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Pussydigger:
Williams Shakespeare

Name another poet

Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right,
Because their words had forked no lightning they
Do not go gentle into that good night.

Stanley met muteshaa

My favourite American Poet is Mr Robert Frost,

" The road not taken".

J P clerk
Olamide adeosun
Wole show.
Lanrie peters

Blakpot:
Name another poet

tonto dicke

Rumi

Potable

osazsky:
tonto dicke

lol na so

Ladipoe

Peter Obi of course. Vote Peter Obi and have peace of mind. Vote ancestors- Tinubu or Atiku then get High blood pressure.

dry thread... as someone said

Christopher Okigbo

Me myself

William's Wordsworth

Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head....


Wilfrid Gibson
And will you cut a stone for him.....

Clare Harner
Do not stand at my grave and weep.....

John Donne
No man is an island, all by himself

Michael Jackson

Longfellow

"Death stays our hurrying feet, the great design unfinished lies, our lives are incomplete. "

Flecker's play Hassan is also worth brooding over

" who are ye in rags and rotten shoes, dirty bearded blocking up the way?"
" We are pilgrims master, we shall go a little farther perhaps, across that blue mountain barred with snow or that angry or shimmering sea, there lives a prophet guarded in a cave who knows why men were born. But we are brave master, who takes the golden road to Sarmakand."

Soyinka wole :abiku

William Shakespeare. SHE SHOULD HAVE DIED HEREAFTER,

Call of river nun by Gabriel Okara

Picasso

mekusmanuel:
William's Wordsworth

one of his quote inspires me in a way.
"I too have but my dreams, I spread my dreams before your feet, thread carefully, for you thread on my dreams."

inverseparanoia:
Hello, lovers of poetry, who's your favorite Poet, which of his poem do you love most? Post your favorite line in the poem...
Alan E. Poe is my most admired poet.
I love his "Annabelle Lee" most.
Favorite line:

"For the moon never beams
Without bringing me dreams"

Alexander Pope the dying Christian to his Soul.

Lalasticlala's python Dance poems

Great Williams

Rudyard Kipling: IF
Kofi Awoonor's songs of sorrow comes next

I assume the OP means only English poets. Though my favorite all-time poet was Alfazazi Al Andalusi (Arabic), among my many favorites English poets is Henry W. Longfellow (1807-1882).
I particularly love his:
*Harun Al Rachid
*A Psalm of Life
*The Slave's Dream
*The Potter's Song
I also love Abou Ben Adhem by Leigh Hunt.

Realists:
My favorite poet is Imru' al-Qais (501-565)
"May You Be Happy This Morning, Worn Traces!
How many a day, a night I'd spend
with a woman, stark as a statue outlined,
her face aglow as she turns to her mate
like softly radiant candle light;
her breast like the flare of a generous fire
by chilled men lit in the desert at night
in the wind come roving across the hills,
north, south, at the caravan staging posts.

Clear-cheeked, in her teens, so playful yet
that she makes me forget my clothes when I leave;
with rounds like the dunes that as children we loved
to tread for their smooth and velvety touch.
When her lover strips her, wanting all,
she leans to him lightly, holding back;
slim at the waist and firm as she twists
with quickening breath from intoxicant lips.

How about Jerrie and Farasdakh?

I don't know much about poetry, I focus more on prose.

Muammar gadaffi and bola ahmad tinubu