Goodreads Top 100 Poems of All Time

1.
Shakespeare's Sonnets
Shakespeare's Sonnets 4.25 avg rating — 110,514 ratings
2.
Complete Poems
Complete Poems 4.27 avg rating — 16,615 ratings
3.
Leaves of Grass
Leaves of Grass 4.11 avg rating — 114,641 ratings
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Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson 4.28 avg rating — 105,232 ratings
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The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems 4.27 avg rating — 39,884 ratings
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Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night 4.40 avg rating — 1,979 ratings
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The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems 4.23 avg rating — 11,665 ratings
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The Canterbury Tales
The Canterbury Tales 3.52 avg rating — 234,626 ratings
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The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose
The Annotated Waste Land with Eliot's Contemporary Prose 4.11 avg rating — 57,821 ratings
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Songs of Innocence and of Experience
Songs of Innocence and of Experience 4.09 avg rating — 50,997 ratings
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Works of William Butler Yeats (60+ works). Inclds. The Celtic Twilight, Four Years, The Hour Glass, Rosa Alchemica, Stories of Red Hanrahan, Ego Dominus ... Byzantium and MORE (Mobi Collected Works)
Works of William Butler Yeats (60+ works). Inclds. The Celtic Twilight, Four Years, The Hour Glass, Rosa Alchemica, Stories of Red Hanrahan, Ego Dominus ... Byzantium and MORE (Mobi Collected Works) 4.22 avg rating — 271 ratings
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The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso
The Divine Comedy: Inferno - Purgatorio - Paradiso 4.08 avg rating — 167,102 ratings
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Beowulf
Beowulf
by: Unknown
3.50 avg rating — 338,025 ratings
14.
Just Love Her
Just Love Her
by: Raz Mihal
4.30 avg rating — 5,890 ratings
15.
The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems 4.25 avg rating — 24,226 ratings
16.
The Iliad / The Odyssey
The Iliad / The Odyssey
by: Homer
4.07 avg rating — 82,151 ratings
17.
A Poetry Collection
A Poetry Collection 4.31 avg rating — 180 ratings
18.
The Sun and Her Flowers
The Sun and Her Flowers
by: Rupi Kaur
4.08 avg rating — 364,876 ratings
19.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner 3.97 avg rating — 61,818 ratings
20.
The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems 4.25 avg rating — 49,686 ratings
21.
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock and Other Poems 4.32 avg rating — 22,467 ratings
22.
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening
Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening 4.40 avg rating — 11,064 ratings
23.
My Last Duchess - Selected Poetry of Robert Browning
My Last Duchess - Selected Poetry of Robert Browning 4.06 avg rating — 5,537 ratings
24.
The Works of John Donne
The Works of John Donne 4.28 avg rating — 529 ratings
25.
Wrapped Up In Brown Paper And Other Poems
Wrapped Up In Brown Paper And Other Poems 4.29 avg rating — 38 ratings
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Wild Hope: Healing Words to Find Light on Dark Days
Wild Hope: Healing Words to Find Light on Dark Days 4.31 avg rating — 1,285 ratings
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Emerson, the Stoics, and Me: Timeless Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life
Emerson, the Stoics, and Me: Timeless Wisdom for Living an Authentic Life 3.93 avg rating — 527 ratings
28.
Les Fleurs du Mal
Les Fleurs du Mal 4.20 avg rating — 77,702 ratings
29.
Paradise Lost
Paradise Lost 3.85 avg rating — 177,948 ratings
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The Lady of Shalott
The Lady of Shalott 4.19 avg rating — 19,683 ratings
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Goblin Market: A Tale of Two Sisters
Goblin Market: A Tale of Two Sisters 4.08 avg rating — 16,039 ratings
32.
The Major Works: Including Endymion, the Odes and Selected Letters
The Major Works: Including Endymion, the Odes and Selected Letters 4.39 avg rating — 674 ratings
33.
The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope
The Poetry Pharmacy Returns: More Prescriptions for Courage, Healing and Hope 4.38 avg rating — 993 ratings
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Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series
Chasers of the Light: Poems from the Typewriter Series 4.18 avg rating — 10,881 ratings
35.
The Strength In Our Scars
The Strength In Our Scars 4.05 avg rating — 13,697 ratings
36.
Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers
Self Love Poetry: For Thinkers & Feelers 4.12 avg rating — 3,833 ratings
37.
Walden or, Life in the Woods
Walden or, Life in the Woods 3.78 avg rating — 200,845 ratings
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Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence
Howl: Original Draft Facsimile, Transcript & Variant Versions, Fully Annotated by Author, with Contemporaneous Correspondence 4.07 avg rating — 6,189 ratings
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The Complete Sonnets and Poems
The Complete Sonnets and Poems 4.40 avg rating — 6,865 ratings
40.
Illuminations
Illuminations 4.32 avg rating — 13,673 ratings
41.
She Walks in Beauty
She Walks in Beauty 4.08 avg rating — 697 ratings
42.
The Odyssey
The Odyssey
by: Homer
3.82 avg rating — 1,156,629 ratings
43.
Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1)
Pillow Thoughts (Pillow Thoughts, #1) 3.81 avg rating — 53,918 ratings
44.
Self-Reliance and Other Essays
Self-Reliance and Other Essays 4.12 avg rating — 20,165 ratings
45.
An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard
An Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard 4.02 avg rating — 1,274 ratings
46.
Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus
Duino Elegies and The Sonnets to Orpheus 4.44 avg rating — 2,776 ratings
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The Major Works
The Major Works 4.04 avg rating — 7,038 ratings
48.
