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William Shakespeare
Sonnet 12: When I do count the clock that tells the time by William Shakespeare
(4.5 by 2 user)
407
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Navakanta Barua
Palestine by Navakanta Barua
(5.0 by 3 user)
324
2
Edgar Allan Poe
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
(5.0 by 2 user)
191
2
Charles Baudelaire
The Fountain by Charles Baudelaire
(5.0 by 1 user)
183
2
William Butler Yeats
The Song of Wandering Aengus by William Butler Yeats
(5.0 by 1 user)
173
2
Percy Bysshe Shelley
Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley
(5.0 by 1 user)
82
2
Sappho
Charaxos and Larichos by Sappho
(4.3 by 3 user)
130
1
Letitia Elizabeth Landon
Revenge by Letitia Elizabeth Landon
(4.0 by 1 user)
194
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Maya Angelou
Still I Rise by Maya Angelou
(5.0 by 1 user)
191
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Sarah Helen Whitman
To - by Sarah Helen Whitman
(5.0 by 1 user)
178
1
Alice Friman
The Peach by Alice Friman
(3.3 by 6 user)
59
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Abraham Lincoln
To Rosa by Abraham Lincoln
(5.0 by 1 user)
101
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Emily Dickinson
Because I could not stop for Death by Emily Dickinson
(5.0 by 1 user)
92
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
From Maud: O that 'twere possible by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
(5.0 by 1 user)
87
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Matthew Arnold
Apollo Musagetes by Matthew Arnold
(5.0 by 1 user)
78
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William Cowper
Hatred and Vengeance, My Eternal Portion by William Cowper
(5.0 by 1 user)
76
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Jack Agüeros
Sonnet: The History of Puerto Rico by Jack Agüeros
(5.0 by 1 user)
198
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Sonia Sanchez
For Tupac Amaru Shakur by Sonia Sanchez
(5.0 by 2 user)
143
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Russell Edson
Metals Metals by Russell Edson
(5.0 by 1 user)
190
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Emily Dickinson
I have never seen "Volcanoes" — (175) by Emily Dickinson
(4.5 by 2 user)
139
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Langston Hughes
Freedom by Langston Hughes
(4.0 by 1 user)
184
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Andrew Marvell
The Garden by Andrew Marvell
(4.0 by 1 user)
184
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Margaret Danner
Through the Varied Patterned Lace by Margaret Danner
(4.7 by 3 user)
71
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Adrienne Rich
Yom Kippur 1984 by Adrienne Rich
(2.7 by 3 user)
53
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Osip Mandelstam
Black Earth by Osip Mandelstam
(3.3 by 3 user)
49
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W. H. Auden
Twelve Songs: IX by W. H. Auden
(4.0 by 1 user)
144
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Meleager
Lost Desire by Meleager
(4.5 by 2 user)
93
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Navakanta Barua
The Belt Of The Spinning Wheel by Navakanta Barua
(4.0 by 1 user)
137
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Sappho
One Girl by Sappho
(4.0 by 1 user)
135
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William Shakespeare
Venus and Adonis by William Shakespeare
(4.5 by 2 user)
82
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William Shakespeare
Sonnet 134: So now I have confessed that he is thine by William Shakespeare
(4.5 by 2 user)
80
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Diane Wakoski
The Photos by Diane Wakoski
(5.0 by 1 user)
128
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Richard Rolle
Ego Dormio: All perishes and passes by Richard Rolle
(5.0 by 1 user)
122
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W. H. Auden
Musée des Beaux Arts by W. H. Auden
(5.0 by 2 user)
71
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John Milton
Sonnet 10: Lawrence, of virtuous father virtuous son by John Milton
169
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Charlotte Mew
The Fête by Charlotte Mew
(4.5 by 2 user)
65
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Donald Justice
Pantoum of the Great Depression by Donald Justice
(5.0 by 2 user)
64
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William Shakespeare
Speech: Bottom's Dream by William Shakespeare
(5.0 by 1 user)
112
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Mark Strand
The Prediction by Mark Strand
(2.0 by 2 user)
61
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Elinor Wylie
Cold Blooded Creatures by Elinor Wylie
(4.5 by 2 user)
59
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Mechthild of Magdeburg
God's Absence by Mechthild of Magdeburg
(5.0 by 2 user)
59
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José Montoya
Th’ Dog Dreamers by José Montoya
(4.5 by 2 user)
59
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Adonis
The Solitary Land by Adonis
(5.0 by 1 user)
104
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Dorothea Grossman
I have to tell you by Dorothea Grossman
(3.0 by 2 user)
50
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John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book  9 (1674 version) by John Milton
(4.0 by 1 user)
100
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George Moses Horton
Lincoln Is Dead by George Moses Horton
(4.0 by 2 user)
49
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Edwin Markham
Preparedness by Edwin Markham
149
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Charles Reznikoff
Negroes by Charles Reznikoff
(3.5 by 2 user)
48
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Kamau Brathwaite
Bread by Kamau Brathwaite
(5.0 by 1 user)
97
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Tomas Tranströmer
Streets in Shanghai by Tomas Tranströmer
(5.0 by 1 user)
94
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Triumph of Time by Algernon Charles Swinburne
(5.0 by 1 user)
94
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Lorine Niedecker
Darwin by Lorine Niedecker
143
