Top 100 Poetry Books

📘 Milk and Honey

Milk and Honey is a lyrical poetry collection by Rupi Kaur that explores healing, resilience, and the bittersweet moments of life through four thematic sections.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Ὀδύσσεια

The Odyssey, an ancient Greek epic poem attributed to Homer, follows Odysseus on his long journey home after the Trojan War and stands as the second oldest surviving work of Western literature.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 the sun and her flowers

Rupi Kaur’s second poetry collection, *The Sun and Her Flowers*, explores themes of growth, healing, and self‑discovery through raw, personal verses about love, loss, and renewal.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Ἰλιάς

A modern edition of Lattimore’s translation of Homer’s Iliad, enriched with a contextual introduction, line‑by‑line notes, a glossary, and maps to illuminate ancient Greek warfare, society, and mythology.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Inferno

In *Inferno*, Dante Alighieri, lost and bewildered, is guided through the nine circles of Hell by the Roman poet Virgil, beginning his quest to return to divine light.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 I Don't Love You Anymore

A heartfelt collection of love poems for those who felt deeply, who have loved unreciprocatedly, or who struggle to let go. Rithvik Singh offers gentle comfort and a poetic refuge for the hardest days.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 Pillow thoughts

Pillow Thoughts is a heartfelt collection of poetry and prose that explores heartbreak, love, and raw emotion, arranged into sections to guide readers when they need a comforting conversation with themselves.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 La Poetica

Conflated. Needs cleanup.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 The Strength in Our Scars

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 She Is the Poem

A lyrical celebration of women and sapphic love, this collection explores themes of romance, self-discovery, coming out, self‑care, and femininity.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 The Prophet

Reflections by Lebanese‑American poet Kahlil Gibran on love, marriage, joy, sorrow, crime, punishment, pain, and self‑knowledge.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Every last word

A heart‑warming coming‑of‑age story about a high‑school girl with obsessive‑compulsive disorder who finds self‑acceptance and a voice in her school's poetry club.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Where the Sidewalk Ends

Shel Silverstein’s whimsical collection of poems and drawings invites you into a world where imagination rules—where a boy becomes a TV set, a girl devours a whale, and a unicorn stumbles through the streets.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 De rerum natura

In Lucretius’s epic poem, *De rerum natura*, Epicureanism is presented as a rational, atomistic worldview that rejects superstition and espouses a tranquil life of natural pleasures.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II

A collection of more than four hundred poems by Emily Dickinson, published posthumously between 1886 and 1900, exploring themes of life, death, love, nature, and the inner landscape of the soul.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Ramayana, a Holy Bible of India

An English translation of Valmiki’s epic Ramayana.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 The Art of Being Alone

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass is Walt Whitman’s celebrated poetry collection, first issued in 1855 and expanded over four decades into a work of more than 400 poems, reflecting his lifelong revisions and evolving vision of American life.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Warmth

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 The Raven

Edgar Allan Poe's 1845 narrative poem "The Raven" is famed for its musical cadence, stylized diction, and supernatural mood as a raven visits a grieving lover, deepening his melancholy.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 You'll Come Back to Yourself

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Sonnets

A collection of William Shakespeare’s sonnets, offering a scholarly edition suitable for study and performance.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada

Pablo Neruda’s celebrated 1924 collection of 20 love poems and a desolate song, blending sensuality, nature, and expressionist influence with the poet’s intimate emotions.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 All That You Deserve

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Heal. Grow. Love.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 I Have to Tell You Something

Zara Bas’s debut collection of poetic‑style prose offers gentle, honest reflections on love, loss, grief, loneliness and self‑worth, inviting readers to find courage, healing, and self‑love.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Home Body

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Textos cruéis demais para serem lidos rapidamente

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Poems

A facsimile edition of William Wordsworth's early lyric and narrative poems from 1800‑1807, the works that first appeared in 1807 as Poems in Two Volumes.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 The princess saves herself in this one

Four sections of Amanda Lovelace’s poetry—The Princess, The Damsel, The Queen, and You—trace a personal journey of love, loss, healing, and empowerment, culminating in a direct note to the reader.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Poems and Prose

Edgar Allan Poe’s collection of poems and prose, showcasing his haunting imagery, musicality, and explorations of death, love, and the supernatural.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 Borderlands/La Frontera

