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The most-recommended poetry titles in our index, ranked by how many people recommend each.
The Essential Rumi
Jalal Al Din Rumi · 2004
7 recommenders
The Odyssey of Homer
Homer · 2006
5 recommenders
Milk and Honey
Rupi Kaur · 2014
4 recommenders
Ariel: The Restored Edition
Sylvia Plath · 2005
Leaves of Grass
Walt Whitman · 2010
The War Poems of Wilfred Owen
Wilfred Owen, ed. John Stallworthy
3 recommenders
Too Much & Not In The Mood
Durga Chew-Bose · 2017
Collected Poems
Philip Larkin · 2004
The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats
William Butler Yeats · 1996
Book of Longing
Leonard Cohen · 2007
2 recommenders
The Dead and the Living
Sharon Olds · 1984
Lucille Clifton · 2012
Life Doesn't Frighten Me
Jean-Michel Basquiat & Maya Angelou · 1993
The Great Fires
Jack Gilbert · 1994
The Annotated Collected Poems
Edward Thomas, ed. Edna Longley
The Waste Land and Other Poems
T.S. Eliot · 2009
Metamorphoses
Ovid · 1479
The Hungry Ear
Kevin Young · 2012
There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé
Morgan Parker · 2017
The Long Take
Robin Robertson · 2018
Selected Poems
James Fenton · 2006
American Sonnets for My Past and Future Assassin
Terrance Hayes · 2018
The Dream of a Common Language
Adrienne Rich · 1993
Felon: Poems
Reginald Dwayne Betts · 2019
Deaf Republic
Ilya Kaminsky · 2019
Sun Under Wood
Robert Hass · 1996
Geography III: Poems
Elizabeth Bishop · 2015
Epic of Gilgamesh
Morris Jastrow · 2006
The Rose that Grew from Concrete
Tupac Shakur · 1999
1 recommender
Ode to Common Things
Pablo Neruda · 1994
Don’t Call Us Dead
Danez Smith · 2017
Organic eMotions
Lali A. Love · 2021
Love is a Dog From Hell
Charles Bukowski · 2003
Against Forgetting
Carolyn Forché · 1993
I’m So Fine
Khadijah Queen · 2017
Georg Trakl · 2017
A Certain World
W. H. Auden · 1970
Great Short Poems
Paul Negri · 2000
Reversible Monuments: Contemporary Mexican Poetry
edited by Mónica de la Torre & Michael Wiegers · 2001
The Art of Losing
edited by Kevin Young · 2013
Seven Tenths
James Hamilton-Paterson · 1992
The Country Between Us
Carolyn Forché · 1981
Small Dreams of a Scorpion
Spike Milligan · 1972
Some Jazz a While
Miller Williams · 1998
A Double Sorrow: Troilus and Criseyde
Lavinia Greenlaw · 2014
Blue Laws
Kevin Young · 2016
Answering Back
Carol Ann Duffy · 2007
Greek Elegiac Poetry: From the Seventh to the Fifth Centuries BC
Douglas E. Gerber & Theognis · 1999
The poems of Henry Timrod, with a sketch of the poet's life, by Paul H. Hayne
Henry Timrod · 2006
Volcano Verses
Howard Fergus · 2003
Best Friends Forever
Amy Key · 2014
Czeslaw Milosz · 2006
The Collected Works of W.B. Yeats Vol. III
William Butler Yeats · 1999
The Book of Men
Osho · 2011
Together in a Sudden Strangeness
Alice Quinn · 2020
A Tower Built Downwards
Yang Lian, translated by Brian Holton
The Collected Poems
Federico Garcia Lorca · 2002
Unlocatable Source
Judith Bowles · 2019
Book of Songs (Shi-Jing)
Anonymous & translated by James Trapp
Cassandra: A Dramatic Poem
Lesia Ukrainka & Nina Murray
Collected Work
Remco Campert
Dante in English
Eric Griffiths & Matthew Reynolds · 2005
Station Island
Seamus Heaney · 1984
Neon Vernacular
Yusef Komunyakaa · 2015
Field Work
Seamus Heaney · 1979
Sylvia Plath · 1963
At the Drive-In Volcano
Aimee Nezhukumatathil · 2007
Complete Poetical Works
James Russell Lowell · 1896
The Poems of Emily Brontë
Emily Brontë · 1941
Double Axe
Robinson Jeffers · 1948
Harlem Shadows
Claude McKay · 1922
Not Me
Eileen Myles · 1991
This Time
Gerald Stern · 1999
Elegy
Larry Levis · 1997
Postcolonial Love Poem
Natalie Diaz · 2020
Hyena!
Fran Lock · 2023
So What: New and Selected Poems, 1971-2005
Taha Muhammad Ali · 2006
Leyla and Majnun
Fuzuli (Muhammad bin Suleyman).
Mountain Songs
Gary Flint
Fury
David Morley · 2020
New and Collected Poems
U A Fanthorpe, Enarthamon Press
What Goes On
Stephen Dunn · 2010
Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Major Works
Michael O'Neill (Editor) & Zachary Leader
Dark Sparkler
Amber Tamblyn · 2015
Dark Matter
Robin Morgan · 2018
The Penguin Book of First World War Poetry
ed. George Walter · 2006
The Tribute Horse
Brandon Som · 2014
Hawk In The Rain
Ted Hughes · 1957
The Tragic Death of Eleanor Marx
Tara Bergin · 2017
Evenings and Avenues
Stuart Dischell · 1996
Classical Poems by Arab Women: A Bilingual Anthology
Abdullah al-Udhari · 1999
Crescendo
Paola Quintavalle · 2019
Children in Exile
James Fenton · 1994
I Want! I Want!
Vicki Feaver · 2019
Other Men's Flowers
Lord Wavell · 1944
Sea of Strangers
Lang Leav · 2018
The Norton Anthology of Modern and Contemporary Poetry
Several authors
The Poetry Pharmacy
William Steghart
The Shadow of Sirius
W. S. Merwin · 2008
Cold Mountain
Burton Watson · 1970
