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What are the top 10 best and greatest poems of all time?

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This is a very difficult question, and the answer is more or less subjective.
I am a poetry lover and writer, and world poetry is my oyster.

Poetry is not a turning loose of emotion, but an escape from emotion; it is not the expression of personality but an escape from personality. But, of course, only those who have personality and emotion know what it means to want to escape from these.” – T.S. Eliot, Tradition and the Individual Talent, 1912

The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot

A Bird, came down the Walk by Emily Dickinson

The Kingdom of Poetry by Delmore Schwartz

The Tyger by William Blake

I wandered lonely as a cloud by William Wordsworth

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Ulysses by Alfred Lord Tennyson

He Wishes for the Cloths of Heaven by William Butler Yeats

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe

If You Forget Me by Pablo Neruda

Art – Hermann Hendrich