Top 100 Poetry Books

📘 Milk and Honey

The book is divided into four chapters, each chapter serves a different purpose. They deal with different pains; heal different heartaches. Milk and honey takes readers through a journey of the most bitter moments in life and finds sweetness in them, because there is sweetness everywhere If you are just willing to look.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Ὀδύσσεια

The Odyssey (/ˈɒdəsi/; Greek: Ὀδύσσεια, Odýsseia) is one of two major ancient Greek epic poems attributed to Homer. It is, in part, a sequel to the Iliad, the other work ascribed to Homer. The poem is fundamental to the modern Western canon, and is the second oldest extant work of Western literature, the Iliad being the oldest.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 the sun and her flowers

From rupi kaur, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of milk and honey, comes her long-awaited second collection of poetry. A vibrant and transcendent journey about growth and healing. Ancestry and honoring one’s roots. Expatriation and rising up to find a home within yourself.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Ἰλιάς

This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the poem as firmly rooted in ancient Greece as ever.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Pillow thoughts

Pillow Thoughts is a collection of poetry and prose about heartbreak, love, and raw emotions. it is divided into sections to read when you feel you need them most. make a cup of tea and let yourself feel.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 La Poetica

Conflated. Needs cleanup.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 She Is the Poem

She Is The Poem is a love letter to women and a celebration of sapphic joy. This collection tackles topics like love, finding yourself, coming out, self-care, and femininity.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 The Prophet

Reflections by the Lebanese-American poet, mystic, and painter on such subjects as love, marriage, joy and sorrow, crime and punishment, pain, and self-knowlege.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Every last word

Consumed by a stream of dark thoughts and worries that she can't turn off, a girl coping with Purely-Obsessional OCD learns to accept herself and take control of her life through her experiences in poetry club.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 De rerum natura

This is regarded as a seminal text of Epicurean science and philosophy. Epicurians discarded both the idea of immortality and the superstitious worship of wilful gods for a life of serene contentment in the available pleasures of nature.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II

Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world" - the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today Dickinson stands in the front rank of American poets.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Leaves of Grass

**Leaves of Grass** is a poetry collection by American poet Walt Whitman. First published in 1855, Whitman spent most of his professional life writing and rewriting *Leaves of Grass*, revising it multiple times until his death.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Warmth

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 The Raven

"The Raven" is a narrative poem by American writer Edgar Allan Poe. First published in January 1845, the poem is often noted for its musicality, stylized language, and supernatural atmosphere. It tells of a talking raven's mysterious visit to a distraught lover, tracing the man's slow descent into madness.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 Sonnets

"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada

First published in 1924, Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada remains among Pablo Neruda’s most popular work. Daringly metaphorical and sensuous, this collection juxtaposes youthful passion with the desolation of grief.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 Heal. Grow. Love.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Home Body

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Poems

The aim of this edition is to present all textual evidence of Wordsworth's work on the lyric and shorter narrative poems he composed between 1800 and 1807, the primary fruits of which appeared in 1807 under the title Poems in Two Volumes. - Preface.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 The princess saves herself in this one

"From Amanda Lovelace, a poetry collection in four parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, and you. The first three sections piece together the life of the author while the final section serves as a note to the reader. This moving book explores love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, and inspiration"--Publisher's website.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Poems and Prose

Edgar Allan Poe (1809—49) staked a large claim in that unmappable interior territory where poetry merges with dream and vision. His exquisitely musical poems provide us with a direct link to our unconscious life.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 Borderlands/La Frontera

"Rooted in Gloria Anzaldúa's experience as a Chicana, a lesbian, an activist, and a writer, the essays and poems in this volume challenge how we think about identity.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Leaf Jumpers

28 unnumbered pages : 18 cm

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 You Will Feel Whole Again

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Love Is a Dog from Hell

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Out of the Dust

"Dust piles up like snow across the prairie. . . ." A terrible accident has transformed Billie Jo's life, scarring her inside and out. Her mother is gone. Her father can't talk about it. And the one thing that might make her feel better -- playing the piano -- is impossible with her wounded hands.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

Violet Bent Backwards over the Grass is the debut book by American singer-songwriter Lana Del Rey. A poetry collection featuring over thirty original poems and photography,[2] including "13 longer poems" and several short pieces, the collection is Del Rey's first published work and was released by Simon & Schuster on September 29, 2020.[1]

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Les fleurs du mal

*Les Fleurs du mal* est un recueil de poèmes de Charles Baudelaire, reprenant la quasi-totalité de sa production en vers de 1840 jusqu'à sa mort, survenue fin août 1867. Publié le 21 juin 1857, le recueil scandalise aussitôt la société française. Son auteur subit un procès retentissant.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Ariel

"A restored edition of Sylvia Plath's collection of poems that were published after her death that restores the selection and arrangement of the poems as Plath left them at the point of her death." Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, Ariel, in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Pillow Thoughts II

