An Ode to Odes

Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

"i walk in beauty like the night," said she.

When you are old and nothing gold can stay,

Let love count ways in Sonnet 43.

In love's young dream, I heard an angel cry

In high flight, "I'm Nobody! Who are you?"

I am the captain of my soul, now fly,

Good albatross, in the rime, guide me through.

To my coy mistress, our love nevermore,

La belle dame sans merci, a red, red rose,

A fleeting passion in the soldier's war,

In the end, still I rise, and so it goes.

I'll sing ode to a chestnut on the ground,

Once paradise lost is paradise found.

An Ode to Odes—Poets and Poems

William Shakespeare—Sonnet 18

Lord Byron—She Walks In Beauty, E.E. Cummings—may i feel said he

William Butler Yeats—When You Are Old, Robert Frost—Nothing Gold Can Stay

Elizabeth Barret Browning—How Do I Love Thee? (Sonnet 43)

Thomas Moore—Love's Young Dream, William Blake—I Heard An Angel

John Magee—High Flight, Emily Dickinson –I'm Nobody! Who are you?

William Ernest Henley—Invictus

Samuel Taylor Coleridge—The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Andrew Marvell—To His Coy Mistress, Edgar Allan Poe—The Raven

John Keats—La Belle Dame sans Merci, Robert Burns—A Red, Red Rose

William Henry Davies—A Fleeting Passion, Rupert Brooke—The Soldier

Maya Angelou—Still I Rise, Billy Joel—And So It Goes

Pablo Neruda—Ode to a Chestnut on the Ground

John Milton—Paradise Lost

AN: Though the title may suggest otherwise, this poem is actually a sonnet.