Poetry

 

Even if we despised rhyme and metre as Tolstoy did, and held that nothing has been said in verse that could not be better said in prose, we should still have to admit that many things are said more permanently in verse.
(from the introduction by Robert Lynd to A. Methuen’s An Anthology of Modern Verse, Methuen & Co. Ltd., London, 1949.)

Here's a short list of English poems (in no particular order) which I particularly like.

Each poet's biography is also worth looking up: this is often fascinating, and much will be discovered and learned.

The Daffodils (William Wordsworth)

The Donkey (G. K. Chesterton)

So Sweet Love Seemed (Robert Bridges)

Silver (Walter de la Mare)

When You Are Old (W. B. Yeats)

Everyone Sang (Siegfried Sassoon)

Milk For The Cat (Harold Monro)

Leisure (W. H. Davies)

“Home no more Home to Me” (Robert Louis Stevenson)