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Milk and honey (Paperback)
by (shelved 24316 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.96 — 784,050 ratings — published 2014
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14240 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,488,874 ratings — published 1974
The Sun and Her Flowers (Paperback)
by (shelved 14206 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.08 — 366,682 ratings — published 2018
The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 10520 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.82 — 157,106 ratings — published 2016
Leaves of Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 10246 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.11 — 115,162 ratings — published 1855
Ariel (Paperback)
by (shelved 8916 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.19 — 87,500 ratings — published 1965
Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Paperback)
by (shelved 8221 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,421 ratings — published 2016
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Paperback)
by (shelved 7552 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.28 — 105,938 ratings — published 1890
A Light in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7033 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.36 — 472,043 ratings — published 1981
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 7020 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,164,783 ratings — published -700
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6970 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.13 — 117,850 ratings — published 1956
Crush (Paperback)
by (shelved 6611 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.34 — 41,440 ratings — published 2005
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 6525 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.50 — 339,777 ratings — published 1000
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 6200 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.85 — 178,908 ratings — published 1667
Home Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 6118 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.06 — 153,899 ratings — published 2020
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Paperback)
by (shelved 6031 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.20 — 80,249 ratings — published 1924
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6004 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.37 — 139,475 ratings — published 2018
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5897 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 498,343 ratings — published -800
The Waste Land and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 5774 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.22 — 73,019 ratings — published 1922
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 5564 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 111,018 ratings — published 1609
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 5542 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.20 — 78,427 ratings — published 1857
The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
by (shelved 5324 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.73 — 48,675 ratings — published 2018
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5058 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.56 — 27,131 ratings — published 2017
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5012 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.23 — 323,002 ratings — published 1923
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4946 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.40 — 292,531 ratings — published 1849
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 4909 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.26 — 51,005 ratings — published 2014
A Thousand Mornings: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4883 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.20 — 30,778 ratings — published 2012
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4849 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.43 — 21,006 ratings — published -550
Time Is a Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4758 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.92 — 34,901 ratings — published 2022
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 4594 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.09 — 51,193 ratings — published 1794
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4501 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.03 — 201,868 ratings — published 1320
The Collected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 4363 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 50,058 ratings — published 1981
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4347 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.28 — 115,919 ratings — published 1929
Autobiography of Red (Paperback)
by (shelved 4346 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.26 — 35,027 ratings — published 1998
The Waste Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 4282 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.11 — 58,138 ratings — published 1922
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 4163 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.29 — 164,736 ratings — published 1845
The Essential Rumi (Paperback)
by (shelved 3958 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.39 — 50,170 ratings — published 1273
Salt (Paperback)
by (shelved 3956 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,103 ratings — published 2013
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3949 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 21,213 ratings — published 2011
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3930 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.08 — 168,452 ratings — published 1320
Falling Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3917 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.36 — 156,953 ratings — published 1996
Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)
by (shelved 3842 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.81 — 54,318 ratings — published 2017
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 3832 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.05 — 55,521 ratings — published 2009
Bright Dead Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 3792 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.19 — 13,980 ratings — published 2015
Love & Misadventure (Paperback)
by (shelved 3669 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 58,066 ratings — published 2013
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 3665 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.99 — 60,077 ratings — published 2020
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats (Paperback)
by (shelved 3658 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.23 — 39,837 ratings — published 1933
The Poetry of Robert Frost (Paperback)
by (shelved 3462 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 49,077 ratings — published 1969
Brown Girl Dreaming (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3461 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.15 — 92,142 ratings — published 2014
Call Us What We Carry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3429 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.26 — 25,863 ratings — published 2021
“I carry your heart with me (I carry it in my heart)I am never without it (anywhere
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
―
I go you go,my dear; and whatever is done by only me is your doing,my darling)
I fear no fate (for you are my fate,my sweet)I want no world (for beautiful you are my world,my true)
and it's you are whatever a moon has always meant and whatever a sun will always sing is you
here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud and the sky of the sky of a tree called life; which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart
I carry your heart (I carry it in my heart)”
―
“You do not have to be good.
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
―
You do not have to walk on your knees
for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting.
You only have to let the soft animal of your body
love what it loves.
Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine.
Meanwhile the world goes on.
Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain
are moving across the landscapes,
over the prairies and the deep trees,
the mountains and the rivers.
Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air,
are heading home again.
Whoever you are, no matter how lonely,
the world offers itself to your imagination,
calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting –
over and over announcing your place
in the family of things.”
―
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