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Where the Sidewalk Ends (Hardcover)
by Shel Silverstein (shelved 33 times as poems)
avg rating 4.25 — 189,700 ratings — published 1974
A Light in the Attic (Hardcover)
by Shel Silverstein (shelved 21 times as poems)
avg rating 4.32 — 25,252 ratings — published 1981
Falling Up (Hardcover)
by Shel Silverstein (shelved 16 times as poems)
avg rating 4.22 — 11,229 ratings — published 1963
Leaves of Grass (Enriched Classics)
by Walt Whitman (shelved 10 times as poems)
avg rating 4.10 — 8,685 ratings — published 1854
Ariel (Paperback)
by Sylvia Plath (shelved 9 times as poems)
avg rating 4.26 — 3,932 ratings — published 1961
Howl and Other Poems (Pocket Poets)
by Allen Ginsberg (shelved 9 times as poems)
avg rating 4.17 — 5,390 ratings — published 1956
The Waste Land and Other Poems (Paperback)
by T.S. Eliot (shelved 8 times as poems)
avg rating 4.29 — 2,780 ratings — published 1922
The Waste Land (Norton Critical Edition)
by T.S. Eliot (shelved 7 times as poems)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,416 ratings — published 1922
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats, Illustrated Edition (Hardcover)
by T.S. Eliot (shelved 6 times as poems)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,704 ratings — published 1939
Beowulf: A New Verse Translation (Paperback)
by Anonymous (shelved 6 times as poems)
avg rating 3.40 — 14,776 ratings — published 1000
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Paperback)
by Emily Dickinson (shelved 6 times as poems)
avg rating 4.31 — 4,274 ratings — published 1960
Wild Iris (Paperback)
by Louise Glück (shelved 6 times as poems)
avg rating 4.17 — 873 ratings — published 1992
Hujan Bulan Juni (Softcover)
by Sapardi Djoko Damono (shelved 6 times as poems)
avg rating 4.24 — 298 ratings — published 2003
Collected Poems 1934-1952 (Paperback)
by Dylan Thomas (shelved 5 times as poems)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,037 ratings — published 1952
Selected Poems (Paperback)
by William Carlos Williams (shelved 5 times as poems)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,012 ratings — published 1969
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by Sappho (shelved 5 times as poems)
avg rating 4.40 — 423 ratings — published 2002
Autobiography of Red (Paperback)
by Anne Carson (shelved 5 times as poems)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,990 ratings — published 1998
The Giving Tree (Hardcover)
by Shel Silverstein (shelved 5 times as poems)
avg rating 4.38 — 102,373 ratings — published 1964
The Colossus and Other Poems (Paperback)
by Sylvia Plath (shelved 5 times as poems)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,050 ratings — published 1957
Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems (Paperback)
by Billy Collins (shelved 5 times as poems)
avg rating 4.27 — 2,136 ratings — published 2001
The Complete Poems: Anne Sexton (Paperback)
by Anne Sexton (shelved 5 times as poems)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,884 ratings — published 1982
Duino Elegies (Paperback)
by Rainer Maria Rilke (shelved 5 times as poems)
avg rating 4.49 — 681 ratings — published 1987
Erosion (Princeton Series of Contemporary Poets)
by Jorie Graham (shelved 4 times as poems)
avg rating 4.19 — 136 ratings — published 1983
The Iliad (Paperback)
by Homer (shelved 4 times as poems)
avg rating 3.73 — 19,534 ratings — published -750
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 4 times as poems)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,978 ratings — published 1609
Songs of Innocence And of Experience (Paperback)
by William Blake (shelved 4 times as poems)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,930 ratings — published 1967
Actual Air (Paperback)