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 The essential Rumi

Jelaluddin Rumi was born in the year 1207 and until the age of thirty-seven was a brilliant scholar and popular teacher. But his life changed forever when he met the powerful wandering dervish, Shams of Tabriz, of whom Rumi said, "What I had thought of before as God, I met today in a human being.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Mientras Te Olvido

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Night sky with exit wounds

Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times writes: “The poems in Mr. Vuong’s new collection, Night Sky With Exit Wounds…possess a tensile precision reminiscent of Emily Dickinson’s work, combined with a Gerard Manley Hopkins-like appreciation for the sound and rhythms of words. Mr.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Every Word You Cannot Say

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Falling Up

A collection of humorous poems and drawings.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 A light in the attic

A collection of humorous poems and drawings.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Te Quiero en Todos Los Idiomas

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 Howl, and Other Poems

"The prophetic poem that launched a generation when it was first published in 1956 is here presented in a commemorative 40th Anniversary Edition." "When the book arrived from its British printers, it was seized almost immediately by U.S.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Faerie queene

The Faerie Queene was one of the most influential poems in the English language. Dedicating his work to Elizabeth I, Spenser brilliantly united Arthurian romance and Italian renaissance epic to celebrate the glory of the Virgin Queen.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 John Donne Poetry

"This new Norton Critical Edition presents a comprehensive collection of Donne's poetry. The texts are divided into sections: "Satires," "Elegies," "Verse Letters to Several Personages," "Songs and Sonnets," and "Divine Poems.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Witness

A series of poems express the views of various people in a small Vermont town, including a young black girl and a young Jewish girl, during the early 1920s when the Ku Klux Klan is trying to infiltrate the town.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 The Rose That Grew From Concrete

A collection of brilliant and intense poems, in the handwritten and typed version, by the rapper Tupac Shakur.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Poems

From the book:Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyesSee nothing save their own unlovely woe,Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know, -But that the roar of thy Democracies,Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies,Mirror my wildest passions like the seaAnd give my rage a brother -! Liberty!For this sake only do thy dissonant criesDeli...

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Selections

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Aeneis

"A prose translation of Vergil's Aeneid with new illustrations and informational appendices"--Provided by publisher.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Struwwelpeter

Struwwelpeter is a collection of children's poetry meant to serve as instructions for life's lessons. Most of the stories tell the tale of a child's misbehavior and the grizzly end they will meet if they do not change their ways.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 When we were very young

A collection of poems reflecting the experiences of a little English boy growing up in the early part of the twentieth century.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Consecuencias de decir te quiero

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 A child's garden of verses

Rediscover the delight and innocence of childhood in these classic poems from celebrated author, Robert Louis Stevenson. From make-believe to climbing trees, bedtime stories to morning play and favourite cousins to beloved mothers. Here is a very special collection to be treasured forever.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 The Waste Land

"THE WASTE LAND" BY T.S. ELIOT, A SEMINAL WORK OF MODERNIST POETRY, EXPLORES THEMES OF BROKENNESS, LOSS, AND THE MEANINGLESSNESS OF MODERN LIFE, USING FRAGMENTED LANGUAGE, ALLUSIONS, AND A NON-LINEAR STRUCTURE TO CONVEY ITS MESSAGE.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 los latidos que nunca dije

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Rime of the ancient mariner

A mariner stops a man on his way to a wedding. The mariner then relates to the man all the events of a long sea voyage, arousing in his listener feeling of impatience, fear, fascination and bemusement.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 Poems

For poetry lovers and students of literature and literary criticism, a National Book Award-winning poet brings his prowess as a translator and critic to bear on the work of one of the major German poets of the century.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Hujan bulan Juni

Poems.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Poems for the Signs

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 The storied life of A. J. Fikry

A.J. Fikry's life is not what he expected it to be. His wife has died, his bookstore is failing, and his prized possession, a rare collection of Poe poems, has been stolen. He is isolating himself from all the people of Alice Island and from Amelia, the Knightley Press sales rep who refuses to be deterred by A.J.'s bad attitude.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 Poems

William Blake is one of England’s most fascinating writers; he was not only a groundbreaking poet, but also a painter, engraver, radical, and mystic.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Fables

Jean de La Fontaine collected fables from a wide variety of sources, both Western and Eastern, and adapted them into French free verse. They were issued under the general title of Fables in several volumes from 1668 to 1694 and are considered classics of French literature.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Rashmi Rathi

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 The Hunting of the Snark

A nonsense poem recounting the adventures of the Bellman and his crew and their challenges hunting a Snark.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 Gitanjali (song offerings)

Verse rendering in Sanskrit with English translation.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Meghadūta

ed. from manuscripts, with the commentary of Vallabhadeva, and provided with a complete Sanskrit-English vocabulary, by E. Hultzsch

