LadyJuliaHale

Yay! So I'm not the only one who loves William Blake's work?

A couple other poets that I quite like are: Shel Silverstein (A Light in the Attic) and Robert Frost (Birches, After Apple Picking, Fire and Ice).

Crap, I forgot to also mention Edgar Allen Poe (The Raven). Despite his dark works, I still find him to be a rather good poet.

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I'm standing in the dark calling your name, But when you don't answer,
I realized everyday it's the same.

EmoNightmareRose

My personal favourite work by Poe remains to be:
He really was a remarkable Poet, every single one of his poems have a similar structure, yet they seem beatifully planned out.

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LadyJuliaHale

I quite like that poem, too!

He definitely was a remarkable poet. I think I may have a poetry book full of many poets works and I think I have at least two of Poe's poems in it.

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I'm standing in the dark calling your name, But when you don't answer,
I realized everyday it's the same.

beast

As cheesy as it may sound for an anime fan I loved Rei's Poem as well. In fact it is my favorite even though some people debate that it is a poem. Her reference to the sun is beautiful.

Spike'sRose

My favorite poem would have to be The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes.

The visuals are so stunning in this piece...

"He'd a French cocked-hat on his forehead, a bunch of lace at his chin,
A coat of the claret velvet, and breeches of brown doe-skin;
They fitted with never a wrinkle: his boots were up to the thigh!
And he rode with a jewelled twinkle,
His pistol butts a-twinkle,
His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jewelled sky."

And the story itself is heart wrenching.

The story is about a Highwayman (the highway robbers, with the elegant clothes and the mask and the whole bit) who is in love with an innkeeper's daughter, named Bess. He rides off, promising her he'll be back soon, and while he's gone Red Coats stomp in and take Bess hostage, waiting for him to return. I can't give it away if you haven't read it yet!

I love prose, and this is the perfect example of a good prose poem. I memorized it for a report in 5th grade... No one understood it. >.<

Loreena McKinnit actually wrote this into a song~ It's gorgeous.

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spectrevampire

"To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick.