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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 | 581,005 |
| 2 | Messy Room | Shel Silverstein | 419,729 |
| 3 | The Road Not Taken | Robert Frost | 306,600 |
| 4 | Still I Rise | Maya Angelou | 252,237 |
| 5 | A Dream Within A Dream | Edgar Allan Poe | 248,143 |
| 6 | I know why the caged bird sings | Maya Angelou | 234,378 |
| 7 | Let America Be America Again | Langston Hughes | 218,176 |
| 8 | There is another sky | Emily Dickinson | 210,316 |
| 9 | Whatif | Shel Silverstein | 196,883 |
| 10 | Phenomenal Woman | Maya Angelou | 189,649 |
| 11 | Mother to Son | Langston Hughes | 186,103 |
| 12 | To You. | Walt Whitman | 178,505 |
| 13 | I, Too, Sing America | Langston Hughes | 174,257 |
| 14 | Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening | Robert Frost | 172,128 |
| 15 | A Girl | Ezra Pound | 149,420 |
| 16 | Life Is Fine | Langston Hughes | 139,864 |
| 17 | Touched by An Angel | Maya Angelou | 138,622 |
| 18 | anyone lived in a pretty how town | e.e. cummings | 136,631 |
| 19 | Dream Deferred | Langston Hughes | 130,588 |
| 20 | The Raven | Edgar Allan Poe | 128,865 |
| 21 | Happiness | Raymond Carver | 125,839 |
| 22 | Fast rode the knight | Stephen Crane | 116,401 |
| 23 | Metaphors | Sylvia Plath | 114,945 |
| 24 | Waiting | Robert Frost | 114,455 |
| 25 | a pretty a day | e.e. cummings | 112,139 |
| 26 | Men | Maya Angelou | 110,947 |
| 27 | Bear In There | Shel Silverstein | 110,461 |
| 28 | somewhere i have never travelled, gladly beyond | e.e. cummings | 108,740 |
| 29 | in Just- | e.e. cummings | 107,754 |
| 30 | Quiet Girl | Langston Hughes | 107,350 |
| 31 | A Life | Sylvia Plath | 106,810 |
| 32 | Still Here | Langston Hughes | 105,798 |
| 33 | The Hollow Men | T.S. Eliot | 99,836 |
| 34 | Picture Puzzle Piece | Shel Silverstein | 99,813 |
| 35 | If those I loved were lost | Emily Dickinson | 96,768 |
| 36 | Snow | e.e. cummings | 90,462 |
| 37 | You love me -- you are sure | Emily Dickinson | 89,448 |
| 38 | Seeker Of Truth | e.e. cummings | 89,025 |
| 39 | One’s-Self I Sing. | Walt Whitman | 88,668 |
| 40 | if you like my poems let them | e.e. cummings | 88,250 |
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