Essential Poems - Statistics

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Answer Stats
Author Poem % Correct
William Shakespeare Sonnet 18
56%
Dylan Thomas Do Not go Gentle into that Good Night
44%
Ruyard Kipling If
44%
Edgar Allan Poe The Raven
44%
Wilfred Owen Dulce Et Decorum Est
33%
William Wordsworth I wandered lonley as a cloud
33%
Percy Bysshe Shelly Ozymandias
33%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
33%
Robert Frost The Road not Taken
33%
Walt Whitman O Captain! My Captain!
22%
Edgar Allan Poe Annabel Lee
11%
Emily Dickinson Because I could not stop for Death
11%
John Donne Death be not Proud
11%
William Blake Of Another's Sorrow
11%
Paul Celan Psalm
11%
William Blake The Human Abstract
11%
Emily Dickinson A Bird, came down the walk
0%
Ted Kooser A Birthday Poem
0%
Yehuda Amichai A Child is Something Else Again
0%
Muhammad Shanazar A Deformed Angel
0%
Edgar Allan Poe A Dream Within a Dream
0%
Derek Walcott A Far Cry From Africa
0%
Wislawa Szymborska A Few Words on the Soul
0%
Robert Frost After Apple Picking
0%
Anne Sexton After Auschwitz
0%
Emily Dickinson After great pain a formal feeling comes
0%
Sara Teasdale After Love
0%
Kamala Das A Hot Noon in Malabar
0%
Amy Lowell A Lady
0%
William Shakespeare All the World's A stage
0%
Li Po Alone and Drinking Under the Moon
0%
Pablo Neruda Always
0%
Rumi A Moment of Hapiness
0%
Dylan Thomas And Death Shall Have no Dominion
0%
Alexander Pushkin Angel
0%
Miraza Ghalib An Open House
0%
Rumi Any Chance Meeting
0%
Dongju Yun A Poem I've Written Easily
0%
Desanka Makisimovic Apprehension
0%
Fedrico Garcia Lorca Arbole, Arbole
0%
Alexander Pope Argus
0%
Jose Marti A Sincere Man Am I
0%
William Wordsworth A slumber did my spirit seal
0%
Octavio Paz As One Listens to the Rain
0%
Hermann Hesse At Night At the High Seas
0%
Philip Larkin Aubade
0%
John Donne A Valediction Forbidding Mourning
0%
Clement Clark Moore A Visit from St Nicholas
0%
Jorge Luis Borges A Wolf
0%
Charles Baudelaire A Woman Passing By
0%
Toeti Heraty A Woman's Portrait 1938
0%
Tsegaye Gabre-Medhin Azabo Revisited
0%
Rabindranath Tagore Babys World
0%
Warsan Shire Backwards
0%
Lisa Mueller Beginning with 1914
0%
Octavio Paz Between Going and Staying
0%
Rumi Beyond
0%
Jacques Prévert Birdwatcher's Song
0%
Koleka Putuma Black Joy
0%
Desanka Maksimovic Bloody Fairy Tale
0%
Gwendolyn Brooks Boy Breaking Glass
0%
Dorothea Mackeller Burning Off
0%
Henrik Ibsen Burnt Ships
0%
Dennis Brutus "Bury the Great Duke"
0%
Carl Sandburg Cahoots
0%
Robert W Service Carry on!
