Top 10 Poems

• Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare 

  Annabel Lee by Edgar Allen Poe

  Take Me Home Country Road by John Denver

  Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen  

  The Odyssey by Homer

  The Lake Isle of Innisfree by William Butler Yeats 

  The Lesson by Maya Angelou
  

  Antigone by Sophocles 

  Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare 

  Wynken, Blynken, and Nod by Eugene Field 

   

  Wynken, Blynken, and Nod one night

  Sailed off in a wooden shoe,--

  Sailed on a river of crystal light

  Into a sea of dew.

  "Where are you going, and what do you wish?"

  The old moon asked the three.

  "We have come to fish for the herring-fish

  That live in this beautiful sea;

  Nets of silver and gold have we,"

  Said Wynken,

  Blynken,

  And Nod.

   

  The old moon laughed and sang a song,

  As they rocked in the wooden shoe;

  And the wind that sped them all night long

  Ruffled the waves of dew;

  The little stars were the herring-fish

  That lived in the beautiful sea.

  "Now cast your nets wherever you wish,--

  Never afeard are we!"

  So cried the stars to the fishermen three,

  Wynken,

  Blynken,

  And Nod.

   

  All night long their nets they threw

  To the stars in the twinkling foam,--

  Then down from the skies came the wooden shoe,

  Bringing the fishermen home:

  'T was all so pretty a sail, it seemed

  As if it could not be;

  And some folk thought 't was a dream they'd dreamed

  Of sailing that beautiful sea;

  But I shall name you the fishermen three:

  Wynken,

  Blynken,

  And Nod.

   

  Wynken and Blynken are two little eyes,

  And Nod is a little head,

  And the wooden shoe that sailed the skies

  Is a wee one's trundle-bed;

  So shut your eyes while Mother sings

  Of wonderful sights that be,

  And you shall see the beautiful things

  As you rock on the misty sea

  Where the old shoe rocked the fishermen three,--

  Wynken,

  Blynken,

  And Nod.