by John Cooper Clarke

"I Wanna Be Yours" is perhaps the most famous work of the legendary "punk poet" John Cooper Clarke. In this poem, a speaker offers himself to his beloved, telling her how he longs to be her "vacuum cl

by William Wordsworth

"Surprised by joy—impatient as the Wind" is an autobiographical sonnet in which William Wordsworth writes of his grief for his daughter Catherine, who died when she was just three years old. The poem'

by John Milton

In John Milton's "L'Allegro"—an Italian word which means, roughly, "The Happy Man"—a speaker vows to banish Melancholy (thoughtful sadness, here personified as a dark goddess). He chooses instead to f

by Gerard Manley Hopkins

"Inversnaid" is Gerard Manley Hopkins's exuberant celebration of untamed nature. Standing beside a wild, dark waterfall in the small Scottish town of Inversnaid, the speaker (a voice for Hopkins himse

by Robert Frost

"Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" was written by American poet Robert Frost in 1922 and published in 1923, as part of his collection New Hampshire. The poem is told from the perspective of a trav

by Kamala Das

In "An Introduction," the groundbreaking Indian poet Kamala Das does precisely what the poem's title says she will: she introduces herself, boldly proclaiming who she is. As she observes, her complex,