My all time favorite poem is by E.A. Poe THE RAVEN. Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore — While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis...

When Cheryl Dring announced this Poetry forum, first to my mind was " Humor " by Yevgeny Yevtushenko (see below). Dmitri Shostakovich wrote his Symphony #13 around the poems of Yevtushenko including the symphony's title poem, Babi Yar ( http://boppin.com/poets/yy_babiyar.htm ). "Humor"...

Here are some from Sappho that have stuck with me since I read them in a college literature course. They're short and very sweet: 9: Although they are Only breath, words which I command are immortal 56: Day in, day out I hunger and I struggle 60: You may forget but Let me tell you this: someone in...