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	464069
2	Messy Room	Shel Silverstein	399968
3	The Road Not Taken	Robert Frost	278619
4	A Dream Within A Dream	Edgar Allan Poe	231693
5	Still I Rise	Maya Angelou	229081
6	There is another sky	Emily Dickinson	190437
7	Let America Be America Again	Langston Hughes	187794
8	Whatif	Shel Silverstein	180976
9	I know why the caged bird sings	Maya Angelou	179765
10	Phenomenal Woman	Maya Angelou	173772
11	To You.	Walt Whitman	165103
12	Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening	Robert Frost	149281
13	I, Too, Sing America	Langston Hughes	143402
14	Mother to Son	Langston Hughes	141479
15	A Girl	Ezra Pound	135366
16	Touched by An Angel	Maya Angelou	126788
17	Life Is Fine	Langston Hughes	123716
18	The Raven	Edgar Allan Poe	116482
19	anyone lived in a pretty how town	e.e. cummings	116054
20	Happiness	Raymond Carver	114137
21	Fast rode the knight	Stephen Crane	110936
22	Dream Deferred	Langston Hughes	107760
23	a pretty a day	e.e. cummings	103894
24	Men	Maya Angelou	103371
25	Waiting	Robert Frost	101794
26	Bear In There	Shel Silverstein	100615
27	Quiet Girl	Langston Hughes	98476
28	A Life	Sylvia Plath	97763
29	Still Here	Langston Hughes	96654
30	Metaphors	Sylvia Plath	96455
31	Picture Puzzle Piece	Shel Silverstein	90213
32	If those I loved were lost	Emily Dickinson	89576
33	if you like my poems let them	e.e. cummings	81449
34	You love me -- you are sure	Emily Dickinson	80319
35	Snow	e.e. cummings	80043
36	Seeker Of Truth	e.e. cummings	79544
37	The Negro Mother	Langston Hughes	79447
38	One’s-Self I Sing.	Walt Whitman	78784
39	Birches	Robert Frost	77853
40	On the Beach at Night.	Walt Whitman	77802