100 Best-Loved Poems Book

Whoa, Nelly what a surprise. This book was supposed to be just a little something to bump up my Amazon to $25 to get free shipping right? I keep a wish list full of Dover Thrift around for just that purpose and selected this one cos during the busy holidays it's nice to have books lying around to just read over any 5 minutes that may be free. For less then $2 I figured this would do because of only one poem I noticed that it contained: Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas. My people were Welsh once upon a time, and I was delighted to find that out, however recent. Anyway, this book is quite a gem! No poem contain therrein seems superfluous. All were indeed carefully selected and remind me how much I love poetry. (Not modern poetry, yuck.)This is the World's best folks. Wordsworth, TEnnyson, Burns, Poe(God rest him), Dickison, Shakespeare and even a couple by Sandburg. (FOG was the first poem I ever memorized, me and my entire 3rd grade class.)Oh, it even has that one about Lincoln that makes we feel all weepy eyed, "Captain, My Captain!". I still remember my teacher reading it to us with an unabashed tear rolling down her face. Powerful stuff is good poetry.

Beautiful and moving, highly recommended!

Success, perhaps I'm not such a Neanderthal after all. Once I got to the mid-19th Century I started reading a few poems I liked. I also read some poems that sparked a deeper like and interest, I'll call them really good. I even read poems that I want to think more about and reread, I'll call them great. I never would have thought it possible but I have found I'm the kind of person that actually likes poetry, at least some poetry.

For so little a price, it gives so many prized distillations from brilliant minds.



From the superb Ozymandias (Shelley), the sharp I'm Nobody! Who Are You? (Dickinson), to the charmingly fitting Requiem (Stevenson) or If- (Kipling), and concluded emphatically by Thomas' Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, this neat collection has inspired me to revisit and explore other poems, and to just soak in the wit, wisdom and beauty emanating from its unassuming pages.



Pickings:

Sonnet XVIII William Shakespeare

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 to short a date:

Sometimes too hot the eye of heaven shines,

And often is his gold complexion dimm'd;

And every fair from fair sometime declines,

By chance or nature's changing course untrimm'd;

But thy eternal summer shall not fade,

Nor lose possession of that fair thou owe'st;

Nor shall Death brag thou wander'st in his shade,

When in eternal lines to time thou grow'st:

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,

So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.



Because I Could Not Stop for Death Emily Dickinson

Because I could not stop for Death,

He kindly stopped for me;

The carriage held but just ourselves

And Immortality.



We slowly drove, he knew no haste,

And I had put away

My labor, and my leisure too,

For his civility.



We passed the school where children played,

Their lessons scarcely done;

We passed the field of gazing grain,

We passed the setting sun.



We paused before a house that seemed

A swelling of the ground;

The roof was scarcely visible,

The cornice but a mound.



Since then 't is centuries, but each

Feels shorter than the day

I first surmised the horses' heads

Were toward eternity.

This is a good selection of poems. It tends to have the classics that people should be familiar with and does have some that my Anthology of American Poetry doesn't have, because it includes British poets. It's worth owning. Then you can read "Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas to your boy, Dylan, at bedtime. This is a good selection of poems. It tends to have the classics that people should be familiar with and does have some that my Anthology of American Poetry doesn't have, because it includes British poets. It's worth owning. Then you can read "Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas to your boy, Dylan, at bedtime.

Some great pieces: So We'll Go No More a Roving/Byron, O Captain! My Captain!/Whitman, The Village Blacksmith/Longfellow, Jabberwocky/Carroll and what may well be my favorite piece of poetry, The Emperor of Ice Cream/Stevens.

Would like to have had a wider variety, but overall a bettter than average, affordable anthology.

I loved this book!! So many beautiful poems that everyone must read. Rudyard kipling's poems were great! Edgar Alan Poe's the Raven, Shakespeare's sonnets, and Robert Frost's Stopping by woods on a snowy evening are just a few of the great poems compiled in this book. Excellent I loved this book!! So many beautiful poems that everyone must read. Rudyard kipling's poems were great! Edgar Alan Poe's the Raven, Shakespeare's sonnets, and Robert Frost's Stopping by woods on a snowy evening are just a few of the great poems compiled in this book. Excellent

A magnificent collection of poems from some of the best poets of all time.

Note: Read for school
Great collection of poems,very enjoyable read.

I rated this a four because it was a really interesting book with great poems. If you like poem books this would be perfect for you. One of my favorite poems was the passionate Shepard to his love. I loved reading these because they also didn't have to hard of words to read. If one of your favorite poets are in this book. Read to find out. I rated this a four because it was a really interesting book with great poems. If you like poem books this would be perfect for you. One of my favorite poems was the passionate Shepard to his love. I loved reading these because they also didn't have to hard of words to read. If one of your favorite poets are in this book. Read to find out.