by David Berman (shelved 4 times as poems)
avg rating 4.34 — 881 ratings — published 1999
Good Poems (Paperback)
by Garrison Keillor (shelved 4 times as poems)
avg rating 4.23 — 897 ratings — published 2002
Love Poems & Sonnets of William Shakespeare (Hardcover)
by William Shakespeare (shelved 4 times as poems)
avg rating 4.20 — 2,815 ratings — published 1600
E.E. Cummings: Complete Poems 1904-1962 (Hardcover)
by e.e. cummings (shelved 4 times as poems)
avg rating 4.57 — 1,684 ratings — published 1992
Deepstep Come Shining (Paperback)
by C.D. Wright (shelved 4 times as poems)
avg rating 4.39 — 303 ratings — published 1998
The Moon Is Always Female: Poems (Paperback)
by Marge Piercy (shelved 4 times as poems)
avg rating 4.13 — 434 ratings — published 1980
Aku Ini Binatang Jalang (Paperback)
by Chairil Anwar (shelved 4 times as poems)
avg rating 3.77 — 409 ratings — published 1986
The City in Which I Love You (American Poets Continuum)
by Li-Young Lee (shelved 4 times as poems)
avg rating 4.27 — 603 ratings — published 1990
Crush (Yale Series of Younger Poets)
by Richard Siken (shelved 4 times as poems)
avg rating 4.52 — 690 ratings — published 2005
Diving into the Wreck: Poems 1971-1972 (Paperback)
by Adrienne Rich (shelved 4 times as poems)
avg rating 4.23 — 698 ratings — published 1973
100 Selected Poems by e. e. Cummings (Paperback)
by e.e. cummings (shelved 4 times as poems)
avg rating 4.41 — 2,598 ratings — published 1959
The Odyssey (Penguin Classics)
by Homer (shelved 3 times as poems)
avg rating 3.65 — 96,754 ratings — published -750
رباعيات خيام (Hardcover)
by حكيم عمر خيام نيشابوري (shelved 3 times as poems)
avg rating 4.34 — 757 ratings — published 1352
An Atlas of the Difficult World: Poems 1988-1991 (Paperback)
by Adrienne Rich (shelved 3 times as poems)
avg rating 4.22 — 264 ratings — published 1991
She Had Some Horses (Paperback)
by Joy Harjo (shelved 3 times as poems)
avg rating 4.23 — 236 ratings — published 1982
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by John Milton (shelved 3 times as poems)
avg rating 3.78 — 11,356 ratings — published 1667
The Wasteland, Prufrock and Other Poems (paper)
by T.S. Eliot (shelved 3 times as poems)
avg rating 4.30 — 674 ratings — published 1922
Plainwater: Essays and Poetry (Paperback)
by Anne Carson (shelved 3 times as poems)
avg rating 4.32 — 452 ratings — published 1995
Joyful Noise: Poems for Two Voices (Paperback)
by Paul Fleischman (shelved 3 times as poems)
avg rating 3.91 — 520 ratings — published 1988
The Complete Poems of John Keats (Modern Library)
by John Keats (shelved 3 times as poems)
avg rating 4.34 — 929 ratings — published 1906
The Missing Piece (Hardcover)
by Shel Silverstein (shelved 3 times as poems)
avg rating 4.22 — 5,725 ratings — published 1976
A Coney Island of the Mind: Poems (Paperback)
by Lawrence Ferlinghetti (shelved 3 times as poems)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,456 ratings — published 1958
The Collected Poems (Harper Colophon Books)
by Sylvia Plath (shelved 3 times as poems)
avg rating 4.28 — 2,471 ratings — published 1981
Walking to Martha's Vineyard (Paperback)
by Franz Wright (Goodreads author) (shelved 3 times as poems)
avg rating 4.05 — 320 ratings — published 2003
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"And what will you do now? You'll collect loves
Like stamps. You've got doubles and no one
Will trade you and you have the damaged ones."
— Yehuda Amichai
Like stamps. You've got doubles and no one
Will trade you and you have the damaged ones."
— Yehuda Amichai
"God would seem to indicate to us and not allow us to doubt that these beautiful poems are not human, or the work of man, but divine and the work of God; and that the poets are only the interpreters of the Gods..."
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