CLC’S BEST POEMS OF ALL TIME
To celebrate World Poetry Day on Sunday 21st March, pupils and staff were asked to nominate their favourite poems, with the top 20 entries forming the CLC’s Best Poems of All Time.
This has been a fantastic opportunity for pupils and staff to discover new poems, as well as celebrate poems ones that have long been dearly loved.
CLC’s Top 20 Poems are listed below in order of votes received:
- Still I rise - Maya Angelou
- If– - Rudyard Kipling
- The Road not Taken - Robert Frost
- Ozymandias - Percy Shelley
- Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night - Dylan Thomas
- Joseph Warning - Jenny
- Invictus - William Ernest Henley
- The Hill We Climb - Amanda Gorman
- The Tyger - William Blake
- I am - John Clare
- As I Walked Out One Evening - WH Auden
- BC:AD - U. A. Fanthorpe
- Citizen of the World - Dave Calder
- Dulce et Decorum Est - Wilfred Owen
- First Loves - John Clare
- Funeral Blues - WH Auden
- I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud - William Wordsworth
- The Lake Isle of Innisfree - WB Yeats
- The Song of the Wandering Aengus - WB Yeats
- Two-Headed Calf - Laura Gilpin