0%
Ernest Thayer Casey at the Bat
0%
Okot P'Bitek Cattle Egret
0%
Leonie Adams Certainly Beauty
0%
Sappho Charaxos and Larichos
0%
Wole Soyinka Civilian and Soldier
0%
Carl Philips Civilization
0%
Matsuo Basho Collection of Six Haikus
0%
Rumi Come
0%
William Carlos Williams Complaint
0%
Ho Xuan Huong Confession III
0%
Anne Sexton Courage
0%
T S Eliot Cousin Nancy
0%
Al Mutannabi Cowards
0%
Rudaki Dear Heart
0%
Henry Scott Holland Death Is Nothing At All
0%
Gabriela Mistral Death Sonnet
0%
Bei Dao Declaration
0%
Rabindranath Tagore Defamation
0%
Robert Frost Design
0%
Wilfred Owen Disabled
0%
Benjamin Zephaniah Dis Poetry
0%
Wallace Stevens Dissalusionment of Ten o' Clock
0%
Pablo Neruda Don't Go Far Off
0%
William Butler Yeats Easter, 1916
0%
Sylvia Plath Edge
0%
Edgar Allan Poe Eldorado
0%
Cathy Park Hong Engines Within the Throne
0%
Fredrico Garcia Lorca Farewell
0%
Ruben Dario Fatality
0%
Robert Frost Fire and Ice
0%
Craig Santos Perez (First Trimester)
0%
Laurence Binyon For The Fallen
0%
Rabindranath Tagore Freedom
0%
Samuel Taylor Coleridge Frost at Midnight
0%
Edgar Lee Masters George Gray
0%
T S Eliot Gerontion (Stanza 5)
0%
Agha Shahid Ali Ghazal
0%
Kahlil Gibran God
0%
May Swenson Gods. Children
0%
Amy Lowell Granadilla
0%
William Wordsworth Guilt and Sorrow
0%
Kofi Awonoor Had Death Not Had Me in Tears
0%
Thomas Hardy Hap
0%
Langston Hughes Harlem
0%
Carl Sandburg Harrison Street Court
0%
Spike Milligan Have A Nice Day
0%
Brandy Nalani McDougall He Mele Aloha no ka Niu
0%
Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers
0%
Wislawa Szymborska Hunger Camp at Jaslo
0%
Percy Bysshe Shelly Hymn to Intellectual Beauty
0%
E E Cummings i carry your heart with me
0%
Nizar Qabanni I Conquer the World with Words
0%
Alexander Pushkin I Don't Deplore These Years
0%
Siegfried Sassoon Idyll
0%
Claude McKay If We Must Die
0%
George Eliot I Grant You Ample Leave
0%
Mahmoud Darwish I Have a Seat in the Abandoned Theater
0%
Susan Kiguli I Love Home
0%
George Eliot In a London Drawingroom
0%
Kimiko Hahn In Childhood
0%
Emily Dickinson I never lost as much but twice
0%
Jon McCrae In Flanders Field
0%
Mir Taqi Mir In My Own Way
0%
Kim Hyesoon Inside-Bird and Outside-Bird
0%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox Interlude
0%
Wole Soyinka In the Small Hours
0%
William Ernest Henley Invictus
0%
Alexander Pushkin Invocation
0%
Kabir I said to the Wanting Creature Inside Me
0%
Emily Dickinson I started early, took my dog
0%
Mukoma Wa Ngugi I Swear I See Skulls Coming
0%
Gerard Manley Hopkins I wake and Feel the Fell of Dark
0%
Jose Marti I Wish to Leave the World
0%
*Apocryphal John Henry
0%
Desanka Makisimovic Joy
0%
John Keats La Belle Dame Sans Merci
0%
Langston Hughes Let America Be America Again
0%
Rabindranath Tagore Let Me Not Forget
0%
Nazim Hikmet Letters from a Man in Solitude
0%
Yu Qian Limestone Chant
0%
Luo Binwang Listening to the Cicadas in Prison
0%
Eugene Field Little Boy Blue
0%
Kabir Look at the Grinding Stones Dohas
0%
Kalidasa Look to this Day
0%
Edward Arlington Robinson Luke Havergal
