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Since I switched the American Poems site over to a database format (not really visible to you as a user), I am able to do a lot of cool things. One is to list the forty most read poems on the site. So on this page you can see how many times the most popular poems have been read since February 28, 2004.
| Poem | Poet | Views | | 1 | i carry your heart with me | e.e. cummings | 695,338 |
| 2 | Messy Room | Shel Silverstein | 433,598 |
| 3 | The Road Not Taken | Robert Frost | 322,101 |
| 4 | I know why the caged bird sings | Maya Angelou | 271,597 |
| 5 | Still I Rise | Maya Angelou | 268,003 |
| 6 | A Dream Within A Dream | Edgar Allan Poe | 258,506 |
| 7 | Let America Be America Again | Langston Hughes | 235,132 |
| 8 | There is another sky | Emily Dickinson | 224,025 |
| 9 | Mother to Son | Langston Hughes | 216,522 |
| 10 | Whatif | Shel Silverstein | 207,394 |
| 11 | Phenomenal Woman | Maya Angelou | 198,197 |
| 12 | I, Too, Sing America | Langston Hughes | 191,565 |
| 13 | Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | Robert Frost | 187,222 |
| 14 | To You. | Walt Whitman | 185,853 |
| 15 | A Girl | Ezra Pound | 157,451 |
| 16 | The Hollow Men | T.S. Eliot | 152,560 |
| 17 | Life Is Fine | Langston Hughes | 151,273 |
| 18 | anyone lived in a pretty how town | e.e. cummings | 151,120 |
| 19 | Dream Deferred | Langston Hughes | 148,621 |
| 20 | Touched by An Angel | Maya Angelou | 147,676 |
| 21 | in Just- | e.e. cummings | 138,512 |
| 22 | Metaphors | Sylvia Plath | 137,973 |
| 23 | somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond | e.e. cummings | 136,138 |
| 24 | The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe | 135,709 |
| 25 | Happiness | Raymond Carver | 133,642 |
| 26 | Waiting | Robert Frost | 123,333 |
| 27 | A Life | Sylvia Plath | 122,215 |
| 28 | Fast rode the knight | Stephen Crane | 120,100 |
| 29 | Bear In There | Shel Silverstein | 118,153 |
| 30 | a pretty a day | e.e. cummings | 117,951 |
| 31 | Men | Maya Angelou | 116,390 |
| 32 | Quiet Girl | Langston Hughes | 112,495 |
| 33 | Still Here | Langston Hughes | 112,413 |
| 34 | Picture Puzzle Piece | Shel Silverstein | 106,077 |
| 35 | Pioneers! O Pioneers! | Walt Whitman | 104,311 |
| 36 | Snow | e.e. cummings | 101,230 |
| 37 | If those I loved were lost | Emily Dickinson | 101,093 |
| 38 | Lady Lazarus | Sylvia Plath | 95,567 |
| 39 | Seeker Of Truth | e.e. cummings | 95,328 |
| 40 | You love me -- you are sure | Emily Dickinson | 95,257 |
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