The Best Poets of the 20th Century
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Vote up the best poets working between 1900-1999 in any language. Only written-word poetry; no musical lyrics!
- 1When You Are Old, The Lake Isle of Innisfree, Never Give All The Heart
- 2The Wasteland, The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, The Hollow Men
- 3
Ranier Maria Rilke
At The Brink Of Night, Behind the Blameless Trees, Falconry - 4Livro Do Desassossego
- 5I Do Not Love You, If You Forget Me, Tonight I Can Write the Saddest Lines
- 6The Open Balcony, Viaje a la luna, Blind Grace
- 7Ithaca, As Much As You Can, Body Remember
- 8The Road Not Taken, Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Mending Wall
- 9The Emperor of Ice-Cream, Sunday Morning, Disillusionment of Ten O'Clock
- 10The Bell Jar, Ariel, The Collected Poems
- 11Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, And Death Shall Have No Dominion, Fern Hill
- 12Everything, I Taught Myself to Live Simply, You Will Hear Thunder
- 13i carry your heart with me, may i feel said he, maggie and milly and molly and may
- 14Funeral Blues, Cocaine Lil and Morphine Sue, A Walk After Dark
- 15Dreams, As I Grew Older, Mother to Son
- 16
Wislawa Symborska
- 17Blackberry-Picking, Mid-Term Break, Death of a Naturalist
- 18One Art, I Am in Need of Music, The Fish
- 19Fugue of Death, In Front of a Candle, Psalm
- 20Aubade, The Spirit Wood, Since the Majority of Me
- 21A Girl, In a Station of the Metro, And the Days Are Not Full Enough
- 22Fatal interview, The murder of Lidice, The harp-weaver and other poems
- 23Mystery-Bouffe, Night & Morning, The bedbug
- 24
Marina Tsvetaeva
Much Like Me, Lady with Camelias, Whence Cometh Such Tender Rapture? - 25Verwandlungen / Transformations, All My Pretty Ones, Live or Die
- 26Still I Rise, Phenomenal Woman, Caged Bird
- 27Dulce Et Decorum Est, 1914, Anthem for Doomed Youth
- 28In the Mecca; Poems, Annie Allen
- 29Collected Poems, 1920-1954, Satura
- 30The Red Wheelbarrow, This Is Just to Say, A Song of a Song
