10 Short Foreign Poems: A Journey Through Words

1. 'Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening' by Robert Frost Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village, though; He will not see me stopping here To watch his woods fill up with snow. (123 words)

2. 'The Red Wheelbarrow' by William Carlos Williams So much depends Upon A red wheel Barrow (8 words)

3. 'The Waste Land' by T.S. Eliot April is the cruellest month, breeding Lilacs out of the dead land, mixing Memory and desire, stirring Dull roots with spring rain. (42 words)

4. 'This Is Just To Say' by William Carlos Williams I have eaten the plums that were in the icebox (12 words)

5. 'Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night' by Dylan Thomas 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. (27 words)

6. 'Annabel Lee' by Edgar Allan Poe It was many and many a year ago, In a kingdom by the sea, That a maiden there lived whom you may know By the name of Annabel Lee. (32 words)

7. 'The Road Not Taken' by Robert Frost Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. (20 words)

8. 'If' by Rudyard Kipling If you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you, Yours is the Earth and everything that's in it. (40 words)

9. 'Ozymandias' by Percy Bysshe Shelley I met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk a shattered visage lies. . . .” (43 words)

10. 'Sonnet 18' by William Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: (46 words)