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For some reason I'm in the mood for some poetry. I've never really taken to them, probably because a lot of my experience with it is from analyzing and dissecting it.

Ones that rhyme are preferable, but not a requirement. And I think links to audio/video of readings of poetry pieces would be cool.

'The Highwayman' by Alfred Noyes is one of my favorite poems. It was put to music and sung by Loreena McKennitt. Here's a link:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UvKBPr71dhA

Porphyria's Lover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE6PjB1kn4w

I first heard it in an English lesson and it really took root in my mind.

That was delightfully disturbing.

One of the best poetry readings by the author:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr6AYzqFK9E

I am currently reading an Ogden Nash anthology and loving it. His rhymes are batty and his meter is absurd but there's things both silly and profound. His animal poems are fun, and I just read and liked this one:

http://www.poemhunter.com/best-poems/ogden-nash/goody-for-our-side-and-your-side-too/

Oh wow, I would love to hear this sung in a musical or something. It's very fun!

I always recommend Philip Levine and Anne Carson. Are you looking for spoken word by any chance? If so I must always rec Dominique Christina.

I have no idea what spoken word is, but I think I've seen some in tv shows--The Fosters had one, I think? It was kinda okay, I guess, but I don't remember it that much.

Could you link for some stuff (whether just the text or an actual reading) or titles of the poems you particularly liked from the authors you mentioned? That'd be cool.

so you say spoken is okay, so slam poetry? Some of my faves I remember from high school (i don't actually keep up with it too well) are Andrea Gibson and Big Poppa E

Pablo Neruda.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_-DvjGmAVc
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pT2rtoXq5JY

(two poems by robinson jeffers)

The Night Has a Thousand Eyes
Francis William Bourdillon (b. 1852)
http://www.bartleby.com/246/979.html

Not In Vain
by Emily Dickinson
http://poetry.literaturelearning.org/?q=node/637

Oh wow, I remember that first one! It was an epigraph (I think of the last book) for A Series of Unfortunate Events. Very beautiful imagery.

Sorry to hijack your thread but this has been annoying me. I remember reading a poem told from the perspective of a married man who narrates how he would respond if his wife cheated on him and it culminates in him opening all the doors and windows in the house and spreading their silverware on the yard and running over it with a car. Does it ring any bells for anyone? I read this YEARS ago in a poetry anthology.

This is probably my favorite poem. It doesn't rhyme but it gives me such a cool, refreshing feeling reading it.

This is Just to Say by William Carlos Williams

I have eaten
the plums
that were in
the icebox

and which
you were probably
saving
for breakfast

Forgive me
they were delicious
so sweet
and so cold

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/245576

Not rhyming but Heaney's poetic Beowulf is worth checking out.

Late, but oh well:

I really love Emily Dickinson's After great pain, a formal feeling comes (only partially rhymes and I can't find a recording that I don't find cringey, sorry.)

After great pain, a formal feeling comes –
The Nerves sit ceremonious, like Tombs –
The stiff Heart questions ‘was it He, that bore,’
And ‘Yesterday, or Centuries before’?

The Feet, mechanical, go round –
A Wooden way
Of Ground, or Air, or Ought –
Regardless grown,
A Quartz contentment, like a stone –

This is the Hour of Lead –
Remembered, if outlived,
As Freezing persons, recollect the Snow –
First – Chill – then Stupor – then the letting go –

I also encountered William Blake's The Garden of Love in school and liked it ever since:

I went to the Garden of Love,
And saw what I never had seen:
A Chapel was built in the midst,
Where I used to play on the green.

And the gates of this Chapel were shut,
And Thou shalt not. writ over the door;
So I turn'd to the Garden of Love,
That so many sweet flowers bore.

And I saw it was filled with graves,
And tomb-stones where flowers should be:
And Priests in black gowns, were walking their rounds,
And binding with briars, my joys & desires.

There is a song version of it: https://youtu.be/h6avqJDRiYY

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