Poems represent some of the greatest works of literature assembled. Peruse these noteworthy poems to see some of the early creations and how poetry evolved:
The Odyssey by Homer
Rubaiyat XII by Omar Khayyam
"Farewell" by Chao Li-hua
Sonnet 73 by William Shakespeare
The Inferno by Dante
Eugene Onegin by Alexander Pushkin
"Crossing Brooklyn Ferry" by Walt Whitman
"A Narrow Fellow in the Grass" by Emily Dickinson
"The Second Coming" by William Butler Yeats
"Walking Around" by Pablo Neruda
"Requiem: 1935–1940" by Anna Akhmatova
"Song of the Initiate" by Léopold Sédar Senghor
"Daddy" by Sylvia Plath
"Under a Certain Little Star" by Wislawa Szymborska
"Monster Mash" by David Trinidad