A collection of essays and bilingual poetry by Gloria Anzaldúa that explores Chicana, lesbian, and border identities, redefining the border as a complex psychic, social, and cultural terrain.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Leaf Jumpers

28 unnumbered pages : 18 cm

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Everything You'll Ever Need : (You Can Find Within Yourself)

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 You Will Feel Whole Again

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Love Is a Dog from Hell

A compilation of Charles Bukowski’s hard‑bitter poems, drawn from his long career as a leading voice in American poetry.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Out of the Dust

In the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, a young girl named Billie Jo faces a life‑altering accident and the relentless storms that threaten her Oklahoma farm, finding resilience through poetry and the music she can no longer play.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

Lana Del Rey's debut poetry collection, "Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass," features more than thirty original poems, including thirteen longer pieces, paired with photography, and was issued by Simon & Schuster on September 29, 2020.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Lo Que Nunca Quise Escribir

Un íntimo poemario de 108 versos que acompaña a la juventud de Marianela mientras despide la adolescencia y contempla la nostalgia de un hogar con dos estaciones, invitando al lector a cuidar su propio corazón.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Les fleurs du mal

*Les fleurs du mal* is Charles Baudelaire’s seminal collection of poems, first published in 1857 and later expanded through 1868. The work, initially censored for its moral content, has become a cornerstone of modern French poetry.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Ariel

A facsimile edition of Sylvia Plath’s posthumous collection *Ariel*, presenting the poems in the exact order and selection she left at her death, with manuscript pages and working drafts of the title poem.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Poems by John Keats

A curated collection of twenty‑five poems by the English Romantic poet John Keats (1795‑1821).

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Pillow Thoughts II

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 The essential Rumi

A collection of the most celebrated poems by Jalāl al‑Dīn Rūmī, translated by Coleman Barks, offering a vibrant and accessible introduction to his Persian Sufi verse.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Mientras Te Olvido

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Night sky with exit wounds

Ocean Vuong’s collection Night Sky With Exit Wounds blends precise, evocative language with lyrical sound, capturing intimate moments and the fleeting nature of life in a striking poetic voice.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Beowulf

Seamus Heaney’s translation of the Old English epic Beowulf follows the hero’s battles with the monster Grendel, his mother, and a dragon, exploring themes of courage, fate, and the enduring legacy of heroic deeds.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 The Lavender Haze

June Bates returns with The Lavender Haze, a fresh, lyrical collection exploring sapphic love through evocative poems.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 Every Word You Cannot Say

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Thank You for Leaving

A collection of heartfelt poems for those who feel deeply, urging compassion, resilience, and the courage to let go.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 Revolting rhymes

A playful collection of six fairy‑tale poems, each offering a humorous retelling with a surprise ending that subverts the classic happily‑ever‑after.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative 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

📘 Come Home to Yourself

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Te Quiero en Todos Los Idiomas

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 Howl, and Other Poems

A 40th Anniversary Edition of Allen Ginsberg’s groundbreaking poem 'Howl,' featuring the historic judicial defense that established it as a landmark of American Beat poetry.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Faerie queene

Edmund Spenser’s epic poem, the Faerie Queene, is a moral allegory that blends Arthurian romance and Italian renaissance epic, celebrating Queen Elizabeth I through knights’ quests for virtue.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 John Donne Poetry

A comprehensive Norton Critical Edition of John Donne’s poetry, with meticulously edited texts, rich annotations, and extensive critical essays exploring his metaphysical style, love poetry, and divine themes.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Witness

In the early 1920s, a Vermont town faces the threat of the Ku Klux Klan. A young black girl and a young Jewish girl, among others, voice their perspectives through a series of poems.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 The Rose That Grew From Concrete

A collection of powerful poems written by rapper Tupac Shakur, presented in both handwritten and typed forms.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 This Was Meant to Find You (When You Needed It Most)

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Halloween Howls

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Poems

Poems is a collection of Oscar Wilde’s lyrical and socially conscious verse, showcasing his sharp wit, rich imagery, and Pre‑Raphaelite influence within classic 19th‑century poetry.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Selections

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Crush

Richard Siken’s *Crush* is a collection of fiercely intimate poems that won the 2004 Yale Younger Poets prize and the Lambda Literary Award for LGBTQ poetry.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Aeneis

A prose English translation of Virgil’s Latin epic The Aeneid, featuring fresh illustrations and informational appendices.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Struwwelpeter

