Post your favorite poem (by yourself or others)

[Irieguy]

Great thread, suzzer.

Like my favorite song, my favorite poem changes every day. But if I were asked this question a hundred times, I imagine Edwin Arlington Robinson would be the author of the poem I chose more often than anyone else. Mr. Flood's Party has always been my favorite of his, but oddly today I prefer Richard Cory.


Richard Cory


Whenever Richard Cory went down town,
We people on the pavement looked at him:
He was a gentleman from sole to crown,
Clean-favoured and imperially slim.

And he was always quietly arrayed,
And he was always human when he talked;
But still he fluttered pulses when he said,
"Good Morning!" and he glittered when he walked.

And he was rich, yes, richer than a king,
And admirably schooled in every grace:
In fine -- we thought that he was everything
To make us wish that we were in his place.

So on we worked and waited for the light,
And went without the meat and cursed the bread,
And Richard Cory, one calm summer night,
Went home and put a bullet in his head.

Edwin Arlington Robinson