Azaleas
1925★ 5.4
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The Peace of Wild Things
2018★ 5.4
Paul Verlaine
1896★ 5.4
Selected Poems 1988-2013
2013★ 5.5
Lunch Poems
1964★ 5.5
Dark Elderberry Branch
2012★ 5.5
Selected Poems
1918★ 5.7
Selected Poems of Victor Hugo
1885★ 5.8
Poems New and Collected, 1957-1997
1998★ 5.9
The Collected Poems of Langston Hughes
1967★ 6.3
The Romance of the Rose
1275★ 6.5
Layli and Majnun
1192★ 6.5
Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair
1924★ 6.5
Cold Mountain Poems
800★ 6.6
The Nibelungenlied
Author unknown
1200★ 6.6
The Song of Roland
Author unknown
1115★ 6.6
If Not, Winter
600 BC★ 6.7
Selected Poetry
1837★ 6.7
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1798★ 6.8
Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore
1941★ 6.9