Struwwelpeter is a classic collection of German children's poems that use rhyme and vivid illustrations to warn children about the consequences of bad behavior, offering moral lessons in a vivid, cautionary style.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 When we were very young

A collection of poems that captures the experiences of a young English boy coming of age in the early twentieth‑century, mixing gentle observation with whimsical humor.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Citizen

A lyrical, multimodal exploration of everyday racism, blending poetry, prose, and visual elements to reveal how ordinary slights and systemic injustices shape what it means to be a citizen in America.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Consecuencias de decir te quiero

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 A child's garden of verses

Robert Louis Stevenson’s collection of playful verses, celebrating the joys of childhood with whimsical imagery and gentle reminiscence.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 The Waste Land

T. S. Eliot’s landmark 1922 poem, The Waste Land, blends fragmented free‑verse passages and layered allusions to portray the desolation and spiritual uncertainty of post‑World I society.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 los latidos que nunca dije

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Rime of the ancient mariner

In this 1798 poem, a sailor encounters an earnest traveler on his way to a wedding and recounts a haunting sea expedition, weaving themes of fate, guilt, and redemption in vivid, lyrical language.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 Poems

Rainer Maria Rilke’s poetry collection features translated works, supporting study and appreciation of German literature.

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, widowed bookstore owner on Alice Island, faces personal loss and a stolen prized Poe collection. When a mysterious package arrives, he gains a new perspective, rekindling hope, friendship, and the magic of books.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 Poems

A curated anthology of William Blake's poems, including Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience, assembled by Patti Smith and presented as a portrait of the poet’s visionary work.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 changing with the tides

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Fables

Jean de La Fontaine’s Fables are a classic collection of French verses adapted from diverse Eastern and Western tales, celebrated for their humor, nuance, and irony.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Rashmi Rathi

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 The Hunting of the Snark

A playful nonsense poem by Lewis Carroll that follows the Bellman and his crew as they chase the elusive Snark, blending wit, whimsical adventure, and imaginative humor.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 Gitanjali (song offerings)

Gitanjali, or "Song Offerings," is a celebrated collection of poems by Rabindranath Tagore, originally written in Bengali and translated into English, exploring spiritual devotion and human sentiment.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Meghadūta

Meghadūta is a celebrated Sanskrit lyric poem by the classical poet Kālidāsa, renowned for its poetic beauty, vivid pastoral imagery, and themes of longing and love.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Sea of Strangers

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Diary of a Romantica, Vol. I

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 Palipad-hangin

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 The Last Night of the Earth Poems

A compilation of Charles Bukowski's poems, reflecting his distinctive voice and lyrical exploration of contemporary American life.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 A gente mira no amor e acerta na solidão

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 The complete poetical works

Collected poetic works of Scotland’s national bard, Robert Burns, encompassing his celebrated Scottish dialect songs, juvenile poems, and English verses, alongside critical commentary and translations.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Love Her Wild

225 pages : 23 cm

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 Lullabies

A new original collection from Lang Leav that frames love‑centered poems in a musical structure—beginning with a Duet, moving through Interlude and Finale, and closing with an Encore from her best‑selling Love & Misadventure.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Love Poetry

📘 Milton's Poems

John Milton’s collection of poems includes his landmark epic Paradise Lost and other works that explore Biblical themes, the fall of man, and early modern English literature.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Locomotion

Lonnie, an eleven‑year‑old orphan, expresses his grief, hope, and love for his little sister Lili through poetry, learning to cope with loss and foster care while finding a voice in school.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry

📘 Collected Poems

A comprehensive anthology of Sylvia Plath’s poetry, spanning from 1956 to her 1963 suicide and including fifty selections from her earlier work.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Time Is a Mother

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Poems and Fragments

A collection of Sappho’s surviving lyric fragments, translated by Stanley Lombardo, with an introductory study by Pamela Gordon on her manuscripts and same‑sex desire.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Classical Poetry

📘 Dear Stranger, I Know How You Feel

Dear Stranger, I Know How You Feel is a book authored by Indian writer Ashish Bagrecha, identified by ISBN 9388754794.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Contemporary Poetry

📘 Poema de mio Cid

A medieval epic poem recounting the heroic deeds of the Castilian knight Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar, the legendary Cid, written anonymously around 1200 and preserved largely intact.

Genre: Poetry Subgenre: Narrative Poetry