Great Books Foundation
Poems

Poems to Read, Reread, and Discuss

The following poems have appeared in various Great Books Foundation publications. Each poem is presented here with accompanying resources from the Foundation and Poets.org, website of the Academy of American Poets.

Ariel's Fifth Song
William Shakespeare (from The Tempest)
The Dumb Soldier
Robert Louis Stevenson
For the Union Dead
Robert Lowell
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
T. S. Eliot
Ode: Intimations of Immortality
William Wordsworth
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Samuel Taylor Coleridge
Sonnet 116
William Shakespeare