Poignant, Powerful, & Pleasant: The Wonderful World of Poetry

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The Giving Tree
The Giving Tree 4.38 avg rating — 1,209,713 ratings
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The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Complete Poems of Emily Dickinson 4.28 avg rating — 105,232 ratings
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The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson
The Collected Poems of Emily Dickinson 4.23 avg rating — 15,572 ratings
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The Poetry of Robert Frost
The Poetry of Robert Frost 4.24 avg rating — 48,972 ratings
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The Road Not Taken and Other Poems
The Road Not Taken and Other Poems 4.27 avg rating — 39,885 ratings
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The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country
The Hill We Climb: An Inaugural Poem for the Country 4.54 avg rating — 34,659 ratings
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Call Us What We Carry
Call Us What We Carry 4.26 avg rating — 25,688 ratings
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A Child's Introduction to Poetry: Listen While You Learn about the Magic Words That Have Moved Mountains, Won Battles and Made Us Laugh and Cry
A Child's Introduction to Poetry: Listen While You Learn about the Magic Words That Have Moved Mountains, Won Battles and Made Us Laugh and Cry 4.26 avg rating — 314 ratings
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Otto the Owl Who Loved Poetry
Otto the Owl Who Loved Poetry 3.72 avg rating — 275 ratings
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Maya Angelou: the complete poetry
Maya Angelou: the complete poetry 4.34 avg rating — 494 ratings
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The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry
The Oxford Anthology of African-American Poetry 4.38 avg rating — 76 ratings
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Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems
Everything Comes Next: Collected and New Poems 4.25 avg rating — 625 ratings
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Where the Sidewalk Ends
Where the Sidewalk Ends 4.35 avg rating — 1,482,944 ratings
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A Light in the Attic
A Light in the Attic 4.36 avg rating — 470,713 ratings
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Falling Up
Falling Up 4.36 avg rating — 156,726 ratings
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The Missing Piece (The Missing Piece, #1)
The Missing Piece (The Missing Piece, #1) 4.28 avg rating — 31,125 ratings
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Poetry Galore & More With Shel Silverstein
Poetry Galore & More With Shel Silverstein 3.89 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Every Thing on It
Every Thing on It 4.37 avg rating — 14,579 ratings
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A Giraffe and a Half
A Giraffe and a Half 4.13 avg rating — 6,454 ratings
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Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook
Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook 4.11 avg rating — 9,526 ratings
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Runny Babbit Returns: Another Billy Sook
Runny Babbit Returns: Another Billy Sook 3.96 avg rating — 548 ratings
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The Best American Poetry 2020 (The Best American Poetry series)
The Best American Poetry 2020 (The Best American Poetry series) 3.55 avg rating — 292 ratings
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The Poetry of US: More than 200 Poems that Celebrate the People, Places, and Passions of the United States
The Poetry of US: More than 200 Poems that Celebrate the People, Places, and Passions of the United States 4.53 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies
Julie Andrews' Collection of Poems, Songs, and Lullabies 4.28 avg rating — 417 ratings
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National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry: More than 200 Poems With Photographs That Float, Zoom, and Bloom!
National Geographic Book of Nature Poetry: More than 200 Poems With Photographs That Float, Zoom, and Bloom! 4.22 avg rating — 288 ratings
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The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry
The Penguin Anthology of 20th-Century American Poetry
by: Rita Dove
4.17 avg rating — 559 ratings
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National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry: 200 Poems with Photographs That Squeak, Soar, and Roar!
