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Thursday, January 1, 2026

Penny's Top 100 of 2025

  

Penny's Top 100
The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in 2025:

  1.  Penny's Blog, George J. Dance 
  2.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens
  3.  Skating, William Wordsworth
  4.  Vowels, Arthur Rimbaud
  5.  The Dwarf, Wallace Stevens 

  6.  Ode to Sport, Pierre de Coubertin 
  7.  Christmas Sonnet, E.A. Woodward 
  8.  Esthetique du Mal, Wallace Stevens
  9.  December, John Clare 
10.  The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot

11.  The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams 
12.  Spring Longings, Francis W. Bourdillon
13.  Winterworld Descending, Will Dockery
15.  Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion, Wallace Stevens

16.  News, AE Reiff
17.  Spring Again, George J. Dance
18.  Away, George J. Dance
20.  A Song to Mithras, Rudyard Kipling

21.  January, George J. Dance
22.  Ganesha Girl on Rankin, Will Dockery
23.  Penny's Blog 2.0, George J. Dance
24.  On Mulberry Drive, Will Dockery
25.  Once Like a Light, AE Reiff

26.  Prey, George J. Dance
27.  April on the Battlefields, Leonora Speyer
28.  An April Shower, George J. Dance
29.  Mind on a Wander, JD Shirk
30.  Wander-Thirst, Gerald Gould

32.  Fern Hill, Dylan Thomas
33.  Jonah, AE Reiff
34.  Tired of Waiting, Will Dockery
35.  Amarant, AE Reiff

36.  'Tis the World's Winter, Alfred Tennyson
38.  Morning of My Life, Will Dockery
39.  Waiting for Winter, JD Shirk
40.  The Lodger, Francis Sherman

41.  The Branch, AE Reiff
42.  Summer 1969, Michael G. Munoz
43.  Song in March, William Gilmore Simms
44.  March, Folgore da San Geminiano
45.  June, Folgore da San Geminiano

46.  Song on May Morning, John Milton
47.  An Easter Carol, Christina Rossetti
48.  Daddy, Sylvia Plath
49.  Spring: An ode, Jane West
50.  The Plant, AE Reiff

51.  Christmas, W.H. Davies
52.  A Summer Invocation, Walt Whitman
53.  Heaven's Man, AE Reiff
54.  April, Folgore da San Geminiano
55.  March is the Month of Expectation, Emily Dickinson

56.  A Brief Winter Sunset, JD Shirk
58.  A Disappointment, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt
59.  Song: To Celia, Ben Jonson
60.  Song, Trumbull Stickney

61.  October, Elinor Wylie
62.  Sunlight, AE Reiff
63.  A June Day, John Todhunter
64.  The Lonely Hunter, Fiona MacLeod
65.  Mid-August, Duncan Campbell Scott

66.  Philomel, Richard Barnfield
67.  Barley Feed, AE Reiff
68.  Coats, JD Shirk
69.  The Courage That My Mother Had, Edna St. Vincent Millay
70.  The Town Rabbit in the Country, Camilla Doyle

71.  Autumn, John Clare
72.  Suspending Winter Willingly in Disbelief, Cathleen Harvea Guthrie
73.  Memory of My Father, Patrick Kavanagh
74.  The Landscape, William Shenstone
75.  September, Michael Field 

76.  Even in the bluest noonday of July, Robert Louis Stevenson
77.  For Once, Then, Something, Robert Frost
78.  Spring Sonnet, E.A. Woodward
80.  June Days, Charles Lotin Hildreth

81.  May, Folgore da San Geminiano
82.  How happy I was if I could forget, Emily Dickinson
83.  A November Grave, James B. Kenyon
84.  As August Comes, Clinton Scollard
85.  Youth and Nature, Philip Marston

86.  Before the Birth of Spring, Charles Leonard Moore
87.  Christmas at Sea, Robert Louis Stevenson
88.  From Piccadilly in August, John Freeman
89.  Midnight Cry, R.K. Singh
90.  Laurentian Lure, Arthur S. Bourinot

91.  The Entering May, Ralph Waldo Emerson
92.  Metric Figure, William Carlos Williams
93.  Waiting for the May, Denis MacCarthy
94.  Winter Sunset, William Carlos Williams
95.  All Day It Has Rained, Alun Lewis

96.  October, Folgore da San Geminiano
97.  A Winter Elegy, Charles Lotin Hildreth
98.  Morning in August, James Herbert Morse
99.  The Three Kings, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
100 Reflections in Netley Abbey, Edward Hamley


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