A Pilgrim’s Digression

I find it a little easier to identify favorite poems. Being shorter than works of fiction, one returns to poetry more frequently, and so poems stay fresher in one’s mind.

• The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
• “Daffodils” by William Wordsworth
• The Prelude by William Wordsworth
• “Ozymandias” by Percy Shelley
• “The Emperor of Ice Cream” by Wallace Stevens
• “America” by Allen Ginsberg
• “To Autumn” by John Keats
• “When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be” by John Keats
• “She Walks in Beauty” by Byron
• “Ode to the West Wind” by Percy Shelley
• “Kubla Khan” by Coleridge
• “The Aeolian Harp” by Coleridge