National Geographic Book of Animal Poetry: 200 Poems with Photographs That Squeak, Soar, and Roar! 4.40 avg rating — 707 ratings
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The Waldorf Book of Poetry: Discover the Power of Imagination
The Waldorf Book of Poetry: Discover the Power of Imagination 4.42 avg rating — 60 ratings
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Poetry Speaks Who I Am: Poems of Discovery, Inspiration, Independence, and Everything Else…(Paperback Book & CD-ROM)
Poetry Speaks Who I Am: Poems of Discovery, Inspiration, Independence, and Everything Else…(Paperback Book & CD-ROM) 3.85 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Dearly: New Poems
Dearly: New Poems 3.74 avg rating — 15,387 ratings
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Poems by Walt Whitman
Poems by Walt Whitman 4.15 avg rating — 1,820 ratings
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Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore
Collected Poems and Plays of Rabindranath Tagore 4.20 avg rating — 133 ratings
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Langston Hughes (Poetry for Young People, #20)
Langston Hughes (Poetry for Young People, #20) 4.34 avg rating — 882 ratings
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The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems 4.36 avg rating — 18,158 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.31 avg rating — 8,297 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.06 avg rating — 14,664 ratings
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The Complete Poems
The Complete Poems 4.09 avg rating — 8,413 ratings
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A Hatful of Dragons: And More Than 13.8 Billion Other Funny Poems
A Hatful of Dragons: And More Than 13.8 Billion Other Funny Poems 3.88 avg rating — 201 ratings
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Robert Frost's Poems
Robert Frost's Poems 4.28 avg rating — 3,607 ratings
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Robert Frost (Poetry for Young People, #2)
Robert Frost (Poetry for Young People, #2) 4.18 avg rating — 793 ratings
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The Works of Henry David Thoreau
The Works of Henry David Thoreau 4.38 avg rating — 458 ratings
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Somebody Give This Heart a Pen
Somebody Give This Heart a Pen 3.85 avg rating — 1,569 ratings
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The Works of Edgar Allen Poe
The Works of Edgar Allen Poe 4.35 avg rating — 3,878 ratings
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A Slip of a Girl
A Slip of a Girl 3.99 avg rating — 709 ratings
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A Time to Dance
A Time to Dance 4.10 avg rating — 4,283 ratings
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Selected Poems and Tales of Edgar Allen Poe
Selected Poems and Tales of Edgar Allen Poe 4.23 avg rating — 384 ratings
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Long Way Down
Long Way Down 4.25 avg rating — 132,966 ratings
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W.H. Auden: Poems Selected by John Fuller
W.H. Auden: Poems Selected by John Fuller 3.82 avg rating — 187 ratings
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W. H. Auden Poems
W. H. Auden Poems 4.26 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.19 avg rating — 7,401 ratings
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Collected Poems
Collected Poems 4.27 avg rating — 6,083 ratings
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W.H. Auden's Book of Light Verse
W.H. Auden's Book of Light Verse 4.21 avg rating — 33 ratings
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The Waste Land and Other Poems
The Waste Land and Other Poems 4.22 avg rating — 72,693 ratings
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The Best American Poetry 2021 (The Best American Poetry series)
The Best American Poetry 2021 (The Best American Poetry series) 3.94 avg rating — 471 ratings
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The Works of William Wordsworth
The Works of William Wordsworth 4.16 avg rating — 1,996 ratings
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Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth
Selected Poetry of William Wordsworth 4.09 avg rating — 2,190 ratings
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Collected Poems, 1909-1962
Collected Poems, 1909-1962 4.29 avg rating — 21,541 ratings
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The Voice That is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century
The Voice That is Great Within Us: American Poetry of the Twentieth Century 4.31 avg rating — 315 ratings
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The Collected Works of T.S. Eliot
The Collected Works of T.S. Eliot 4.39 avg rating — 356 ratings
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Fresh-Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmers' Market
Fresh-Picked Poetry: A Day at the Farmers' Market 4.28 avg rating — 174 ratings
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The Paraclete Poetry Anthology: Selected and New Poems
The Paraclete Poetry Anthology: Selected and New Poems 4.12 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology
Postmodern American Poetry: A Norton Anthology 4.10 avg rating — 645 ratings
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Selected Poems
Selected Poems 4.34 avg rating — 6,651 ratings
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Li-Ch'Ing-Chao: Complete Poems
