Penny's Top 20 / September 2026

    

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in September 2026:

  1.  4 poems, Tom Hendricks

  2.  The History of the Airplane, Lawrence Ferlinghetti

  3.  Bus Ride on a Summer Night, George J. Dance

  4.  9/11, Robert Pinsky

  5.  The School Boy, William Blake

  6.  School, Winifred Welles

  7.  The Names, Billy Collins

  8.  In Memory of a Happy Day in February, Anne Brontë 

  9.  2 poems from "September's Song", Lucille Clifton

10.  Summer's End, Robert Hillyer

11.  World Trade Center, Julia Vinograd

12.  Poem for Kathy, Will Dockery

13.  Summer, Richard Chenevix Trench

14.  The Dwarf, Wallace Stevens

15.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens

16.  The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams

17.  A Summer Night, Robert Hillyer

18.  September, Annette Wynne

19.  Early Autumn, Edward Dowden

20. In August, Ethelwyn Wetherald

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 20 / August 2026

   

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in August 2026:

  1.  Afterglow, George J. Dance

  2.  4 poems, Tom Hendricks

  3.  In Memory of a Happy Day in February, Anne Brontë 

  4.  Bus Ride on a Summer Night, George J. Dance

  5.  August, Annette Wynne

  6.  Poem for Kathy, Will Dockery

  7.  Morning of My Life, Will Dockery

  8.  On Mulberry Drive, Will Dockery

  9.  Esthetique du Mal, Wallace Stevens

10.  August, Edmund Gosse

11.  Love-in-Idleness, Jane G. Austin

12.  "The Orient, Half Morocco, 8vo", Ruth Comfort Mitchell

13.  A Summer Night, Robert Hillyer

14.  The Upstairs Room, Weldon Kees

15.  Tired of Waiting, Will Dockery

16.  At the Gates of Dawn, George J. Dance

17.  Summer, Richard Chenevix Trench

18.  In August, Ethelwyn Wetherald

19.  Silk Diamond, George Sulzbach

20. Ode to Sport, Pierre de Coubertin

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 20 / July 2026

  

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in July 2026:

  1.  Tired of Waiting, Will Dockery

  2.  In the High Hills, Maxwell Struthers Burt

  3.  March, Edwin Arnold

  4.  Green, Paul Verlaine

  5.  To the Spring, John Davies

  6.  Vowels – Voyelles, Arthur Rimbaud

  7.  Hugh Selwyn Mauberley (IV-V), Ezra Pound

  8.  Flying Back in a Dream, JD Shirk

  9.  Poem for Kathy, Will Dockery

10.  Appeal, John Frederic Herbin

11.  A boat, beneath a sunny sky, Lewis Carroll

12.  To Helen [1848] , Edgar Allan Poe 

13.  Cedros, Jane G. Austin

14.  July, Annette Wynne

15.  The Mower to the Glow-Worms, Andrew Marvell

16.  June, Edgar Guest

17.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens

18.  Summer Morn in New Hampshire, Claude Mackay

19.  July in the West, James Newton Matthews

20. The Voice, Theodore Roethke

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 20 / June 2026

 

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in June 2026:

  1.   Song, Trumbull Stickney

  2.  Esthetique du Mal, Wallace Stevens

  3.  Mid-August, Duncan Campbell Scott

  4.  Adlestrop, Edward Thomas

  5.  June, Annette Wynne

  6.  Sketch, F.S. Flint

  7.  The Withered Leaf in June, F.M. MacKeracher

  8.  June Night, Hazel Hall

  9.  Do not go gentle into that good night, Dylan Thomas

10.  The Wind Blows Where It Will, JD Shirk

11.  Romance Novel – Roman, Arthur Rimbaud

12.  June Rain, Richard Aldington

13.  Dandelions, George Sulzbach

14.  The Dance of Death, Jane G. Austin

15.  Silk Diamond, George Sulzbach

16.  Ode to Sport, Pierre de Coubertin

17.  Skating, William Wordsworth

18.  Always There, George J. Dance

19.  Winter Ghost (Taking a Time Out), Will Dockery

20. My Father, Ann Taylor

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 20 / May 2026

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in May 2026:

  1.  A Road Song in May, Francis Sherman

  2.  God's Grandeur, Gerard Manley Hopkins

  3.  To My Mother, Christina Rossetti

  4.  A Dirge, Amy Levy

  5.  Holy Ghost Cement, AE Reiff

  6.  3 May poems, Annette Wynne

  7.  Afternoon on a Hill, Edna St. Vincent Millay

  8.  Chanson D'Aventure, C.S. Lewis

  9.  The Woods in May, Ellwood Roberts

10.  May, Jane G. Austin

11.  The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot

12.  Dandelions, George Sulzbach

13.  Skating, William Wordsworth

14.  In May, Madison Cawein

15.  Winter Ghost (Taking a Time Out), Will Dockery

16.  Songs to Joannes XIII, Mina Loy

17.  May, George J. Dance

18.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens

19.  Vowels, Arthur Rimbaud

20. The Stare's Nest by My Window, W.B. Yeats

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 20 / April 2026

    

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in April 2026:

  1.  Only the Lonely, George J. Dance

  2.  Two Tramps in Mud Time, Robert Frost

  3.  Daffodils, William Wordsworth

  4.  Easter-day, Henry Vaughan

  5.  Blossom-Time, Hazel Hall

  6.  Easter, John Freeman

  7.  Elegy, Florence Kilpatrick Mixter

  8.  March, Annette Wynne

  9.  April, Jane G. Austin

10.  Aprilian, Bliss Carman

11.  April, George J. Dance

12.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens

13.  Sonnet 1977, Will Dockery

14.  April the Magician, Annette Wynne

15.  Dandelions, George Sulzbach

16.  Skating, William Wordsworth

17.  Silk Diamond, George Sulzbach

18.  Spring, Richard Chenevix Trench

19.  Metric Figure, William Carlos Williams

20. A Russian Easter, Marya Zaturenska

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 30 / March 2026

Penny's Top 30

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in March 2026:

  1.  March, Hart Crane

  2.  Poem for Kathy, Will Dockery

  3.  A March Day in London, Amy Levy

  4.  First of March, Frederick Tennyson

  5.  A Song to Mithras, Rudyard Kipling

  6.  A March Night, Ethelwyn Wetherald

  7.  Skating, William Wordsworth

  8.  First Day of Spring, F.W. Harvey

  9.  A Thought for March 1860, Charles Tennyson Turner

10.  Saint Patrick, Edwin Markham

11.  Esthetique du Mal, Wallace Stevens

12.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens

13.  A Morning Song (for the First Day of Spring), Eleanor Farjeon

14.  Vowels, Arthur Rimbaud

15.  Silk Diamond, George Sulzbach

16.  March, Jane G. Austin

17.  Afterglow, George J. Dance

18.  Ode to Sport, Pierre de Coubertin

19.  Winterworld Descending, Will Dockery

20. Spring, Richard Chenevix Trench

21. March, Annette Wynne

22. Winter's Muse Calling, JD Shirk

23. Mars & Avril, George J. Dance

24. A Meadow in Spring, Tom Bishop

25. The Bright Extensive Will, AE Reiff

26. March, George J. Dance

27. Song, Trumbull Stickney

28. March is the Month of Expectation, Emily Dickinson

29. United Dames of America, Wallace Stevens

30. Dear March - Come in -, Emily Dickinson

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 30 / February 2026

In February, for the first time ever, Penny had 20 poems receive more than 100 page views in a month. While welcome, that crowded out most of the month's new poetry. Rather than have the latter fail to chart, Penny is provisionally expanding the monthly chart to a Top 30. 

Penny's Top 30

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in February 2026:

  1.  Poem for Kathy, Will Dockery

  2.  Afterglow, George J. Dance

  3.  February, Ina Coolbrith

  4.  United Dames of America, Wallace Stevens

  5.  The Great Willows, Hector de Saint-Denys Garneau

  6.  Cherry-Ripe, Robert Herrick

  7.  The Blue Heron, Theodore Goodridge Roberts

  8.  To the Sea Angel, Will Dockery

  9.  Drifting Away: A Fragment, Charles Kingsley

10.  Winter Nightfall, Robert Bridges

11.  Before I sleep, some dreams draw nigh, George MacDonald

12.  A Dirge for Summer, Sebastian Evans 

13.  A Rhyme of Summer, James Berry Bensel

14.  Penny, or Penny's Hat, George J. Dance

15.  "Whan That Aprille . . .", John Dos Passos

16.  The Man with the Blue Guitar, Wallace Stevens

17.  A May Morning, John Davidson

18.  January 1939, Dylan Thomas

19.  Fern Hill, Dylan Thomas

20. Ode to Sport, Pierre de Coubertin

21.  I'm Not Just February, Annette Wynne

22. Winter's Muse Calling, JD Shirk

23. Haiku and Triolet, R.S. Mallari

24. The Holly and the Ivy

25. Skating, William Wordsworth

26. Winterworld Descending, Will Dockery

27. Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens

28. Vowels, Arthur Rimbaud

29. February, Sophie Jewett

30. A Valentine, Lewis Carroll

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 20 / January 2026

   

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in January 2026:

  1.  The Winter Lakes, William Wilfred Campbell

  2.  Snow, Snow, George J. Dance

  3.  A Song for the New Year, Barry Cornwall

  4.  The Second Coming, W.B. Yeats

  5.  Esthetique du Mal, Wallace Stevens

  6.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens

  7.  Winter, Bernard Barton

  8.  Skating, William Wordsworth

  9.  A January Night, Thomas Hardy

10.  Mild is the Parting Year, Walter Savage Landor

11.  January, John Clare

12.  The Year Has Changed Its Name, William Morris

13.  January, Ellwood Roberts

14.  Winterworld Descending, Will Dockery

15.  January, Jane G. Austin

16.  Vowels, Arthur Rimbaud

17.  Prey, George J. Dance

18.  Ode to Sport, Pierre de Coubertin

19.  I'm January, Annette Wynne

20. January, George J. Dance

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 20 / December 2025

  

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in December 2025:

  1.  December, John Clare

  2.  Christmas, W.H. Davies

  3.  Christmas at Sea, Robert Louis Stevenson

  4.  Winterworld Descending, Will Dockery

  5.  A Winter Elegy, Charles Lotin Hildreth

  6.  The Three Kings, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

  7.  Reflections in Netley Abbey, Edward Hamley

  8.  Prey, George J. Dance

  9.  December Finds Himself Again a Child, Nicholas Gordon

10.  Across a Wall, JD Shirk

11.  Skating, William Wordsworth

12.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens

13.  The Poor Boy's Christmas, Ellis Parker Butler

14.  December, Mary E. Blake

15.  Vowels, Arthur Rimbaud

16.  The Rich Boy's Christmas, Ellis Parker Butler

17.  The Clock-Tower Bell, Rose Hawthorne Lathrop

18.  Autumn, John Clare

19.  Ode to Sport, Pierre de Coubertin

20. December, Folgore da San Geminiano

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 20 / November 2025

 

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in November 2025:

  1.  Prey, George J. Dance

  2.  December, John Clare

  3.  Skating, William Wordsworth

  4.  A November Grave, James B. Kenyon

  5.  How happy I was if I could forget, Emily Dickinson

  6.  I Speak Your Name, Sophie Jewett

  7.  All Day It Has Rained, Alun Lewis

  8.  Dreamers, Siegfried Sassoon

  9.  Autumn, John Clare

10.  There's Nothing Like the Sun, Edward Thomas

11.  Away, George J. Dance

12.  United Dames of America, Wallace Stevens

13.  November, Folgore da San Geminiano

14.  November, Maurice Thompson

15.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens

16.  Autumn Days, Jones Very

17.  Vowels, Arthur Rimbaud

18.  Ode to Sport, Pierre de Coubertin

19.  Wander-Thirst, Gerald Gould

20. Theme in Yellow, Carl Sandburg

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 20 / October 2025

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in October 2025:

  1.  Christmas Sonnet, E.A. Woodward

  2.  Spring Longings, Francis W. Bourdillon

  3.  October, Eleanor Wylie

  4.  Vowels, Arthur Rimbaud

  5.  Suspending Winter Willingly in Disbelief, Cathleen Harvea Guthrie

  6.  Memory of My Father, Patrick Kavanagh

  7.  Coats, JD Shirk

  8.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens

  9.  The Cricket to October, Anne Whitney

10.  October, Tom MacInnes 

11.  Away, George J. Dance

12.  Autumn, Richard Chenevix Trench

13.  The Empty Places, Marjory Nicholls

14.  Skating, William Wordsworth

15.  Leaf-Fall in October, John Freeman

16.  Love Songs of the Open Road, Kendall Banning

17.  World Trade Center, Julia Vinograd

18.  October, Folgore da San Geminiano

19.  Ode to Sport, Pierre de Coubertin

20. October's gold is dim, David Gray

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 20 / September 2025

      

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in September 2025:

  1.  The Dwarf, Wallace Stevens

  2.  Vowels, Arthur Rimbaud

  3.  Jonah, AE Reiff

  4.  Away, George J. Dance

  5.  News, AE Reiff

  6.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens

  7.  Amarant, AE Reiff

  8.  The Branch, AE Reiff

  9.  Waiting for Winter, JD Shirk

10.  The Bright Extensive Will, AE Reiff

11.   Angel Standing in the Sun, AE Reiff

12.  Once Like a Light, AE Reiff

13.  The Plant, AE Reiff

14.  Heaven's Man, AE Reiff

15.  Sunlight, AE Reiff

16.  September, Michael Field

17.  For Once, Then, Something, Robert Frost

18.  Song, Trumbull Stickney

19.  Summer Past, John Gray

20. September, Folgore da San Geminiano

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 20 / August 2025

     

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in August 2025:

  1.   A Song to Mithras, Rudyard Kipling

  2.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens

  3.  Fern Hill, Dylan Thomas

  4.  Mid-August, Duncan Campbell Scott

  5.  As August Comes, Clinton Scollard

  6.  The Landscape, William Shenstone

  7.  August, Lizette Woodworth Reese

  8.  A Song in August, Francis Sherman

  9.  August, 1918, Maurice Baring

10.  From Piccadilly in August, John Freeman

11.   The Winter's Walk, John Hawkesworth

12.  Vowels, Arthur Rimbaud

13.  Tardy Spring, George Meredith

14.  The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams

15.  Angel Standing in the Sun, AE Reiff

16.  Mnemosyne, Trumbull Stickney

17.  The Bright Extensive Will, AE Reiff

18.  Morning in August, James Herbert Morse

19.  Ganesha Girl on Rankin, Will Dockery

20. August, Folgore da San Geminiano

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 20 / July 2025

    

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in July 2025:

  1.   Summer 1969, Michael G. Munoz

  2.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens

  3.  Morning of My Life, Will Dockery

  4.  The Mounting Summer, Brilliant and Ominous, Delmore Schwartz

  5.  The Moon and Stars are Making Love, George J. Dance

  6.  Esthetique du Mal, Wallace Stevens

  7.  Even in the bluest noonday of July, Robert Louis Stevenson

  8.  July, William Morris

  9.  I am a Canadian, John Diefenbaker

10.  Gathered Roses, Francis W. Bourdillon

11.   Summer Storm, Duncan Campbell Scott

12.  July, Folgore da San Geminiano

13.  A July Noon, Helen Gray Cone

14.  June, Folgore da San Geminiano

15.  The Bright Extensive Will, AE Reiff

16.  Ode to Sport, Pierre de Coubertin

17.  At Day-close in November, Thomas Hardy

18.  Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion, Wallace Stevens

19.  When Mary the Mother Kissed the Child, Charles G.D. Roberts

20. The Gravedigger, Bliss Carman

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 20 / June 2025

   

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in June 2025:

  1.  Mind on a Wander, JD Shirk

  2.  Wander-Thirst, Gerald Gould

  3.  Metric Figure, William Carlos Williams

  4.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens

  5.  Skating, William Wordsworth

  6.  Daddy, Sylvia Plath

  7.  My Father, Ann Taylor

  8.  June Rain, Richard Aldington

  9.  Esthetique du Mal, Wallace Stevens

10.  June, Folgore da San Geminiano

11.   Spring Again, George J. Dance

12.  A Summer Invocation, Walt Whitman

13.  Laurentian Lure, Arthur S. Bourinot

14.  Ode to Sport, Pierre de Coubertin

15.  June Days, Charles Lotin Hildreth

16.  A June Day, John Todhunter

17.  The Dwarf, Wallace Stevens

18.  In the Fields, Charlotte Mew

19.  May, Folgore da San Geminiano

20. Ballad of the Goodly Fere, Ezra Pound

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 20 / May 2025

  

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in May 2025:

  1.  On Mulberry Drive, Will Dockery

  2.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens

  3.  Spring Again, George J. Dance

  4.  May Wind, Sara Teasdale

  5.  The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot 

  6.  An April Shower, George J. Dance

  7.  April on the Battlefields, Leonora Speyer

  8.  Esthetique du Mal, Wallace Stevens

  9.  Ode to Sport, Pierre de Coubertin

10.  Youth and Nature, Philip Bourke Marston

11.  The Courage That My Mother Had, Edna St. Vincent Millay

12.  Song on May Morning, John Milton

13.  Philomel, Richard Barnfield

14.  Skating, William Wordsworth

15.  Waiting for the May, Denis McCarthy

16.  The Entering May, Ralph Waldo Emerson

17.  The Town Rabbit in the Country, Camilla Doyle

18.  Winter Ghost (Taking a Time Out), Will Dockery

19.  May Day, Sara Teasdale

20. North Wind in October, Robert Bridges

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 20 / April 2025

 

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in April 2025:

  1.  The Waste Land, T.S. Eliot

  2.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens

  3.  Esthetique du Mal, Wallace Stevens

  4.  An April Fool of Long Ago, Jean Blewett

  5.  An April Shower, George J. Dance

  6.  Ode to Sport, Pierre de Coubertin

  7.  April on the Battlefields, Leonora Speyer

  8.  Spring Again, George J. Dance
  9.  Skating, William Wordsworth

10.  April, Folgore da San Geminiano

11.  An Easter Carol, Christina Rossetti

12.  Vowels, Arthur Rimbaud

13.  The Lonely Hunter, Fiona MacLeod

14.  To the Sea Angel, Will Dockery

15.  March, Folgore da San Geminiano

16.  The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams

17.  Chaos in Motion and Not in Motion, Wallace Stevens

18.  Puella Parvula, Wallace Stevens

19.  Penny's Blog 2.0, George J. Dance

20. The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats

Source: Blogger, "Stats" 

Penny's Top 20 / March 2025

Penny's Top 20

The most-visited poems on  The Penny Blog in March 2025:

  1.  Winter Ghost (Taking a Time Out), Will Dockery

  2.  Penny's Blog 2.0, George J. Dance

  3.  Skating, William Wordsworth

  4.  Large Red Man Reading, Wallace Stevens

  5.  Tired of Waiting, Will Dockery

  6.  Esthetique du Mal, Wallace Stevens

  7.  Spring is like a perhaps hand, E.E. Cummings

  8.  Always Marry an April Girl, Ogden Nash
  9.  Vowels, Arthur Rimbaud

10.  A Brief Winter Sunset, JD Shirk

11.  A Morning Song (for the First Day of Spring), Eleanor Farjeon

12.  A Disappointment, Wilfrid Scawen Blunt

13.  March is the Month of Expectation, Emily Dickinson 

14.  Song in March, William Gilmore Simms

15.  The Red Wheelbarrow, William Carlos Williams

16.  Saint Augustine Blues #6, Will Dockery

17.  Ode to Sport, Pierre de Coubertin

18.  March, Folgore da San Geminiano

19.  Spring: An ode, Jane West

20. To My Sister, William Wordsworth

Source: Blogger, "Stats"