0%
Leonie Adams Magnificat in Little
0%
Saadi Shirazi Manner of Kings 2
0%
Saadi Shirazi Manner of Kings 5
0%
William Ernest Henley Margaritae Sorori
0%
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Mariana
0%
Joyce Kilmer Martin
0%
Charles Baudelaire Meditation
0%
Robert Frost Mending Wall
0%
Ezra Pound Middle-Aged: A Study in Emotion
0%
Desanka Maksimovic Migratory Birds
0%
Bei Dao Moon Festival
0%
Oodgeroo Noonuccal Municipal Gum
0%
William Wordsworth Mutability
0%
Chairli Anwar My Friend and I
0%
Louisa May Alcott My Kingdom
0%
Julia Ward Howe My Last Dance
0%
Emily Dickinson My life had stood a loaded gun
0%
*Apocryphal Narcissus
0%
Langston Hughes Negro Speaks of Rivers
0%
Amy Lowell New Heavens for Old
0%
Mbuyiseni Mtshali Nightfall in Soweto
0%
James Joyce Night Piece
0%
Chiranan Pitpreecha Night Ponderings
0%
Sara Teasdale Night Song at Amalifi
0%
Niyi Osundare Not My Business
0%
Muhammad Shanazar O! Death Stop
0%
Horace Ode I 11
0%
John Keats Ode to a Grecian Urn
0%
Ross Gay ode to the puritain in me
0%
Oliver Wendel Holmes Old Ironsides
0%
Philis Wheatley On Being Brought From Africa to America
0%
Nazim Hikmet On Living
0%
Rabindranath Tagore On the Nature of Love
0%
Cathy Park Hong Ontology of Chang and Eng
0%
Eugene Field Our Two Opinions
0%
Rabindranath Tagore Paper Boats
0%
Luo Binwang Parting on the River Yi
0%
Maya Angelou Phenomenal Woman
0%
Natasha Trethewey Pilgramage
0%
Chairil Anwar Pines in the Distance
0%
Min Nong/Li Shen Pity Toiling Farmers
0%
Horace Priapus
0%
Patricia Lockwood Rape Joke
0%
Langston Hughes Remember
0%
Emily Bronte Remembrance
0%
Edna St Vincent Millay Renascence
0%
Robert Louis Stevenson Requiem
0%
Lutpulla Mutellip Response to Years
0%
Edgar A Guest Reward
0%
Edward Arlington Robinson Richard Cory
0%
Paul Blackburn Ritual VIII
0%
Edgar A Guest See It Through
0%
Cáozhí Seven Steps Verse
0%
Rudaki Shahids Caravan
0%
Ada Limon Sharks in the Rivers
0%
William Wordsworth She Dwelt among untrodden ways
0%
Shel Silverstein Sick
0%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Snow Flakes
0%
Gabriela Mistral Song of Death
0%
Walt Whitman Song of Myself 51
0%
Swami Vivekananda Song of the Free
0%
Ben Jonson Song to Celia
0%
William Shakespeare Sonnet 116
0%
William Shakespeare Sonnet 59
0%
Elizabeth Barret Browning Sonnets from the Portuguese 43
0%
John Keats Sonnet: To Sleep
0%
Lord Bryon So we'll go no more a roving
0%
Meng Haoran Spring Morning
0%
Emily Bronte Stanzas
0%
Ingeborg Bachmann Stay
0%
Cao Xueqin Story of Stone
0%
Jorge Luis Borges Suicide
0%
Wallace Stevens Sunday Morning (Stanza 7)
0%
Paula Gunn Allen Taking a Visitor to See the Ruins
0%
Anne Carson Tango XIX
0%
Emily Dickinson Tell all the Truth but tell it slant
0%
John Greenleaf Whittier Telling the Bees
0%
Ocean Vuong Tell Me Something Good
0%
Joyce Kilmer The Apartment House
0%
Jorge Luis Borges The Art of Poetry
0%
Zhai Yongming The Black Room
0%
Kahlil Gibran The Blessed City
0%
Lisa Mueller The Blind Leading the Blind
0%
Theophile Gautier The Blind Man
0%
Sara Teasdale The Broken Field
0%