Li-Ch'Ing-Chao: Complete Poems 4.24 avg rating — 143 ratings
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On Poetry
On Poetry 3.95 avg rating — 419 ratings
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Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets
Poetry After 9-11: An Anthology of New York Poets 3.45 avg rating — 92 ratings
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Big Book of Poetry
Big Book of Poetry 4.22 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids
Ancestor Approved: Intertribal Stories for Kids 4.19 avg rating — 2,310 ratings
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Dandelion
Dandelion 3.20 avg rating — 2,463 ratings
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Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice
Woke: A Young Poet's Call to Justice 4.43 avg rating — 1,372 ratings
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A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart
A Place Inside of Me: A Poem to Heal the Heart 4.39 avg rating — 1,154 ratings
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Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z
Dictionary for a Better World: Poems, Quotes, and Anecdotes from A to Z 4.55 avg rating — 479 ratings
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Poetree
Poetree 4.16 avg rating — 683 ratings
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The Crying Book
The Crying Book 3.78 avg rating — 3,718 ratings
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Neon Aliens Ate My Homework
Neon Aliens Ate My Homework 2.90 avg rating — 80 ratings
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The Body Eclectic: An Anthology of Poems
The Body Eclectic: An Anthology of Poems 3.70 avg rating — 27 ratings
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The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems 4.25 avg rating — 49,683 ratings
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The Poems of Sara Teasdale
The Poems of Sara Teasdale 4.61 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Mirror of the heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale
Mirror of the heart: Poems of Sara Teasdale 4.35 avg rating — 34 ratings
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The Collected Poems
The Collected Poems 4.33 avg rating — 743 ratings
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Works of Sara Teasdale
Works of Sara Teasdale 4.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Essential Sara Teasdale Poetry Collection
The Essential Sara Teasdale Poetry Collection 4.73 avg rating — 44 ratings
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Sarojini Naidu, selected poetry and prose
Sarojini Naidu, selected poetry and prose 4.41 avg rating — 29 ratings
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Poetry of Sarojini Naidu
Poetry of Sarojini Naidu 4.35 avg rating — 23 ratings
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Lord Byron: The Major Works
Lord Byron: The Major Works 4.15 avg rating — 3,311 ratings
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The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound, Ozymandias, The Masque of Anarchy, Queen Mab, Triumph of Life and More
The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound, Ozymandias, The Masque of Anarchy, Queen Mab, Triumph of Life and More 4.28 avg rating — 163 ratings
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Eavan Boland: A Sourcebook - Poems, Prose, Interviews, Reviews, Criticism
Eavan Boland: A Sourcebook - Poems, Prose, Interviews, Reviews, Criticism 4.25 avg rating — 4 ratings
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Breaking Poems
Breaking Poems 4.38 avg rating — 203 ratings
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Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry
Inclined to Speak: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Poetry 4.35 avg rating — 55 ratings
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The Undressing: Poems
The Undressing: Poems 3.77 avg rating — 982 ratings
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From Blossoms: Selected Poems
From Blossoms: Selected Poems 4.36 avg rating — 73 ratings
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Change Sings: a Children's Anthem
Change Sings: a Children's Anthem 4.54 avg rating — 4,109 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 — 79,708 ratings
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The Love Poems of Rumi
The Love Poems of Rumi 4.20 avg rating — 5,195 ratings
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Classic Love Poems
Classic Love Poems 3.95 avg rating — 2,673 ratings
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Love Poems for Anxious People
Love Poems for Anxious People 3.56 avg rating — 1,803 ratings
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Love Poems from God: Inspirations from Twelve Sacred Voices of the East and West
Love Poems from God: Inspirations from Twelve Sacred Voices of the East and West 4.26 avg rating — 3,343 ratings
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The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan
The Ink Dark Moon: Love Poems by Ono no Komachi and Izumi Shikibu, Women of the Ancient Court of Japan 4.39 avg rating — 1,870 ratings
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The Best Loved Poems of the American People
The Best Loved Poems of the American People 4.35 avg rating — 845 ratings
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Love: Poems
Love: Poems 3.63 avg rating — 1,167 ratings