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Shakespeare's Sonnets
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William Shakespeare
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 35,301 ratings
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The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
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Robert Frost
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 12,583 ratings
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Complete Poems
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Edgar Allan Poe
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 3,276 ratings
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Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
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Emily Dickinson
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 35,409 ratings
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Leaves of Grass
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Walt Whitman
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 37,606 ratings
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The Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 82,034 ratings
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A Poetry Collection
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E.E. Cummings
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
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William Blake
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 15,219 ratings
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
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Dylan Thomas
4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 78 ratings
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Works of William Butler Yeats
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W.B. Yeats
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 15,719 ratings
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The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose
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T.S. Eliot
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 96 ratings
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The Complete Poems
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William Blake
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 2,842 ratings
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The Iliad & The Odyssey
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Homer
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 18,741 ratings
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The Divine Comedy
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Dante Alighieri
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 41,480 ratings
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The Works of John Donne
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John Donne
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 192 ratings
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My Last Duchess and Other Poems
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Robert Browning
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 1,930 ratings
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
by
Unknown
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 97,959 ratings
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Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening
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Robert Frost
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 4,052 ratings
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The Complete Poems
by
John Keats
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 9,231 ratings
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
by
T.S. Eliot
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 6,628 ratings
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 19,351 ratings
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John Keats: The Major Works: Including Endymion, the Odes and Selected Letters
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John Keats
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Goblin Market
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Christina Rossetti
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 3,102 ratings
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Poems and Other Writings (Library of America #118)
by
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 210 ratings
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Collected Poems
by
Edna St. Vincent Millay
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 4,251 ratings
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The Complete Sonnets and Poems
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William Shakespeare
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 35,301 ratings
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Paradise Lost
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John Milton
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 55,883 ratings
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The Unwords
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Non Nomen (Goodreads Author)
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Lorca: Selected Poems
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Federico García Lorca
3.5 of 5 stars 3.50 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Illuminations
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Arthur Rimbaud
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 3,253 ratings
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Collected Works Of Edna St. Vincent Millay
by
Edna St. Vincent Millay
4.63 of 5 stars 4.63 avg rating — 65 ratings
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An Elegy Written In A Country Churchyard
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Thomas Gray
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 134 ratings
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The Collected Poems
by
Langston Hughes
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 7,278 ratings
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Poems
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Sylvia Plath
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 1,354 ratings
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The Complete Poems
by
Walt Whitman
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 1,541 ratings
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The Major Works
by
William Wordsworth
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 3,040 ratings
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Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 604 ratings
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The Flowers of Evil (The 100 Greatest Books Ever Written)
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Charles Baudelaire
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 15,766 ratings
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Howl
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Allen Ginsberg
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 1,243 ratings
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Dover Beach and Other Poems
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Matthew Arnold
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 422 ratings
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The Odyssey
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Homer
3.64 of 5 stars 3.64 avg rating — 451,539 ratings
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The Second Coming
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W.B. Yeats
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems
by
Wallace Stevens
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 95 ratings
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Idylls of the King
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Alfred Tennyson
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 3,760 ratings
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Robert Browning's Poetry (Norton Critical Editions)
by
Robert Browning
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 1,980 ratings
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Chicago Poems
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Carl Sandburg
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 984 ratings
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The Lady Of Shalott
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Alfred Tennyson
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 6,966 ratings
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Easter 1916 and Other Poems
by
W.B. Yeats
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 134 ratings
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The Complete Poems
by
Percy Bysshe Shelley
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 3,606 ratings
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Excursions, Translations, and Poems
