Of the millions of poems in print, I have read only a few thousand. Here are some that have moved me, which means they still move me after a hundred reads. Some I could not find online and some of the links may be broken, but I still urge you to read them. The list will grow as time permits.
- Acquainted with the Night by Robert Frost
- After the Dinner Party by Robert Penn Warren
- Archaic Torso of Apollo by Rainer Maria Rilke
- Ask Me by William Stafford
- Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
- Death, Be Not Proud by John Donne
- Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night by Dylan Thomas
- Fable of the Water Merchants by Stephen Dunn
- Forgetfulness by Billy Collins
- Funeral Blues by W. H. Auden
- Harlem by Langston Hughes
- The House on the Hill by Edward Arlington Robinson
- Howl by Allen Ginsberg
- I Am a Little Church by e. e. cummings
- I Am Waiting by Lawrence Ferlinghetti
- I Knew a Woman by Theodore Roethke
- I'll tell you how the sun rose by Emily Dickinson
- If I Could Tell You by W. H. Auden
- In a Dark Time by Theodore Roethke
- Ithaka by C. P. Cavafy
- Last Gods by Galway Kinnell
- Little Girl Wakes Early by Robert Penn Warren
- Losses by Grace Schulman
- Love's Philosophy by Percy Bysshe Shelley
- The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T. S. Eliot
- Mad Girl's Love Song by Sylvia Plath
- Mortal Limit by Robert Penn Warren
- My Papa's Waltz by Theodore Roethke
- No Man Is an Island by John Donne
- O Captain! My Captain! by Walt Whitman
- Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth
- Ode to Ironing by Pablo Neruda
- Ode to a Lemon by Pablo Neruda
- One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
- Preludes by T. S. Eliot
- She Walks in Beauty by Lord Byron
- Sisters of Mercy by Leonard Cohen
- somewhere i have never travelled by e. e. cummings
- Sonnet 18 by William Shakespeare
- Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare
- Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening by Robert Frost
- The Stranger Song by Leonard Cohen
- A Supermarket in California by Allen Ginsberg
- Theme for English B by Langston Hughes
- This quiet dust by Emily Dickinson
- Touch Me by Stanley Kunitz
- Traveling through the Dark by William Stafford
- Unable are the Loved to die by Emily Dickinson
- The Waking by Theodore Roethke
- When One Has Lived a Long Time Alone by Galway Kinnell