I spent a restful rainy Sunday evening savoring the wonderful words, phrases and lyrical joy of reading this marvelous compilation of poetry.



Beginning with The Ballad of Lord Randal through Dylan Thomas' Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, I was transformed to a world where writing was concise, crisp, clear and every word was laden with meaning.



As the rain splashed on the sky light in the living room and the thunder clapped, I sat in an overstuffed chair, cup of tea in hand and delighted in the images that gently rolled through my mind. Finding some of these poems anew was as cleansing as the spring rain.



For instance, as I read A.E. Housman's To an Athlete Dying Young, I saw Isak Dinesen, portrayed by Meryl Streep, as she stands at the graveside of Dennys Finch Hatton in the movie Out of Africa.



The time you won your town the race

We chaired you through the market-place;

Man and boy stood cheering by,

And home we brought you shoulder-high.



To-day, the road all runners come,

Shoulder-high we bring you home,

And set you at your threshold down,

Townsman of a stiller town.



Smart lad, to slip betimes away

From fields were glory does not stay

And early though the laurel grows

It withers quicker than the rose.



Eyes the shady night has shut

Cannot see the record cut,

And silence sounds no worse than cheers

After earth has stopped the ears:



Now you will not swell the rout

Of lads that wore their honours out,

Runners whom renown outran

And the name died before the man.



So set, before its echoes fade,

The fleet foot on the sill of shade,

And hold to the low lintel up

The still-defended challenge-cup.



And round that early-laurelled head

Will flock to gaze the strengthless dead,

And find unwithered on its curls

The garland briefer than a girl's. ...

This book should have read '100 best loved CLASSIC poems.'



While there are many great love poems by poets like edgar allen poe, shakespeare, and so on (dating back the last 500-600 years), there are no contemporary love poems in this book.



This isn't to say I didn't enjoy the book or the poetry, just that the title is misleading. It's nice to study classic poetry, but none of my favorites were in this book!

Title:100 Best-Loved Poems Jeremiah Gay

Editor: Philip Smith Book Review #5



This book was really cool because it holds poems from the 1800th century to now and it's cool to how people felt and and turned it into something to explain their feeling with rhymes. Themes, "Whose woods these are I think I know, His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near, Between the woods Title:100 Best-Loved Poems Jeremiah Gay

Editor: Philip Smith Book Review #5



This book was really cool because it holds poems from the 1800th century to now and it's cool to how people felt and and turned it into something to explain their feeling with rhymes. Themes, "Whose woods these are I think I know, His house is in the village though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. My little horse must think it queer To stop without a farmhouse near, Between the woods and the frozen lake, The darkest evening of the year. He gives his harness bells a shake, To ask if there is some mistake. The only other sound's the sweep Of easy wind and downy flake. The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep." -Robert Frost. The theme is the woods and the village, but this is a Unique poem because how detailed he went into describing the woods the landscape and what his horse does.



Rhymes,"So we'll go no more a roving, So late at night, Though the heart be still loving, and the moon be still as bright. For the sword outwears its sheath, And the souls wears out the breast, And the heart must pause to breathe, And love itself have rest. Though the night was made for loving, And the day returns too soon, Yet we'll go no more a roving by the light of the moon."-Lord Byron. Poems are built of rhymes and some t are really long and some are this size(small) but they all mean something and this one seems to me that love always come before what you enjoy or your job.

This book was a great compilation of poetry from the 14th to the mid-20th century. It contained many of the most famous poems ever written. There were so many beautiful poems that I am going to want to re-read. The language and imagery touched me deeply. Some of my favorite poems were written by John Milton, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allen Poe (how devastatingly sad is "The Raven!"), and Emily Dickinson.



This is a great book to get acquainted with a variety of poets This book was a great compilation of poetry from the 14th to the mid-20th century. It contained many of the most famous poems ever written. There were so many beautiful poems that I am going to want to re-read. The language and imagery touched me deeply. Some of my favorite poems were written by John Milton, William Cullen Bryant, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Edgar Allen Poe (how devastatingly sad is "The Raven!"), and Emily Dickinson.



This is a great book to get acquainted with a variety of poets and poetry styles.

How do you rate this? These are the most famous, widely read, memorized for dramatic recitation sort of poems. Inspirational and high toned, full of drama. All of the old bards of traditional verse. A little tiring at times, all that splendor. Wordsworth, Longfellow, Browning, Keats, Blake, Byron, Coleridge, Shelley, Emerson, Kipling, Sandburg, Pound, Auden, Thomas, Poe, and many others.

