Contemplative poems

The poet has something to say that goes beyond description and leads though to understanding.

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To Marguerite by Matthew Arnold

The Moment by Margaret Atwood

Musee des Beaux Arts W. H. Auden

Correspondances by Charles Baudelaire

Introduction To Poetry by Billy Collins

Television by Roald Dahl

The Road Not Taken by Robert Frost

Carion Comfort by Gerard Manley Hopkins

NO worst, there is none, by Gerard Manley Hopkins

Dreams by Langston Hughes

Dreams Deferred by Langston Hughes

If By Rudyard Kipling

The Female of the Species by Rudyard Kipling

Bagpipe Music by Louis Macneice

On His Blindness By John Milton

Song in the Manner of Housman by Ezra Pound

The Second Coming, By W.B. Yeats


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