What's everyone's favourite poem?

From The Terry Fox Story movie. A Tribute poem to Terry Fox who ran half way across Canada to raise money for cancer research---They say the dragon never sleeps, he stalks his prey in the silence cold

and when he strikes, it is with much fire in his venom

one night in carelessness the dragon dared to sieze a knight born of the son

the bite burned deep right to the soul, snake held fast, damage done

but death, could not win

for though the fire had pierced him through, knight of the sun held strong and true.

the fever broke, serpeant fled,

the knight arose, these words he spoke

you have killed my body but not my soul

beware dread beast for my quest has just begun..

Annabel Lee -- Edgar Allan Poe

I'm a big John Milton fan, and strictly speaking 'Paradise Lost' is my favorite poem. It's extremely long though, and my second favorite is also one of his, a shorter one.

Sonnet 23

Methought I saw my late espoused saint

Brought to me, like Alcestis, from the grave,

Whom Jove's great son to her glad husband gave,

Rescu'd from death by force, though pale and faint.

Mine, as whom wash'd from spot of child-bed taint

Purification in the old Law did save,

And such as yet once more I trust to have

Full sight of her in Heaven without restraint,

Came vested all in white, pure as her mind;

Her face was veil'd, yet to my fancied sight

Love, sweetness, goodness, in her person shin'd

So clear as in no face with more delight.

But Oh! as to embrace me she inclin'd,

I wak'd, she fled, and day brought back my night.

Lol, poems. 😆