📚 Poetry

30 works · ordered by editions in print

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Below are the 30 works carrying the subject poetry in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
La Divina Commedia	Dante Alighieri	1472	1,339
Ἰλιάς	Ὅμηρος	1505	1,083
Ὀδύσσεια	Ὅμηρος	1488	1,067
Leaves of Grass	Walt Whitman	1855	755
The Canterbury Tales	Geoffrey Chaucer	1478	722
Aeneis	Publius Vergilius Maro	1592	721
The Prophet	Kahlil Gibran	1923	570
De rerum natura	Titus Lucretius Carus	1486	537
Metamorphoses	Ovid	1479	501
Inferno	Dante Alighieri	1767	446
Paradise Lost	John Milton	1667	396
The Night Before Christmas	Clement Clarke Moore	1857	389
Poems	William Wordsworth	1807	372
Os Lusíadas	Luís de Camões	1572	368
The complete poetical works	Robert Burns	1786	293
The Raven	Edgar Allan Poe	1845	287
Poema de mio Cid	Anonymous	1868	269
The Ballad of Reading Gaol	Oscar Wilde	1896	241
Gitanjali (song offerings)	Rabindranath Tagore	1910	217
Ars Amatoria	Ovid	1494	200
The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems	Henry Wadsworth Longfellow	1800	185
Lays of ancient Rome	Thomas Babington Macaulay	1800	176
Rime of the ancient mariner	Samuel Taylor Coleridge	1827	156
The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II	Emily Dickinson	1890	151
Poems	William Blake	1783	141
Faerie queene	Edmund Spenser	1590	139
Gedichte	Johann Wolfgang von Goethe	1700	136
Poems	William Butler Yeats	1895	135
Veinte poemas de amor y una canción desesperada	Pablo Neruda	1924	135
The poetical works of Sir Walter Scott	Sir Walter Scott	1800	134

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 29 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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