The best Poetry: rankings

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The most famous quatrains of FitzGerald's Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám

1 Awake! for Morning in the Bowl of Night / Has flung the Stone that puts the Stars to Flight: / And Lo! the Hunter of the East has caught …
2 Come, fill the Cup, and in the Fire of Spring / The Winter Garment of Repentance fling: / The Bird of Time has but a little way …
3 Ah! my Belovéd, fill the Cup that clears / To-day of past Regrets and future Fears — / To-morrow?—Why, To-morrow I may be …

Eric ❤ 11 · ▲ 344 · 21 items

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Edgar Allan Poe's most famous poems

1 The Raven
2 The Bells
3 A Dream Within a Dream

vinylhead_grumpy ❤ 5 · ▲ 175 · 15 items

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Langston Hughes's most famous lines (with the poem they come from)

1 I, too, sing America. / I am the darker brother.
2 O, let America be America again — / The land that never has been yet — / And yet must be — the land where every man is free.
3 What happens to a dream deferred? / Does it dry up / like a raisin in the sun? / Or does it explode?

B. Johnston ❤ 2 · ▲ 93 · 12 items

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César Vallejo's most famous lines

1 There are blows in life, so hard… I don't know!
2 They are few, but they are… They open dark furrows / in the fiercest face and the strongest back.
3 I was born on a day / when God was sick, / gravely.

Camilo González ❤ 7 · ▲ 201 · 10 items

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Mario Benedetti's most famous poems

1 I Love You
2 Don't Save Yourself
3 Let's Make a Deal

Milagros Pereyra Ortiz ❤ 5 · ▲ 179 · 13 items

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Antonio Machado's most famous poems

1 Proverbs and Songs XXIX ("Traveller, there is no road")
2 Fields of Soria
3 Portrait

Mercedes Álvarez Diez ❤ 1 · ▲ 62 · 15 items

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The most famous lines of Nguyễn Du's Tale of Kiều

1 Young grass green to the horizon; / on the pear branch, a few white blossoms.
2 Living through a time when seas turn into mulberry fields, / what one sees breaks the heart.
3 In the Ngưng Bích tower her spring is locked away; / distant hills and the nearby moon keep her company.

Bùi Hoàng Minh ❤ 1 · ▲ 17 · 14 items

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The opening lines of the ten Mu'allaqat, the great pre-Islamic Arabic odes

1 Are these mute traces of a camp Umm Awfa's, / at Hawmanat al-Darraj and al-Mutathallam?
2 Stop, let us weep for the memory of a beloved and a dwelling / at the edge of the sand dunes between al-Dakhul and Hawmal.
3 Khawla has traces of a camp on the stony ground of Thahmad / that shine like the remains of a tattoo on the back of a hand.

matinee_old ❤ 4 · ▲ 144 · 10 items

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Bécquer's most famous rhymes

1 Rhyme XXI — What is poetry?
2 Rhyme LIII — The dark swallows will return
3 Rhyme XXIII — For a glance, a world

Alba Cano ❤ 1 · ▲ 23 · 16 items

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The most famous lines of Saint Teresa of Ávila and Saint John of the Cross

1 I live without living in myself, / and I hope for so high a life / that I die because I do not die.
2 Let nothing disturb you, / let nothing frighten you, / all things pass, / God does not change; / patience obtains all things… / God alone suffices.
3 One dark night, / fired with love's urgent longings, / oh, happy chance!, / I went out unseen, / my house being now all stilled.

Luis Fuentes ❤ 4 · ▲ 106 · 15 items

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Shakespeare's most famous sonnets

1 Sonnet 116 — Let me not to the marriage of true minds
2 Sonnet 29 — When, in disgrace with fortune and men's eyes
3 Sonnet 18 — Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?

vinylhead_grumpy ❤ 2 · ▲ 91 · 15 items

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade's most famous lines

1 In the middle of the road there was a stone / there was a stone in the middle of the road
2 Itabira is just a photograph on the wall. / But how it hurts!
3 World, world, vast world, / if my name were Raimundo / it would be a rhyme, it would not be a solution.

