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Milk and honey (Paperback)
by (shelved 24613 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.95 — 838,582 ratings — published 2014
Where the Sidewalk Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14454 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,539,428 ratings — published 1974
The Sun and Her Flowers (Paperback)
by (shelved 14315 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.07 — 391,434 ratings — published 2018
Leaves of Grass (Paperback)
by (shelved 10632 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.11 — 119,422 ratings — published 1855
The Princess Saves Herself in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #1)
by (shelved 10524 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.82 — 163,535 ratings — published 2016
Ariel (Paperback)
by (shelved 9247 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.18 — 92,508 ratings — published 1965
Night Sky with Exit Wounds (Paperback)
by (shelved 8507 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.16 — 52,636 ratings — published 2016
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson (Paperback)
by (shelved 7772 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.29 — 107,713 ratings — published 1890
The Odyssey (Paperback)
by (shelved 7705 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,281,197 ratings — published -800
Howl and Other Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7183 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.13 — 121,069 ratings — published 1956
A Light in the Attic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7105 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.37 — 483,114 ratings — published 1981
Crush (Paperback)
by (shelved 6993 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.34 — 44,201 ratings — published 2005
Beowulf (Paperback)
by (shelved 6832 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.50 — 356,239 ratings — published 950
Paradise Lost (Paperback)
by (shelved 6526 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.86 — 188,091 ratings — published 1667
The Iliad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6257 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.94 — 535,814 ratings — published -750
Home Body (Paperback)
by (shelved 6235 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.05 — 164,125 ratings — published 2020
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair (Paperback)
by (shelved 6225 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.19 — 84,505 ratings — published 1924
The Poet X (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6068 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.36 — 145,753 ratings — published 2018
The Waste Land and Other Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 6005 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.21 — 75,325 ratings — published 1922
Devotions: The Selected Poems of Mary Oliver (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5840 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.55 — 34,436 ratings — published 2017
Shakespeare's Sonnets (Paperback)
by (shelved 5788 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 114,559 ratings — published 1609
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 5774 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.19 — 83,573 ratings — published 1857
The Witch Doesn't Burn in This One (Women Are Some Kind of Magic, #2)
by (shelved 5366 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.72 — 50,722 ratings — published 2018
The Prophet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5225 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.23 — 338,706 ratings — published 1923
A Thousand Mornings: Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5109 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.20 — 33,638 ratings — published 2012
The Complete Stories and Poems (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5095 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.40 — 300,850 ratings — published 1849
If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (Paperback)
by (shelved 5057 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.42 — 22,727 ratings — published -550
Time Is a Mother (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5044 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.91 — 39,415 ratings — published 2022
Citizen: An American Lyric (Paperback)
by (shelved 5006 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 53,118 ratings — published 2014
Songs of Innocence and of Experience (Paperback)
by (shelved 4774 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.09 — 53,346 ratings — published 1794
Inferno (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4705 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.03 — 212,883 ratings — published 1321
Letters to a Young Poet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4648 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.27 — 133,429 ratings — published 1929
Autobiography of Red: A Novel in Verse (Paperback)
by (shelved 4547 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 38,683 ratings — published 1998
The Collected Poems (Library Binding)
by (shelved 4481 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 51,928 ratings — published 1981
The Waste Land (Paperback)
by (shelved 4457 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.11 — 60,962 ratings — published 1922
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 4366 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.29 — 175,801 ratings — published 1845
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4148 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.09 — 179,396 ratings — published 1304
Bluets (Paperback)
by (shelved 4093 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.03 — 61,315 ratings — published 2009
The Essential Rumi (Paperback)
by (shelved 4080 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.39 — 51,749 ratings — published 1273
Bright Dead Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 4056 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.19 — 15,631 ratings — published 2015
Teaching My Mother How to Give Birth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3989 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 21,765 ratings — published 2011
Salt (Paperback)
by (shelved 3958 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.22 — 25,509 ratings — published 2013
Falling Up (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3955 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.36 — 157,994 ratings — published 1996
Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)
by (shelved 3877 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.80 — 57,308 ratings — published 2017
Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 3800 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.99 — 64,351 ratings — published 2020
The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats (Paperback)
by (shelved 3780 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.23 — 40,431 ratings — published 1933
Love & Misadventure (Paperback)
by (shelved 3675 times as poetry)
avg rating 3.93 — 59,205 ratings — published 2013
The Wild Iris (Paperback)
by (shelved 3591 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.17 — 16,596 ratings — published 1992
The Poetry of Robert Frost (Paperback)
by (shelved 3572 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.24 — 49,637 ratings — published 1969
Call Us What We Carry (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3527 times as poetry)
avg rating 4.25 — 27,222 ratings — published 2021
“I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair.
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.
I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.
I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,
and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”
―
Silent and starving, I prowl through the streets.
Bread does not nourish me, dawn disrupts me, all day
I hunt for the liquid measure of your steps.
I hunger for your sleek laugh,
your hands the color of a savage harvest,
hunger for the pale stones of your fingernails,
I want to eat your skin like a whole almond.
I want to eat the sunbeam flaring in your lovely body,
the sovereign nose of your arrogant face,
I want to eat the fleeting shade of your lashes,
and I pace around hungry, sniffing the twilight,
hunting for you, for your hot heart,
Like a puma in the barrens of Quitratue.”
―
“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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