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Last Year’s Top Fifty Poems

Of all the poems in my archive, these got the most hits throughout 2009.
Total hits: 3,980,116.

  1.  Just Because , by Natalie Dorsch
  2.  Ozymandias , by Percy Bysshe Shelley
  3.  The Eagle , by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
  4.  The Average Child , by Mike Buscemi
  5.  I Am Not There , by Mary Elizabeth Frye
  6.  Pretty Good , by Charles Osgood
  7.  Richard Cory , by Edwin Arlington Robinson
  8.  Leisure , by William Henry Davies
  9.  A Visit from Saint Nicholas , by Clement Clarke Moore
  10.  The Race , attributed to Dr. D.H. "Dee" Groberg
  11.  No Good Deed Goes Unpunished (So Shines a Good Deed in a Naughty World) , by Franklin P. Adams
  12.  Trees , by Joyce Kilmer
  13.  The Calf-Path , by Sam Walter Foss
  14.  Funeral Blues , by W. H. Auden (1907-1973)
  15.  Résumé , by Dorothy Parker
  16.  The Deacon’s Masterpiece or, the Wonderful "One-hoss Shay": A Logical Story , by Oliver Wendell Holmes
  17.  maggie and milly and molly and may , by e. e. cummings
  18.  The Cremation of Sam McGee , by Robert W. Service
  19.  Good Timber , by Douglas Malloch
  20.  My Get-Up-And-Go Has Got Up and Went , Anonymous
  21.  Outwitted , by Edwin Markham
  22.  The End of the World , by Archibald MacLeish
  23.  The Star , by Jane Taylor
  24.  Song for a Fifth Child , by Ruth Hulburt Hamilton
  25.  The Angry Man , by Phyllis McGinley
  26.  Opportunity , by Edward Rowland Sill
  27.  The Spider and the Fly: A Fable , by Mary Howitt
  28.  The Little Blue Engine , by Shel Silverstein
  29.  Manhattan Buddha , by Mark Smith-Soto
  30.  Piano , by D. H. Lawrence
  31.  Incident , by Countee Cullen
  32.  Peanut-Butter Sandwich , by Shel Silverstein
  33.  The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver , by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  34.  The Bat , by Theodore Roethke
  35.  Crying in the Rain , by Howard Greenfield
  36.  O What Is That Sound? , by W. H. Auden
  37.  America the Beautiful , by Katherine Lee Bates
  38.  The Watcher , by Margaret Widdemer
  39.  I Remember, I Remember , by Thomas Hood
  40.  The Children’s Hour , by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  41.  Breakfast , by Anna Jean Allen
  42.  Little Boy Blue , by Eugene Field
  43.  Little Boxes , by Malvina Reynolds
  44.  Remember , by Christina Rossetti
  45.  Foxtrot From a Play , by W. H. Auden
  46.  Mr. Flood’s Party , by Edwin Arlington Robinson
  47.  The Fire of Driftwood: Devereux Farm, near Marblehead , by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
  48.  First Fig , by Edna St. Vincent Millay
  49.  The Elements , by Tom Lehrer
  50.  My Nose Garden , by Shel Silverstein
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