She Walks in Beauty by George Byron
Lines on Seeing Schiller’s Skull (trans. from German) by Johann Goethe
The Remembrance of the Good (trans. from German) by Johann Goethe
The Spirit’s Salute (trans. from German) by Johann Goethe
The Way to Behave (trans. from German) by Johann Goethe
Thoughts on Jesus Christ’s Descent into Hell (trans. from German) by Johann Goethe
The Traveler and the Farm-Maiden (trans. from German) by Johann Goethe.
Winter Journey Over the Hartz Mountain (trans. from German) by Johann Goethe
Dream Deferred by Langston Hughes
Let America be America Again by Langston Hughes
Quiet Girl by Langston Hughes
La Belle Dame sans Merci by John Keats
Ode on a Grecian Urn by John Keats (In my top ten).
Ode on Melancholy by John Keats
Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
The Human Seasons by John Keats
To Hope by John Keats
Poetry (trans. from Spanish) by Pablo Neruda
The Ideal and the Actual Life (trans. from German) by Friedrich Schiller
The Pilgrim (trans. from German) by Friedrich Schiller
The Power of Woman (trans. from German) by Friedrich Schiller
The Secret (trans. from German) by Friedrich Schiller
The Virtue of Woman (trans. from German) by Friedrich Schiller
The Words of Belief (trans. from German) by Friedrich Schiller
To a World-Reformer (trans. from German) by Friedrich Schiller
Worth and the Worthy (trans. from German) by Friedrich Schiller
Written in a Young Lady’s Album (trans. from German) by Friedrich Schiller
Wandering at Morn by Walt Whitman
What General Has a Good Army by Walt Whitman
The Wound Dresser by Walt Whitman (I love how an excerpt from this poem is chiseled in the stone above the escalator at the DuPont Metro stop in Washington, D.C.)
Years of the Modern by Walt Whitman
Many more to come. Will be further updated.