A slim volume. The editor explains that shorter poems were selected because of size constraints.

Emily Dickinson stands out like a breath of fresh air.

Good overview or introduction to what was considered good poetry. Rudyard Kipling is here, but not Robert Service.

I did not like this book. I get bored easily so this book was not fitting. I just read it for the 40 book challenge. I wouldn't recommend this book unless you love poetry. This book was just poems and I can't remember cause I was sooooooooooooooo bored. I did not like this book tbh. I get bored easily so this book was not fitting. I just read it for the 40 book challenge. I wouldn't recommend this book unless you love poetry. This book was just poems and I can't remember cause I was sooooooooooooooo bored.

A good collection of poems (though I'm hardly in the position to know if these are the "best-loved"), but I wish the formatting and overall book design was better. A good collection of poems (though I'm hardly in the position to know if these are the "best-loved"), but I wish the formatting and overall book design was better.

My favorite poem is The Raven.

This collection of poems is okay, but I can't say that it includes my best-loved poems. Some are there, to be sure. Emily Dickinson's I'm Nobody! Who Are You? and Robert Frost's Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening are two of my all-time favs, and I lit up like a Christmas tree when I came across them. They never fail to make me happy. And I love Whitman, so it was great to see I Hear America Singing and Oh Captain! My Captain! (which never fails to make me cry like a baby). Reading this collection also brought back memories of talking about poetry in school. William Blake's The Tyger, A.E. Houseman's To An Athlete Dying Young, and Robert Herrick's To The Virgins, to Make Much of Time especially left me feeling very nostalgic.



Also, this collection made me fall in love with Percy Bysshe Shelley's Ozymandias and Rudyard Kipling's If. I'd read them ages ago, but this time they really spoke to me. And I found, for the first time, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's The Village Blacksmith, an ode to an ordinary man, that I simply adore. For these poems especially, I'm glad I read this collection.



More than anything, reading this collection made me want to collect all of my favorite poems in one place so I can leaf through the volume whenever my soul needs a boost.

This is another volume in the Dover Thrift Editions series. The book is quite an inexpensive way to get a collection of poems that is likely to include at least one or two you've read and loved.



The poems are arranged in chronological order, starting with a couple of ballads, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Christopher Marlowe and some Shakespeare sonnets. Near the end we have Wilfred Owen, e. e. cummings, W. H. Auden and Dylan Thomas.



If you have lead a poetry-deprived life, this book will expose you to a goo This is another volume in the Dover Thrift Editions series. The book is quite an inexpensive way to get a collection of poems that is likely to include at least one or two you've read and loved.



The poems are arranged in chronological order, starting with a couple of ballads, Sir Thomas Wyatt, Christopher Marlowe and some Shakespeare sonnets. Near the end we have Wilfred Owen, e. e. cummings, W. H. Auden and Dylan Thomas.



If you have lead a poetry-deprived life, this book will expose you to a good variety of poets and allow you to find new favorites. This book would also make a wonderful gift for a teacher or a young person.



I found many poems that I had read so long ago I had forgotten them entirely until reading them in this book. So many familiar and beautiful lines:



"'My name is Ozymandias, king of kings:/Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!'/Nothing beside remains..."



"She walks in beauty, like the night/of cloudless climes and starry skies...."



"Under a spreading chestnut tree/The village smithy stands..."



"I'm nobody! Who are you?/Are you nobody, too..."



"so much depends/upon/a red wheel/barrow..."



This book is a small treasure and I hope many more people will discover it and sample the joys within.

Christopher Marlowe has me awed about his poetry. He was killed at a very young age of 29 which I shall be soon. So his poetry felt terribly personal to me. Also, I am a big Shakespeare buff.

Marlowe in a deliciously lovely poem titled The Passionate Shepherd to his Love asks her in a simple line to,

Come live with me and be my Love

It sounds almost ethereal and enchanting in a voice that I read in and imagine to be Marlowe's. A deep, resonating baritone which when heard melts even the most harde Christopher Marlowe has me awed about his poetry. He was killed at a very young age of 29 which I shall be soon. So his poetry felt terribly personal to me. Also, I am a big Shakespeare buff.

Marlowe in a deliciously lovely poem titled The Passionate Shepherd to his Love asks her in a simple line to,

Come live with me and be my Love

It sounds almost ethereal and enchanting in a voice that I read in and imagine to be Marlowe's. A deep, resonating baritone which when heard melts even the most hardened hearts. I particularly love the simple imagery he describes about sitting on rocks and seeing the shepherds feed their flocks. I am so very deeply smitten with Marlowe's words.