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Henry David Thoreau
4.62 of 5 stars 4.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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She Walks in Beauty
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George Gordon Byron
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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T.S. Eliot
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 8,706 ratings
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As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks & Other Light Verse
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W.H. Auden
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 167 ratings
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Complete Poems
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Marianne Moore
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 1,246 ratings
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The Cantos
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Ezra Pound
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 2,557 ratings
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The Complete Poems
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Sappho (Editor)
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 1,636 ratings
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Tennyson: Including Lotos Eaters, Ulysses, Ode on the Death, Maud, the Coming and the Passing of Arthur
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Alfred Tennyson
4.11 of 5 stars 4.11 avg rating — 37 ratings
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To A Sky Lark (Phoenix 60p Paperbacks)
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 5,080 ratings
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Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems
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Fernando Pessoa (Author)
4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 349 ratings
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Tennyson's Poetry
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Alfred Tennyson
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 3,152 ratings
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Fern Hill
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Dylan Thomas
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Darkling Thrush
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Thomas Hardy
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Works of William Wordsworth (Wordsworth Collection)
by
William Wordsworth
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 578 ratings
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Ode on a Grecian Urn, the Eve of St. Agnes, and Other Poems (1901)
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John Keats
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Invictus
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William Ernest Henley
4.58 of 5 stars 4.58 avg rating — 111 ratings
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A Red, Red Rose. The Love Poems of Robert Burns in Original Scots and Modern English
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Robert Burns
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 10 ratings
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Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Die
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Maya Angelou
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 231 ratings
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Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
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Unknown
3.63 of 5 stars 3.63 avg rating — 21,795 ratings
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Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage ... New Edition
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George Gordon Byron
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 444 ratings
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Duino Elegies/The Sonnets of Orpheus
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Rainer Maria Rilke
4.52 of 5 stars 4.52 avg rating — 754 ratings
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Collected Narrative and Lyrical Poetry
by
Alexander Pushkin
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Faerie Queene
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Edmund Spenser
3.49 of 5 stars 3.49 avg rating — 7,148 ratings
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Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
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W.B. Yeats (Editor)
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 1,733 ratings
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Pied Beauty: A Selection Of Poems
by
Gerard Manley Hopkins
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 6 ratings
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The Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne
by
Algernon Charles Swinburne
3.91 of 5 stars 3.91 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood
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William Wordsworth
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 154 ratings
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A Coney Island of the Mind
by
Lawrence Ferlinghetti
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 5,137 ratings
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
by
Pablo Neruda
4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 14,589 ratings
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Collected Poems
by
Stevie Smith
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 189 ratings
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A Season in Hell/The Drunken Boat
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Arthur Rimbaud
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 4,001 ratings
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The Vision of Piers Plowman
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William Langland
3.34 of 5 stars 3.34 avg rating — 1,010 ratings
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Troilus and Criseyde
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Geoffrey Chaucer
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 2,524 ratings
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The Metaphysical Poets
by
Helen Louise Gardner (Editor & Compiler)
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 330 ratings
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The Selected Poetry
by
Robinson Jeffers
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 498 ratings
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The Listeners and Other Poems
by
Walter de la Mare
4.55 of 5 stars 4.55 avg rating — 11 ratings
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Collected Poems
by
Philip Larkin
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 3,872 ratings
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Love is a Dog from Hell
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Charles Bukowski
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 8,705 ratings
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Don Juan
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George Gordon Byron
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 3,138 ratings
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The Best Cigarette
by
Billy Collins
4.46 of 5 stars 4.46 avg rating — 123 ratings
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Save Twilight: Selected Poems
by
Julio Cortázar
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Selected Poems
by
Jorge Luis Borges
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 2,615 ratings
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Collected Poems, 1917-1982
by
Archibald MacLeish
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 26 ratings
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The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
by
Jon Silkin (Editor)
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 384 ratings
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The Carrier of Ladders
by
W.S. Merwin
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 87 ratings
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My Night Version and other Poems
by
Ebimoboere Boleigha (Goodreads Author)
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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The Divine Comedy
by
Dante Alighieri
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 41,480 ratings
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Familial: Selected Poems
by
John Lavan
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
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The Poet Blossomed
by
Matthew Ponticello
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Call Me by My True Names: The Collected Poems
by
Thich Nhat Hanh
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 143 ratings
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