The Iliad
750 BC★ 9.9
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The Odyssey
700 BC★ 9.9
The Divine Comedy
1321★ 9.8
Aeneid
19 BC★ 9.5
Paradise Lost
1667★ 9.5
The Waste Land
1922★ 9.4
Leaves of Grass
1855★ 9.3
The Collected Poems
1939★ 9.1
The Essential Emily Dickinson
1886★ 8.9
The Collected Poems
1954★ 8.6
The Collected Poems
1963★ 8.6
Metamorphoses
8★ 8.6
The Flowers of Evil (Oxford World's Classics)
1857★ 8.5
Songs of Innocence and of Experience
1789★ 8.2
Poems
1979★ 7.8
On the Nature of Things
55 BC★ 7.6
Gilgamesh
Author unknown
1700 BC★ 7.5
The Odes of Horace
23 BC★ 7.5
Beowulf
Author unknown
1000★ 7.4
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
Author unknown
1375★ 7.4
The Poems of Catullus
54 BC★ 7.4
The Essential Rumi
1273★ 7.4
The Prose Edda
1220★ 7.3
Inferno
1321★ 7.3
Theogony and Works and Days
700 BC★ 7.2
The Book of Songs
Author unknown
600 BC★ 7.2
Selected Poems
1850★ 7.2
The Major Works
1744★ 7.1
Shahnameh
977★ 7.1
The Complete Poems
1966★ 7.1
The Satires
100★ 7.0
The Major Works
1822★ 7.0
A Season in Hell
1873★ 7.0
The Odes of Pindar
470 BC★ 7.0
Selected Verse
1936★ 6.9
Selected Poems
1938★ 6.9
Selected Poems of Rabindranath Tagore
1941★ 6.9
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
1798★ 6.8
Selected Poetry
1837★ 6.7
If Not, Winter
600 BC★ 6.7