The Complete Poems of Sappho
The Complete Poems of Sappho
by: Sappho
4.17 avg rating — 10,971 ratings
49.
Robert Browning - Poems
Robert Browning - Poems 4.02 avg rating — 5,259 ratings
50.
Tennyson's Poetry
Tennyson's Poetry 4.07 avg rating — 8,007 ratings
51.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: Poems and Other Writings 4.11 avg rating — 617 ratings
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The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems 4.36 avg rating — 18,158 ratings
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Federico García Lorca: Selected Poems
Federico García Lorca: Selected Poems 4.32 avg rating — 9,136 ratings
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Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats 4.07 avg rating — 29,324 ratings
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Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.24 avg rating — 8,570 ratings
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Ode On A Grecian Urn, The Eve Of St. Agnes, And Other Poems (1901)
Ode On A Grecian Urn, The Eve Of St. Agnes, And Other Poems (1901) 4.37 avg rating — 35 ratings
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
Sonnets from the Portuguese 4.11 avg rating — 12,702 ratings
58.
Idylls of the King
Idylls of the King 3.97 avg rating — 10,331 ratings
59.
Invictus
Invictus 4.50 avg rating — 750 ratings
60.
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
by: Unknown
3.76 avg rating — 75,121 ratings
61.
The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems 4.26 avg rating — 4,503 ratings
62.
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins 4.28 avg rating — 1,837 ratings
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A Red, Red Rose: The Love Poems of Robert Burns in Original Scots and Modern English
A Red, Red Rose: The Love Poems of Robert Burns in Original Scots and Modern English really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 58 ratings
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The Second Coming
The Second Coming 4.09 avg rating — 690 ratings
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Tennyson: Including Lotos Eaters, Ulysses, Ode on the Death, Maud, The Coming and the Passing of Arthur
Tennyson: Including Lotos Eaters, Ulysses, Ode on the Death, Maud, The Coming and the Passing of Arthur 4.20 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Works of William Wordsworth
The Works of William Wordsworth 4.16 avg rating — 1,996 ratings
67.
Dover Beach and Other Poems
Dover Beach and Other Poems 3.89 avg rating — 1,582 ratings
68.
Easter 1916 and Other Poems
Easter 1916 and Other Poems 4.02 avg rating — 386 ratings
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Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair 4.20 avg rating — 79,713 ratings
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Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems
Fernando Pessoa and Co.: Selected Poems 4.29 avg rating — 1,439 ratings
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The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems
The Emperor of Ice-Cream and Other Poems 3.96 avg rating — 261 ratings
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The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems 4.09 avg rating — 8,413 ratings
73.
Collected Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay
Collected Works of Edna St. Vincent Millay 4.54 avg rating — 253 ratings
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The Cantos
The Cantos 3.92 avg rating — 5,373 ratings
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Chicago Poems
Chicago Poems 4.01 avg rating — 2,623 ratings
74.
The Faerie Queene
The Faerie Queene 3.58 avg rating — 17,146 ratings
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Fern Hill
Fern Hill 4.03 avg rating — 142 ratings
78.
Complete Poems
Complete Poems 4.02 avg rating — 3,151 ratings
79.
Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.09 avg rating — 1,368 ratings
80.
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat 4.33 avg rating — 9,533 ratings
81.
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie
Just Give Me a Cool Drink of Water 'fore I Diiie 4.15 avg rating — 1,205 ratings
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To a Skylark
To a Skylark 3.87 avg rating — 213 ratings
83.
Don Juan
Don Juan 3.78 avg rating — 8,807 ratings
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The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám 4.17 avg rating — 22,744 ratings
85.
The Darkling Thrush and other Poems by Thomas Hardy
The Darkling Thrush and other Poems by Thomas Hardy 4.04 avg rating — 127 ratings
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Irish Fairy and Folk Tales
Irish Fairy and Folk Tales 4.04 avg rating — 5,830 ratings
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Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood
Ode: Intimations Of Immortality From Recollections Of Early Childhood 4.21 avg rating — 635 ratings
88.
As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks & Other Light Verse
As I Walked Out One Evening: Songs, Ballads, Lullabies, Limericks & Other Light Verse 4.17 avg rating — 369 ratings
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The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Excursions, Translations, and Poems
The Writings of Henry David Thoreau: Excursions, Translations, and Poems 4.20 avg rating — 15 ratings
90.
Metamorphoses
Metamorphoses
by: Ovid
4.10 avg rating — 76,399 ratings
91.
Caressed by an Elfin Breeze: The Poems of Zardoa Silverstar
Caressed by an Elfin Breeze: The Poems of Zardoa Silverstar 4.73 avg rating — 15 ratings
91.
One Heart - Many Breaks
One Heart - Many Breaks 4.84 avg rating — 140 ratings
93.
Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage ... New Edition.
Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage ... New Edition. 3.66 avg rating — 2,256 ratings
94.
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame
Burning in Water, Drowning in Flame 4.04 avg rating — 9,344 ratings
95.
Pied Beauty: A Selection of Poems
Pied Beauty: A Selection of Poems 3.68 avg rating — 44 ratings
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The Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne
The Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne 3.96 avg rating — 199 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.34 avg rating — 6,651 ratings
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Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.21 avg rating — 8,947 ratings
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The Waste Land and Other Poems
The Waste Land and Other Poems 4.22 avg rating — 72,694 ratings
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Troilus and Criseyde
Troilus and Criseyde 3.75 avg rating — 7,062 ratings
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