No, this isn't my poetry. I don't write poetry, other than the occasional bad haiku. This is a collection of poetry that I like and occasionally make allusions to. This is where I point people that give me a blank look when I make said allusions.
By the way, if you're looking for a repository of poetry and suchlike things, try the New Bartleby Library. It has all those things you should read but haven't gotten around to yet.
And yes, this is mostly depressing stuff. Sue me. It's still good. (Housman had something to say about that, actually..)
- A.E. Housman, Terence, this is stupid stuff
- A.E. Housman, When I was one-and-twenty
- T.S. Eliot, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
- Robert Frost, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
- W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming
- Alfred, Lord Tennyson, Ulysses
Things that should be here but ain't
- T.S. Eliot, The Waste Land
- William Shakespeare, A variety of soliloquies, including "To be, or not to be", "Now is the winter of our discontent", and "Alas, poor Yorick".
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- poetry for reference
- second coming
- prufrock
- stopping by woods
- one-and-twenty
- stupid stuff
- ulysses
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