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The Complete Poems
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Emily Dickinson
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 35,200 ratings
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Leaves of Grass
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Walt Whitman
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 37,476 ratings
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HEARTFELT BARING ALL
by
Teresa Joseph Franklin
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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The Waste Land and Other Poems
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T.S. Eliot
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 21,712 ratings
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Shakespeare's Sonnets
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William Shakespeare
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 35,089 ratings
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Ariel
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Sylvia Plath
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 17,612 ratings
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Howl and Other Poems
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Allen Ginsberg
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 33,817 ratings
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
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Pablo Neruda
4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 14,501 ratings
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The Complete Poems
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John Keats
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 9,174 ratings
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The Raven and Other Poems
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Edgar Allan Poe
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 18,930 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 — 15,163 ratings
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The Collected Poems
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W.B. Yeats
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 15,626 ratings
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Voices in My Head
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Cindy J. Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.85 of 5 stars 4.85 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Wôld, Wôld, Wôld
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Martinus Hendrikus Benders
4.92 of 5 stars 4.92 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Paradise Lost
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John Milton
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 55,610 ratings
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100 Selected Poems
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E.E. Cummings
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 11,697 ratings
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Four Quartets
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T.S. Eliot
4.36 of 5 stars 4.36 avg rating — 6,192 ratings
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The Collected Poems
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Sylvia Plath
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 16,453 ratings
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The Collected Poems
by
Wallace Stevens
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 5,312 ratings
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
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Shel Silverstein
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 659,869 ratings
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The Collected Poems
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Langston Hughes
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 7,230 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 — 19,241 ratings
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Lunch Poems
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Frank O'Hara
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 2,932 ratings
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Essential Rumi
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Rumi
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 15,382 ratings
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The Collected Poems, Vol. 1: 1909-1939
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William Carlos Williams
4.19 of 5 stars 4.19 avg rating — 3,304 ratings
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John Donne's Poetry
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John Donne
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 3,962 ratings
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Duino Elegies
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Rainer Maria Rilke
4.45 of 5 stars 4.45 avg rating — 2,827 ratings
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The Divine Comedy
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Dante Alighieri
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 41,247 ratings
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Collected Poems, Prose, and Plays (Library of America #81)
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Robert Frost
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 2,252 ratings
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Illuminations
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Arthur Rimbaud
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 3,223 ratings
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Collected Poems
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Dylan Thomas
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 8,645 ratings
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The Complete Poems
by
Anne Sexton
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 7,225 ratings
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Les Fleurs du Mal
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Charles Baudelaire
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 15,695 ratings
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The Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
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Gerard Manley Hopkins
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 602 ratings
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The Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer
3.44 of 5 stars 3.44 avg rating — 81,805 ratings
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
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Robert Frost
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 19,711 ratings
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The Selected Poetry
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Rainer Maria Rilke
4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 6,901 ratings
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Poems New and Collected
by
Wisława Szymborska
4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 1,105 ratings
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The Complete Poems, 1927-1979
by
Elizabeth Bishop
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 5,578 ratings
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The Prophet
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Kahlil Gibran
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 77,246 ratings
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Prufrock and Other Observations
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T.S. Eliot
4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 580 ratings
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The Dream Songs
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John Berryman
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 3,048 ratings
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100 Love Sonnets
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Pablo Neruda
4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 6,503 ratings
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The Complete Poetry and Prose
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William Blake
4.24 of 5 stars 4.24 avg rating — 7,630 ratings
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Beowulf: A New Verse Translation
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Unknown
3.35 of 5 stars 3.35 avg rating — 95,544 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 — 8,652 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 — 5,043 ratings
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Transformations
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Anne Sexton
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 2,409 ratings
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Collected Poems
by
Philip Larkin
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 3,851 ratings
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The Portable Dorothy Parker
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Dorothy Parker