Also, this collection has a lovely composition of ballads. Poems from most of my favorite poets like Cummings, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Yeats, Pound, Marianne Moore, Dylan Thomas have been included and for this reason, this book is definitely a little special. Nothing like reading Dylan Thomas on a rainy night.

Can I be glad it's over? It took me almost three weeks to sludge through these 93 pages! Poetry is HARD. And I just can't grasp most of it. Poor poets, they're doing what they can't help but do & nobody understands. It is so deeply personal; I would never feel comfortable recommending a specific book/ poet to anyone. I would suggest seeking out a favorite musical artist or author & seeing if they have ever written any. To dive into some early 18th & 19th century is as near to torture as I care t Can I be glad it's over? It took me almost three weeks to sludge through these 93 pages! Poetry is HARD. And I just can't grasp most of it. Poor poets, they're doing what they can't help but do & nobody understands. It is so deeply personal; I would never feel comfortable recommending a specific book/ poet to anyone. I would suggest seeking out a favorite musical artist or author & seeing if they have ever written any. To dive into some early 18th & 19th century is as near to torture as I care to be. There is poetry in lyrics, in the Bible, in certain conversations. Don't judge all poetry by what you were forced to read in high school. Here's my favorite of the selection:



First Fig by Edna St. Vincent Milay



My candle burns at both ends;

It will not last the night;

But ah, my foes and oh, my friends--

It gives a lovely light.

Useful for people like me who are trying to catch up after a lifetime's ignorance of poetry, but beware: most of this book is drawn from before the twentieth century. It contains not a single living poet! You might come away with the impression that poetry is no longer written, and a very distorted idea of what today passes for 'good' poetry. Nonetheless I got pleasure from discovering where some familiar lines come from:



'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' (Shakespeare)



'How do I love thee? Useful for people like me who are trying to catch up after a lifetime's ignorance of poetry, but beware: most of this book is drawn from before the twentieth century. It contains not a single living poet! You might come away with the impression that poetry is no longer written, and a very distorted idea of what today passes for 'good' poetry. Nonetheless I got pleasure from discovering where some familiar lines come from:



'Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?' (Shakespeare)



'How do I love thee? Let me count the ways' (Browning)



'"Who touches a hair of yon gray head / Dies like a dog! March on!" he said' (Frietchie)



Other favourites include 'Ozymandias' by Shelley, 'Dover Beach' by Arnold, 'Jaberwocky' by Carroll, 'If' by Kipling, 'The Road Not Taken' by Frost.

This economical collection of literature class favorites only cost me $1 for a new copy. Many well-known and classic poems from 50-60 authors are presented in a chronological arrangement. Each author is introduced with a 1-3 sentence sketch. Long poems are excluded by the editor, so you won't find "Hiawatha" or "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" here, but you will find such favorites as Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," Robert Burns' "To a Mouse This economical collection of literature class favorites only cost me $1 for a new copy. Many well-known and classic poems from 50-60 authors are presented in a chronological arrangement. Each author is introduced with a 1-3 sentence sketch. Long poems are excluded by the editor, so you won't find "Hiawatha" or "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" here, but you will find such favorites as Thomas Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," Robert Burns' "To a Mouse," Dylan Thomas' "Do Not Go Gentle into That Night," and William Shakespeare's "Sonnet XVIII." I don't read poetry often, but I found this collection inspiring and almost felt like jotting a few lines myself.

☺I truly enjoy and appreciate this little book of poetry. My second time reading this lovely collection, and for some reason Rudyard Kipling's Gunga Din keeps making me cry. I don't know why. I'm not in the military and I've never lost anyone I'm close to from fighting in a war. Yet, I get shaken up by this poem and cry.



I loved Emily Dickenson's poem "I'm nobody, who are you". Makes me wonder what she'd think of all our social media (FB, twitter, Instagram, tiktok, etc) and how we go about blar ☺I truly enjoy and appreciate this little book of poetry. My second time reading this lovely collection, and for some reason Rudyard Kipling's Gunga Din keeps making me cry. I don't know why. I'm not in the military and I've never lost anyone I'm close to from fighting in a war. Yet, I get shaken up by this poem and cry.



I loved Emily Dickenson's poem "I'm nobody, who are you". Makes me wonder what she'd think of all our social media (FB, twitter, Instagram, tiktok, etc) and how we go about blaring our opinions to the world. Methinks she'd have some great material for another great poem. 😉😄



And I definitely recommend Dover Thrift Editions! They're super cheap and there's so many of the classics to pick from! terrific resource!

Unlike many other anthologies, this book really does contain the 100 best-loved poems. These are some of the poems that you grew up with, with a few new ones to discover added to the mix. I liked the fact the the poems were relatively short and not too involved - an easy read in a comfortable chair to end the evening with.