10 must-read Poems
- MelenReviews
- Jun 30, 2019
- 2 min read
Updated: Dec 8, 2019

1. 'Goblin Market' by Christina Rossetti
2. 'Gap Year' by Jackie Kay
'Seeing you, shy, smiling, on the webcam reminds me of the second scan at twenty weeks, how at that fuzzy moment back then, you were lying cross-legged with an index finger resting sophisticatedly on one cheek.'
3. 'The Harlot's House' by Oscar Wilde
Then took each other by the hand, And danced a stately saraband; Their laughter echoed thin and shrill.'
4. 'Mrs Lazarus' by Carol Ann Duffy
'He lived. I saw the horror on his face. I heard his mother's crazy song. I breathed his stench; my bridegroom in his rotting shroud, moist and dishevelled from the grave's slack chew, croaking his cuckold name, disinherited, out of his time.'
5. 'I.W. To My Unconstant Lover' by Isabella Whitney
6. 'Mariana' by Alfred Tennyson
'She only said, "My life is dreary, He cometh not," she said; She said, "I am aweary, aweary, I would that I were dead!"'
7. 'Ode to Autumn' by John Keats
8. 'Turning Darker Still' by Jacob Sam La Rose
9. 'The Wasteland' by T.S. Eliot
10. 'The Lady’s Dressing-Room' by Johnathan Swift
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