Diogo Nunes ❤ 1 · ▲ 68 · 13 items

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Lope de Vega's most famous lines (with the work they come from)

1 To believe that a heaven fits inside a hell, / to give your life and soul to a disillusion: / this is love; whoever has tasted it knows.
2 Sometimes what goes against the rules / pleases the taste for that very reason.
3 You tell me not to write, or not to live? / Make my love stop feeling, / and I will make my pen stop writing.

versionoriginal_errante ❤ 1 · ▲ 68 · 15 items

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Anna Akhmatova's best-known lines (with the poem)

1 If only you knew from what rubbish / poems grow, knowing no shame.
2 "Only children love like that, / and only the first time."
3 If living, then in freedom; / if dying, then at home.

Анастасия ❤ 0 · ▲ 63 · 13 items

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Taras Shevchenko's best-known lines (with the poem)

1 Bury me, then rise up / and break your chains, / and sprinkle your freedom / with the enemy's evil blood.
2 When I die, bury me / in a grave / amid the wide steppe / of my beloved Ukraine
3 And in the great new family, / the family of the free, / do not forget to remember me / with a kind and quiet word.

Наталія Кравченко ❤ 1 · ▲ 43 · 11 items

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Orhan Veli Kanık's best-loved poems and lines

1 I never knew songs were so beautiful / and words so inadequate / before I fell into this sorrow.
2 I am listening to Istanbul, my eyes closed.
3 If I wept, would you hear my voice / in my lines?

inkandpaper_antalya ❤ 1 · ▲ 41 · 13 items

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Odysseas Elytis's best-known lines (with their collection)

1 With the first drop of rain, summer was killed.
2 Sorrow grows beautiful because we resemble her.
3 The last journey looks like the very first.

cretebassline ❤ 2 · ▲ 37 · 14 items

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Carlos Drummond de Andrade's most famous poems

1 José
2 In Search of Poetry
3 Shoulders Bear the World

leitora.curioso ❤ 2 · ▲ 36 · 15 items

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Mihai Eminescu's best-known lines

1 Living in your narrow circle, / fortune keeps you company, / but in my own world I feel / immortal and cold.
2 Time goes by and time comes on, / all is old and all is new.
3 Everything in the world has passed away; only evil has remained.

Cristina Rusu ❤ 0 · ▲ 41 · 16 items

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Pablo Neruda's most famous poems

1 Walking Around
2 Poem 20
3 Poem 15

spoiler_merida ❤ 1 · ▲ 35 · 16 items

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Miguel Hernández's best-remembered lines (with the poem)

1 For we have so many things to talk about, / companion of my soul, companion.
2 Winds of the people carry me, / winds of the people sweep me along.
3 For freedom I bleed, I fight, I survive.

camila sepúlveda ❤ 1 · ▲ 34 · 13 items

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Cecília Meireles's best-known lines (with the poem)

1 I sing because the instant exists / and my life is complete. / I am neither happy nor sad: / I am a poet.
2 I don't know whether to play or study, / to run out or stay calm.
3 I learned from the springs / to let myself be cut / and always come back whole.

Diogo Nunes ❤ 0 · ▲ 36 · 11 items

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Emily Dickinson's most famous poems

1 Because I could not stop for Death
2 "Hope" is the thing with feathers
3 I'm Nobody! Who are you?

Orla McCarthy ❤ 1 · ▲ 33 · 17 items

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Attila József's most famous poems and lines

1 I have no father, no mother, / no god, no homeland.
2 For a week now I have been thinking / only of Mama, stopping now and then.
3 I love you as a child loves its mother, / as silent pits love their depths.

backpacker84 ❤ 0 · ▲ 34 · 12 items