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W. D. Snodgrass
Heart’s Needle by W. D. Snodgrass
(5.0 by 1 user)
92
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Gwendolyn Brooks
The Life of Lincoln West by Gwendolyn Brooks
(5.0 by 1 user)
87
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John Donne
Satire III by John Donne
(4.0 by 1 user)
87
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Robert Browning
Andrea del Sarto by Robert Browning
(5.0 by 1 user)
85
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Peter Davison
Peaches by Peter Davison
(5.0 by 1 user)
84
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Petrarch
“If no love is, O God, what fele I so?” by Petrarch
(4.0 by 1 user)
83
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Thomas Hood
A Friendly Address by Thomas Hood
(5.0 by 1 user)
81
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Christina Rossetti
In an Artist's Studio by Christina Rossetti
(5.0 by 1 user)
79
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Wilfred Owen
A Terre by Wilfred Owen
(5.0 by 1 user)
79
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Mary Mapes Dodge
The Mayor of Scuttleton by Mary Mapes Dodge
(4.0 by 1 user)
79
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Robert Burns
"How can I keep my maidenhead" by Robert Burns
(5.0 by 1 user)
79
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James Schuyler
Hymn to Life by James Schuyler
(4.0 by 1 user)
79
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Richard Howard
Wildflowers by Richard Howard
(4.0 by 1 user)
77
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Carl Rakosi
Shore Line by Carl Rakosi
125
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Anne Bradstreet
Contemplations by Anne Bradstreet
(4.0 by 1 user)
75
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Robert Browning
A Death in the Desert by Robert Browning
(4.0 by 1 user)
74
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Robert Frost
The Death of the Hired Man by Robert Frost
(4.0 by 1 user)
74
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William Shakespeare
Speech: “Is this a dagger which I see before me” by William Shakespeare
(5.0 by 1 user)
73
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Derek Walcott
Map of the New World by Derek Walcott
(5.0 by 1 user)
72
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Langston Hughes
Flatted Fifths   by Langston Hughes
(5.0 by 1 user)
71
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John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book  3 (1674 version) by John Milton
(4.0 by 1 user)
71
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John Donne
An Anatomy of the World by John Donne
(5.0 by 1 user)
71
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Gertrude Stein
Hotel François 1er by Gertrude Stein
(5.0 by 1 user)
70
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William Wordsworth
Ode: Intimations of Immortality from Recollections of Early Childhood by William Wordsworth
(5.0 by 1 user)
70
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E. E. Cummings
All in green went my love riding by E. E. Cummings
(5.0 by 1 user)
70
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Sonia Sanchez
Father`s voice by Sonia Sanchez
(4.0 by 1 user)
69
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E. E. Cummings
Somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond by E. E. Cummings
(5.0 by 1 user)
69
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William Shakespeare
Sonnet 125: Were’t aught to me I bore the canopy by William Shakespeare
(5.0 by 1 user)
69
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Pat Schneider
From where I stand by Pat Schneider
(5.0 by 1 user)
68
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James Baldwin
Staggerlee wonders by James Baldwin
(1.0 by 1 user)
68
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Henry Timrod
Two Portraits by Henry Timrod
118
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Robert Browning
Cleon by Robert Browning
(5.0 by 1 user)
67
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Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
To the Young Wife by Charlotte Anna Perkins Gilman
117
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Donald Hall
The Baseball Players by Donald Hall
(2.0 by 1 user)
67
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Robert Winner
Sickroom by Robert Winner
(5.0 by 1 user)
67
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Thomas Love Peacock
The War-song of Dinas Vawr by Thomas Love Peacock
(5.0 by 1 user)
67
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T. S. Eliot
The Waste Land by T. S. Eliot
(3.0 by 1 user)
67
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Stephen Spender
Auden's Funeral by Stephen Spender
(4.0 by 1 user)
66
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Queen Lydia Kamakaeha Lili’uokalani
Sanoe by Queen Lydia Kamakaeha Lili’uokalani
(4.0 by 1 user)
66
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Odysseus Elytis
The Presence by Odysseus Elytis
(5.0 by 1 user)
66
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John Donne
A Valediction of the Book by John Donne
(5.0 by 1 user)
66
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Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln by Abraham Lincoln
(5.0 by 1 user)
66
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Samuel Taylor Coleridge
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner (text of 1834) by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
(4.0 by 1 user)
66
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Faustine by Algernon Charles Swinburne
(5.0 by 1 user)
66
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
A Ballad of Death by Algernon Charles Swinburne
(5.0 by 1 user)
65
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Robert Browning
The Laboratory by Robert Browning
(5.0 by 1 user)
64
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John Milton
Paradise Lost: Book  8 (1674 version) by John Milton
(5.0 by 1 user)
63
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Nothing New by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
113
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