The Poems You Wish To Hear

' The Three Kings ' - A Poem by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote this poem in 1877 to tell the story of the wise men travelling to meet Jesus at his birth.

' One Art ' - A Poem by Elizabeth Bishop

'One Art' is a poem by American poet Elizabeth Bishop, originally published in The New Yorker in 1976.

'And Still I rise' by Maya Angelou

And Still I Rise is author Maya Angelou's third volume of poetry, published by Random House in 1978. It was published during one of the most productive periods in Angelou's career; she had written three autobiographies and published two other volumes of poetry up to that point.

' Pad, Pad ' - A Poem by Stevie Smith.

‘Pad, Pad’ is written by the English poet Florence Margaret Smith, also known as Stevie Smith. This poem deals with the separation of two lovers and how the speaker feels long after the break-up.

'Love' - A Poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The poem Love is one of Coleridge's most interesting and beautiful love-poems. It is written in the form of a ballad and describes a story within a story. In this poem, the lover is attempting to gain his desire by appealing to the tender emotions of his object. He sings her a song about the days of chivalry, in which a knight saved a lady from an “outrage worst than death” (whatever that is), is wounded and eventually dies in her arms. The poet’s beloved, on hearing the story, is deeply moved to tears and, to make the story not as long as the original, succumbs.