- "The Epic of Gilgamesh" (Ancient Mesopotamia)
- "Beowulf" (Anglo-Saxon England)
- "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey" (Ancient Greece)
- "The Aeneid" (Ancient Rome)
- "The Divine Comedy" (Dante Alighieri)
- "Canterbury Tales" (Geoffrey Chaucer)
- "Sonnets" (William Shakespeare)
- "Paradise Lost" (John Milton)
- "Leaves of Grass" (Walt Whitman)
- "The Waste Land" (T.S. Eliot)
- "Harlem" (Langston Hughes)
- "Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening" (Robert Frost)
These are just a few examples, and there are many more poems from different cultures and time periods that have impacted literature and society.