Ezra Pound's surreally simple "In a Station of the Metro," Poe's "The Raven," Lucille Clifton's "Blessing the Boats" and Elizabeth Barrett Browning's "Sonnet 43" ("How do I love thee? Let me count the ways") are among the verses included in The Best Poems Ever: A Collection of the World's Greatest Voices, edited by Edric Mesmer. The paperback original contains more than 40 works.