Some of My Favorite Poems

By request, my favorite lyric poems composed in modern English:

Tennyson, "Ulysses"

Yeats, "Under Ben Bulben", "A Prayer for my Daughter,"  "The Wild Swans at Coole"

T.S. Eliot, "The Wasteland"

Emily Dickinson, "I Dwell in Possibility"

W.H. Auden, "September 1, 1939"

Edward FitzGerald, "Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam"; my favorite quatrains are here.

Simon Ó Faoláin, "Winnowing"

Dylan Thomas, "And Death Shall Have No Dominion"

Kahlil Gibran, "On Children"

Jane Hirshfield, "Each Moment a White Bull Steps Shining into the World"

W.S. Merwin, "A Black Kite"

Traci Brimhall, "Come Trembling"

Rudyard Kipling, "Danny Deever"

William Blake, "The Tyger"