Danez Smith the bullet was a girl
0%
JP Clark The Casualties
0%
Gwendolyn Brooks The Children of the Poor
0%
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Childrens Hour
0%
Marguerite Young The Clinic
0%
Muhammad Allama Iqbal The Cloud on the Mountain
0%
Ada Limon The Conditional
0%
Herman Melville The Conflict of Convictions (Stanzas 3-5)
0%
Edgar Allan Poe The Conqueror Worm
0%
Thomas Hardy The Convergence of the Twain
0%
Matsuo Basho The Dragonfly
0%
Hermann Hesse The Dream
0%
Dorothea Mackeller The Dreamer
0%
Sergei Yesenin The Drops
0%
Li Shangyin The Fine Evening
0%
Rumi The Guest House
0%
Carl Sandburg The Harbor
0%
T S Eliot The Hollow Men
0%
Edward Lear The Jumblies
0%
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Kraken
0%
William Butler Yeats The Lake Isle of Innisfree
0%
Walter De La Mare The Listeners
0%
Herman Melville The Maldive Shark
0%
Emma Lazarus The New Colossus
0%
Kamala Das The Old Playhouse
0%
Patricia Lockwood The Pinch
0%
Tahar Ben Jalloun The Rising of the Ashes (Before)
0%
Omar Khayyam The Rubaiyat
0%
Kahlil Gibran The Scarecrow
0%
William Butler Yeats The Second Coming
0%
Natalie Diaz These Hands, If Not Gods
0%
Yosa Buson The Short Night
0%
Kobayashi Issa The Snow is Melting
0%
Wallace Stevens The Snow Man
0%
Li Bai The Solitude of Night
0%
Ezra Pound The Station of the Metro
0%
Tracy K Smith The Universe as Primal Screaming
0%
Henry Lawson The Unknown God
0%
Oliver Wendel Holmes The Voicless
0%
Langston Hughes The Weary Blues
0%
Lawrence Ferlinghetti The World is a Beautiful Place
0%
W. S. Rendra The Worlds First Face
0%
Wallace Stevens Thirteen Ways to look at a Blackbird
0%
Rumi This Art
0%
Alexander Pushkin Thoughts
0%
Jean Joseph Rabearivelo Three Birds
0%
Frederich Von Schiller To a Moralist
0%
Sappho To any army wife in Sardis
0%
Miraza Ghalib To be Human, Is no Easy Feat
0%
William Carlos Williams To Elise
0%
Ovid To His Mistress
0%
Sarojini Naidu To The God of Pain
0%
Robert Herrick To The Virgins, Make Much of Time
0%
Joyce Kilmer Trees
0%
James Joyce Tutto Sciolto
0%
Muhammad Allama Iqbal Two Planets
0%
Toeti Heraty Two Women
0%
Mahmoud Darwish Under Siege
0%
Henry Lawson Unwritten Books
0%
Ralph Waldo Emerson Uriel
0%
Sarojini Naidu Village Song
0%
Rabindranath Tagore Waiting
0%
Kalidasa Waking
0%
Lenrie Peters We Have Come Home
0%
Hermann Hesse We Live as a Form
0%
Paul Laurence Dunbar We Wear the Mask
0%
Sergei Yesenin What Is Gone Can't Be Retrieved
0%
Edna Millay What My Lips Have Kissed, And Where, And Why
0%
John Greenleaf Whittier What the Birds Said
0%
Walt Whitman When I heard the learn'd Astronomer
0%
A. A Milne When I was One
0%
A E Housman When I was One and Twenty
0%
Lord Bryon When we two parted
0%
Jimmy Santiago Baca Who Understands me but Me
0%
Mary Oliver Wild Geese
0%
Joy Harjo Without
0%
Judith Wright Woman to Man
0%
Pablo Neruda XVII Sonnet of Love
0%
Etel Adnan XXXIX from Arab Apocalypse
0%
Dongju Yun Yet Another Home
0%
Jorge Luis Borges You Learn
0%
Ella Wheeler Wilcox You Never Can Tell
0%
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