Britain's 100 Favourite Poems
In 1995, the BBC asked British people to vote for their favourite poem, and this is the list that was created:
1 If -, Rudyard Kipling
2 The Lady of Shalott, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3 The Listeners, Walter de la Mare
4 Not Waving but Drowning, Stevie Smith
5 The Daffodils, William Wordsworth
6 To Autumn, John Keats
7 The Lake Isle of Innisfree, W.B. Yeats
8 Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
9 Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats
10 He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, W.B. Yeats
11 Remember, Christina Rossetti
12 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray
13 Fern Hill, Dylan Thomas
14 Leisure, William Henry Davies
15 The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes
16 To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvel
17 Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold
18 The Tyger, William Blake
19 Twelve Songs IX, W.H. Auden
20 Adlestrop, Edward Thomas
21 The Soldier, Rupert Brooke
22 Warning, Jenny Joseph
23 Sea-Fever, John Masefield
24 Upon Westminster Bridge. William Wordsworth
25 Sonnets from the Portuguese XLIII, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
26 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot
27 Cargoes, John Masefield
28 Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll
29 from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Part I, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
30 Ozymandias of Egypt, Percy Bysshe Shelley
31 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost
32 Abou Ben Adhem, Leigh Hunt
33 Everyone Sang, Siegfried Sassoon
34 The Windhover, Gerard Manley Hopkins
35 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas
36 Sonnet; 18, William Shakespeare
37 When You Are Old, W.B. Yeats
38 Lessons of the War (To Alan Michell); 1. Naming of Parts, Henry Reed
39 The Darkling Thrush, Thomas Hardy
40 Please Mrs Butler, Allan Ahlberg
41 Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
42 Home-Thoughts, from Abroad, Robert Browning
43 High Flight (An Airman’s Ecstasy), John Gillespie Magee
44 Journey of the Magi, T.S. Eliot
45 The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Edward Lear
46 The Glory of the Garden, Rudyard Kipling
47 The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost
48 The Way through the Woods, Rudyard Kipling
49 Anthem for Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen
50 Bloody Men, Wendy Cope
1 If -, Rudyard Kipling
2 The Lady of Shalott, Alfred, Lord Tennyson
3 The Listeners, Walter de la Mare
4 Not Waving but Drowning, Stevie Smith
5 The Daffodils, William Wordsworth
6 To Autumn, John Keats
7 The Lake Isle of Innisfree, W.B. Yeats
8 Dulce et Decorum Est, Wilfred Owen
9 Ode to a Nightingale, John Keats
10 He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven, W.B. Yeats
11 Remember, Christina Rossetti
12 Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard, Thomas Gray
13 Fern Hill, Dylan Thomas
14 Leisure, William Henry Davies
15 The Highwayman, Alfred Noyes
16 To His Coy Mistress, Andrew Marvel
17 Dover Beach, Matthew Arnold
18 The Tyger, William Blake
19 Twelve Songs IX, W.H. Auden
20 Adlestrop, Edward Thomas
21 The Soldier, Rupert Brooke
22 Warning, Jenny Joseph
23 Sea-Fever, John Masefield
24 Upon Westminster Bridge. William Wordsworth
25 Sonnets from the Portuguese XLIII, Elizabeth Barrett Browning
26 The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, T.S. Eliot
27 Cargoes, John Masefield
28 Jabberwocky, Lewis Carroll
29 from The Rime of the Ancient Mariner Part I, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
30 Ozymandias of Egypt, Percy Bysshe Shelley
31 Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening, Robert Frost
32 Abou Ben Adhem, Leigh Hunt
33 Everyone Sang, Siegfried Sassoon
34 The Windhover, Gerard Manley Hopkins
35 Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas
36 Sonnet; 18, William Shakespeare
37 When You Are Old, W.B. Yeats
38 Lessons of the War (To Alan Michell); 1. Naming of Parts, Henry Reed
39 The Darkling Thrush, Thomas Hardy
40 Please Mrs Butler, Allan Ahlberg
41 Kubla Khan, Samuel Taylor Coleridge
42 Home-Thoughts, from Abroad, Robert Browning
43 High Flight (An Airman’s Ecstasy), John Gillespie Magee
44 Journey of the Magi, T.S. Eliot
45 The Owl and the Pussy-Cat, Edward Lear
46 The Glory of the Garden, Rudyard Kipling
47 The Road Not Taken, Robert Frost
48 The Way through the Woods, Rudyard Kipling
49 Anthem for Doomed Youth, Wilfred Owen
50 Bloody Men, Wendy Cope