What jumps into your mind when you think of the most famous poems ever written ... With these relatively short poems, you'll ...

"Don't count your chickens before they hatch," "The early bird catches the worm" — these and other proverbs are poems ...

The word poetry typically sparks thoughts of love poems ... or "There was a (someone) who (something) ..." One of the most famous opening lines is: "There once was a man from Nantucket ...

By Tas Tobey Tas Tobey is on the staff of the Book Review and is studying poetry in the M.F.A. program ... leans toward single stanzas broken into short lines and succinct, staccato sentences ...