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"For poems are not, as people think, simply emotions (one has emotions early enough)—they are experiences."
—Rainer Maria Rilke
Poets.org currently features more than 2,500 poems, with new ones being added all the time. You can search for text within a poem, or browse the list by title, author, or first line. Sign up for the Poets.org Update to receive monthly e-mail updates, including news about the poets, poems, and features most recently added to Poets.org. |
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Poems for Every Occasion |
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Need a poem for a special occasion? Browse through our list of Poems for Every Occasion to find poems for weddings, anniversaries, birthdays, and many other of life's biggest moments. |
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Most Popular Classic Poems |
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Fall 2007
1. Do not go gentle into that good night 
by Dylan Thomas
2. The Road Not Taken
by Robert Frost
3. I Love You
by Sara Teasdale
4. Because I could not stop for Death (712)
by Emily Dickinson
5. The Negro Speaks of Rivers
by Langston Hughes
6. It's all I have to bring today
by Emily Dickinson
7. I, Too, Sing America
by Langston Hughes
8. This Is Just To Say
by William Carlos Williams
9. True Love
by Robert Penn Warren
10. My mistress' eyes are nothing like the sun
by William Shakespeare
11. Mending Wall
by Robert Frost
12. The Definition of Love
by Andrew Marvell
13. O Captain! My Captain!
by Walt Whitman
14. The Unknown Citizen
by W. H. Auden
15. Birches
by Robert Frost
(Popularity based on Poets.org traffic data.) |
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Good Reads |
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February 2008
National Book Critics Circle Favorites
As an alternative to bestseller lists, the NBCC polled their 800 members, award finalists, and winners about new books they loved.
See the NBCC blog, Critical Mass, for a
complete set of lists, comments from voters, and recommendations. |
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Newest Poems Added to Poets.org |
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The Shout by Simon Armitage
We went out / into the school yard together, me and the boy...
Problems with Hurricanes by Victor Hernández Cruz
A campesino looked at the air...
Seeing All the Vermeers by Alfred Corn
Met Museum, 1965, the first...
Words from the Front by Ron Padgett
We don’t look as young / as we used to...
The Role of Elegy by Mary Jo Bang
The role of elegy is / To put a death mask on tragedy...
The Healing Improvisation of Hair by Jay Wright
If you undo your do you would / be strange...
Seventeen Questions About King Kong
by Jane Cooper
Is it a myth? And if so, what does it tell us about ourselves?...
Saint Francis and the Sow by Galway Kinnell
The bud / stands for all things...
The Rape of Proserpina by Ovid
Vigorous Sicily sprawled across the gigantic body...
Persephone, Falling by Rita Dove
One narcissus among the ordinary beautiful...
Hades' Pitch by Rita Dove
If I could just touch your ankle, he whispers, there...
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Most Popular Modern Poems |
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Fall 2007
1.
We Real Cool
by Gwendolyn Brooks
2. "What Do Women Want?"
by Kim Addonizio
3. A Blessing
by James Wright
4. One Art
by Elizabeth Bishop
5. When a Woman Loves a Man
by David Lehman
6. Daddy
by Sylvia Plath
7. The Writer
by Richard Wilbur
8. Safe Sex
by Donald Hall
9. Credo
by Matthew Rohrer
10. Heart's Needle
by W. D. Snodgrass
11. Diving into the Wreck
by Adrienne Rich
12. Howl
by Allen Ginsberg
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Her Kind
by Anne Sexton
14. A Book Of Music
by Jack Spicer
15. Autumn Begins in Martins Ferry, Ohio
by James Wright
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