One of the pleasures of maintaining a poetry site is seeing what you like. My methodology isn't entirely scientific - I just see which are the 100 most visited poems in the last month - but it is fascinating to review. One thing comes across strongly, namely poetry still resonates with people. There are a range of stirring poems, childhood favourites, poems reflecting the pathos of war and old favourites. There are some unexpected entries too, and a surprisingly dearth of traditional favourites, like Shelley and Keats. Here, in alphabetic order of the poem's title are your favourites. Why not set yourself a target of reading a poem from the list every week?
- A Dead Boche - Robert Graves
- A Red, Red Rose - Robert Burns
- A Subalterns Love Song - John Betjeman
- Abou Ben Adhem - James Leigh Hunt
- Adlestrop - Edward Thomas
- Afterwards - Thomas Hardy
- An Arundel Tomb - Philip Larkin
- And did those Feet in Ancient Time - William Blake
- Anthem For Doomed Youth - Wilfred Owen
- Antigonish - Hughes Mearns
- At Lord's - Francis Thompson
- At lunchtime - A story of love - Roger McGough
- Before You Were Mine - Carol Ann Duffy
- Blackberry Picking - Seamus Heaney
- Bloody Men - Wendy Cope
- Bustopher Jones - TS Eliot
- Canal Bank Walk - Patrick Kavanagh
- Cargoes - John Masefield
- Celia Celia - Adrian Mitchell
- Crow Blacker than Ever - Ted Hughes
- Daffodils - William Wordsworth
- Death the Leveller - James Shirley
- Deceptions - Philip Larkin
- Directive - Robert Frost
- Do Not Go Gentle - Dylan Thomas
- Everyone Sang - Siegfried Sassoon
- Fern Hill - Dylan Thomas
- Fifteen Million Plastic Bags - Adrian Mitchell
- From 'Under Milk Wood' - Dylan Thomas
- Funeral Blues - WH Auden
- Homage to the British Museum - William Empson
- i carry your heart with me - ee cummings
- I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings - Maya Angelou
- I Married A Monster From Outer Space - John Cooper Clarke
- If - Rudyard Kipling
- If I Could Tell You - WH Auden
- In Memory Of My Mother - Patrick Kavanagh
- Invictus - William Ernest Henley
- It Ain't What You Do, It's What It Does To You - Simon Armitage
- Jabberwocky - Lewis Carroll
- Leisure - William Henry Davies
- Lessons of the War - Henry Reed
- Let Me Die A Youngman's Death - Roger McGough
- Macavity, The Mystery Cat - TS Eliot
- may i feel said he - ee cummings
- Missing Dates - William Empson
- Mother, any distance greater than a single span - Simon Armitage
- Night Mail - WH Auden
- No Man Is An Island - John Donne
- November - Thomas Hood
- On the death of a soldier - James Graham
- Phenomenal Woman - Maya Angelou
- Poppies - Jane Weir
- Rain - Spike Milligan
- Remember - Christina Rossetti
- Requiem - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Sea-Fever - John Masefield
- Singh Song - Daljit Nagra
- Slough - John Betjeman
- Sometimes - Sheenagh Pugh
- Sonnet 29 - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
- Still I Rise - Maya Angelou
- Stony Grey Soil - Patrick Kavanagh
- Storm on the Island - Seamus Heaney
- Tarantella - Hilaire Belloc
- Television - Roald Dahl
- The Ballad of Reading Gaol - Oscar Wilde
- The Highwayman - Alfred Noyes
- The Hollow Men - TS Eliot
- The Horses - Ted Hughes
- The Howling of Wolves - Ted Hughes
- The King's Breakfast - AA Milne
- The Listeners - Walter De La Mare
- The Lost Son - Theodore Roethke
- The Map-Woman - Carol Ann Duffy
- The Old Fools - Philip Larkin
- The Owl and the Pussy-Cat - Edward Lear
- The Present - Michael Donaghy
- The Raven - Edgar Allan Poe
- The Rime of the Ancient Mariner - Samuel Taylor Coleridge
- The Rolling English Road - GK Chesterton
- The Shield of Achilles - WH Auden
- The Soldier - Rupert Brooke
- The Song of Hiawatha - HW Longfellow
- The Twin of Sleep - Robert Graves
- The Tyger - William Blake
- This Be The Verse - Philip Larkin
- Toads - Philip Larkin
- Tree at my window - Robert Frost
- Two Armies - Stephen Spender
- Vinegar - Roger McGough
- Walking Away - Cecil Day-Lewis
- Warning - Jenny Joseph
- What If - Benjamin Zephaniah
- who knows if the moon - ee cummings
- Wind - Ted Hughes
- Wind and Tree - Paul Muldoon
- Without You - Adrian Henri
- You Are Old, Father William - Lewis Carroll
- You Begin - Margaret Atwood