Ask HN: What is your favorite poem?

by milkcircleon 8/14/2019, 3:20:53 AM with 3 comments
  • by jppopeon 8/14/2019, 3:56:36 AM

    Ozymandias. https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/46565/ozymandias

    Stay humble.

  • by Causality1on 8/14/2019, 4:08:28 AM

    Rubáiyát by Omar Khayyám.

    He was a medieval Persian astronomer, mathematician, and poet who wrote poetry extolling hedonism and criticizing religion.

  • by gegnewon 8/14/2019, 6:05:27 AM

    T.S. Eliot's "Four Quartets"

    Time, memory, history, mysticism; these poems are everything.