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	442994
2	Messy Room	Shel Silverstein	397296
3	The Road Not Taken	Robert Frost	274117
4	A Dream Within A Dream	Edgar Allan Poe	229440
5	Still I Rise	Maya Angelou	225204
6	There is another sky	Emily Dickinson	186983
7	Let America Be America Again	Langston Hughes	183413
8	Whatif	Shel Silverstein	178256
9	I know why the caged bird sings	Maya Angelou	171752
10	Phenomenal Woman	Maya Angelou	171146
11	To You.	Walt Whitman	163061
12	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	Robert Frost	144796
13	I, Too, Sing America	Langston Hughes	138954
14	Mother to Son	Langston Hughes	133400
15	A Girl	Ezra Pound	132880
16	Touched by An Angel	Maya Angelou	124738
17	Life Is Fine	Langston Hughes	121386
18	The Raven	Edgar Allan Poe	114235
19	anyone lived in a pretty how town	e.e. cummings	112747
20	Happiness	Raymond Carver	112161
21	Fast rode the knight	Stephen Crane	110264
22	Dream Deferred	Langston Hughes	106242
23	a pretty a day	e.e. cummings	102628
24	Men	Maya Angelou	102314
25	Waiting	Robert Frost	99883
26	Bear In There	Shel Silverstein	98753
27	Quiet Girl	Langston Hughes	97296
28	A Life	Sylvia Plath	96722
29	Still Here	Langston Hughes	95239
30	Metaphors	Sylvia Plath	93765
31	If those I loved were lost	Emily Dickinson	88501
32	Picture Puzzle Piece	Shel Silverstein	88327
33	if you like my poems let them	e.e. cummings	80340
34	Snow	e.e. cummings	78807
35	You love me -- you are sure	Emily Dickinson	78774
36	The Negro Mother	Langston Hughes	78369
37	Seeker Of Truth	e.e. cummings	78088
38	One’s-Self I Sing.	Walt Whitman	77614
39	On the Beach at Night.	Walt Whitman	76640
40	Romance	Edgar Allan Poe	76098