4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 5,602 ratings
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Rainy Day Poems
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James McDonald (Goodreads Author)
4.61 of 5 stars 4.61 avg rating — 71 ratings
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A Coney Island of the Mind
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Lawrence Ferlinghetti
4.16 of 5 stars 4.16 avg rating — 5,101 ratings
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Crush
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Richard Siken
4.55 of 5 stars 4.55 avg rating — 2,678 ratings
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Collected Poems
by
Edna St. Vincent Millay
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 4,236 ratings
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The Complete Poems
by
Hart Crane
4.2 of 5 stars 4.20 avg rating — 1,255 ratings
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Metamorphoses
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Ovid
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 21,327 ratings
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Selected Poems
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George Gordon Byron
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 5,613 ratings
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Paterson
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William Carlos Williams
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 1,180 ratings
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The Collected Poems
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Theodore Roethke
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 2,265 ratings
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Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror
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John Ashbery (Goodreads Author)
4.13 of 5 stars 4.13 avg rating — 1,711 ratings
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The Major Works
by
William Wordsworth
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 3,027 ratings
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Above the River: The Complete Poems
by
James Wright
4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 816 ratings
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Picnic, Lightning
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Billy Collins
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 2,230 ratings
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The Fact of a Doorframe: Poems Selected and New, 1950-1984
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Adrienne Rich
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 1,503 ratings
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Selected Poems
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W.H. Auden
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 3,175 ratings
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Selected Poems
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William Carlos Williams
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 6,651 ratings
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War All the Time
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Charles Bukowski
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 1,096 ratings
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Chicago Poems
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Carl Sandburg
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 979 ratings
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New and Selected Poems, Vol. 1
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Mary Oliver
4.53 of 5 stars 4.53 avg rating — 4,184 ratings
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Collected Poems
by
C.P. Cavafy
4.39 of 5 stars 4.39 avg rating — 1,188 ratings
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The First Death
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Dimitris Lyacos
4.95 of 5 stars 4.95 avg rating — 21 ratings
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Collected Sonnets
by
Edna St. Vincent Millay
4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 436 ratings
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The Complete Collected Poems
by
Maya Angelou
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 3,037 ratings
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A Book of Luminous Things: An International Anthology of Poetry
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Czesław Miłosz (Editor)
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 964 ratings
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Selected Poems
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Paul Celan
4.58 of 5 stars 4.58 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Song of Myself
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Walt Whitman
4.15 of 5 stars 4.15 avg rating — 4,661 ratings
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The Selected Poems
by
Federico García Lorca
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 3,181 ratings
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Stranger Music: Selected Poems and Songs
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Leonard Cohen
4.37 of 5 stars 4.37 avg rating — 1,339 ratings
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The Poetry of Pablo Neruda
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Pablo Neruda
4.44 of 5 stars 4.44 avg rating — 8,106 ratings
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The Iliad & The Odyssey
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Homer
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 18,544 ratings
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The World Doesn't End
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Charles Simic
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 1,053 ratings
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The Branch Will Not Break
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James Wright
4.47 of 5 stars 4.47 avg rating — 547 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 — 21,676 ratings
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Selected Poems
by
Marina Tsvetaeva
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 1,527 ratings
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The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-1950
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T.S. Eliot
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 2,193 ratings
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The Aeneid
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Virgil
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 40,618 ratings
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The Complete Poems
by
Anna Akhmatova
4.42 of 5 stars 4.42 avg rating — 2,318 ratings
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Selected Poems
by
Robert Creeley
4.28 of 5 stars 4.28 avg rating — 327 ratings
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Z213: EXIT
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Dimitris Lyacos
4.75 of 5 stars 4.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
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New and Collected Poems: 1931-2001
by
Czesław Miłosz
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 752 ratings
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Complete Poems of D. H. Lawrence
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D.H. Lawrence
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 816 ratings
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95 Poems
by
E.E. Cummings
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 854 ratings
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رباعيات خيام
by
Omar Khayyám
4.23 of 5 stars 4.23 avg rating — 5,552 ratings
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Diving Into the Wreck: Poems, 1971-1972
by
Adrienne Rich
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 3,098 ratings
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Death of a Naturalist
by
Seamus Heaney
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 634 ratings
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The Selected Poems, 1968-1995
by
Nikki Giovanni
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 501 ratings
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New and Selected Poems, 1974-1994
by
Stephen Dunn
4.43 of 5 stars 4.43 avg rating — 319 ratings
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Shelley's Poetry and Prose
by
Donald H. Reiman (Editor)
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,833 ratings
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The Iliad
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Homer
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 125,788 ratings
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The Waste Land
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T.S. Eliot
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 16,994 ratings
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