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Sea of Strangers

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Palipad-hangin

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Love Her Wild

225 pages : 23 cm

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 Lullabies

Set to a musical theme, love's poetic journey in this new, original collection begins with a Duet and travels through Interlude and Finale with an Encore popular piece from the best-selling Love & Misadventure. Lang Leav's evocative poetry speaks to the soul of anyone who is on this journey.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 Locomotion

Jacqueline Woodson is the 2018-2019 National Ambassador for Young People’s Literature When Lonnie was seven years old, his parents died in a fire. Now he's eleven, and he still misses them terribly.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 Collected Poems

"Contains in sequence all the poetry written by the author from 1956 until her suicide in 1963, together with fifty selections from her pre-1956 work."

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Dear Stranger, I Know How You Feel

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Poema de mio Cid

El *Poema de mio Cid*, o *Cantar de mio Cid,* es un cantar de gesta anónimo que relata hazañas heroicas inspiradas libremente en los últimos años de la vida del caballero castellano Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar el Campeador. La versión conservada fue compuesta, según la mayoría de la crítica actual, alrededor del año 1200.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 The lady of the lake

Lady Of The Lake is a lovely, 6-piece poem by Sir Walter Scott. This poetic story is the basis for many later works by other authors, and to this day, still sets the pace for emerging and contemporary writers.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 Edda

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Gilgamesh

An epic tale of friendship, immortality, and the search for wisdom in ancient Mesopotamia.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Girl Made of Glass

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Lithoko tsa marena a Basotho

this book is based on traditional sotho praises that were made for sotho chiefs and kings by their loving subjects

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Burning in water, drowning in flame

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Poems

"Nizar Kabbani was a poet of great simplicity - direct, spontaneous, musical, using the language of everyday life. He was a ceaseless campaigner for women's rights, and his verses praise the beauty of the female body, and of love. He was an Arab nationalist, yet he criticized Arab dictators and the lack of freedom in the Arab world.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Bilbo's Last Song (At the Grey Havens)

Bilbo’s Last Song is considered by many to be Tolkien’s epilogue to his classic work The Lord of the Rings. As Bilbo Baggins takes his final voyage to the Undying Lands, he must say goodbye to Middle-earth. Poignant and lyrical, the song is both a longing to set forth on his ultimate journey and a tender farewell to friends left behind.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 The Black Unicorn

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Poems

A brief introduction to the life of Shelley, called the poet of "uncompromising spirit," and his most praised works, some extracted from the whole, others presented in full.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Libro de buen amor

275 p. ; 16 cm

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 The Epic of Gilgamesh

Miraculously preserved on clay tablets deciphered only in the last century, the cycle of poems collected around the character of Gilgamesh, the great king of Uruk, tells of his long and arduous journey to the Spring of Youth, of his encounters with monsters and gods and of his friendship with Enkidu, the wild man from the hills.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Poems

Poems dealing with the soiled aspect of the human condition and the sumptuous appeal of the tactile are presented in Spanish and English.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 An essay on man

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 The Nectar of Pain

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Her

154 pages : 21 cm

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 The wild iris

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Parzival

Il Parzival, composto in Germania agli inizi del XIII secolo, fu il primo grande romanzo di formazione (Bildungsroman) della letteratura tedesca, ed ebbe già tra i contemporanei tanto successo da oscurare le altre opere dell’autore: ne sono testimonianza i moltissimi manoscritti conservati, circa ottanta tra completi e frammentari.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 You get so alone at times that it just makes sense

Charles Bukowski is one of America's best-known contemporary writers of poetry and prose, and, many would claim, its most influential and imitated poet. He was born in Andernach, Germany, and raised in Los Angeles, where he lived for fifty years.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Poems

Introduces the life of author Samuel Taylor Coleridge and presents a sample of his poetry, including complete works and excerpts, with a brief, explanatory introduction to each.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Theogony

Hesiod's straightforward account of family conflict among the gods is the best and earliest evidence of what the ancient Greeks believed about the beginning of the world. Includes Hesiod's "Works and Days", lines 1-201, and material from the Library of Apollodorus.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 The colossus & other poems

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Love Looks Pretty on You

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Comus

From what I have found it is about a woman who is kidnapped by a Greek god. Where she is tempted numerous times by him but decides to refrain from temptation. Her brothers who she was traveling with meet another being who tells them how to help their sister, but the question is will they be able to save her before she gives in.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 Hate That Cat

Jack is back at school and thankfully Miss Stretchberry is his teacher again. Jack likes her! But he disagrees with her about one thing ... CATS. Jack hates cats. Or at least he does until he gets to know some kittens and reads some poetry about cats.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 Pillow Thoughts III

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Dream Work

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 A doll for the child prostitute

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 the witch doesn't burn in this one

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry