fly as unconfined As its calm ravisher the wind, Who hath left his darling, th’ East, To wanton o’er that spicy nest. Every tress must be confest, But neatly tangled [...]

I am not yours, not lost in you, Not lost, altho’ I long to be Lost as a candle lit at noon, Lost as a snow-flake in the sea. You love me, and I find you still A spirit beautiful and bright, Yet I am I, who long to be Lost as a light is [...]

Bright Star, would I were steadfast as thou art– Not in lone splendour hung aloft the night, And watching, with eternal lids apart, Like Nature’s patient sleepless Eremite, The moving waters at their priest-like task Of pure ablution round earth’s human shores, Or gazing on the new soft-fallen mask Of snow upon the mountains and [...]

‘Twas a new feeling – something more Than we had dared to own before, Which then we hid not; We saw it in each other’s eye, And wished, in every half-breathed sigh, To speak, but did not. She felt my lips’ impassioned touch – ‘Twas the first time I dared so much, And yet she [...]