This anthology contains many of the finest short poems ever written by the world-famous poets, including Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Walt Whitman, Alfred Tennyson, Rudyard Kipling, William Blake, Robert Frost, James Joyce, William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Robert Burns, John Keats, Robert Louis Stevenson, etc. A short poem presents an opportunity to the reader to not simply read the poem, but to go over and over it, and finally memorize it. Then that poem the reader takes with them everywhere. It becomes part of oneself. And those lines are there for whatever time in life one may need them. Whether in this anthology, or in others like it, or in the collected poems of the respective poets, these poems are there and available to us all.