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Odes and Sonnets - Clark Ashton SMITH
Odes and Sonnets - Clark Ashton SMITH
- Author: Clark Ashton SMITH
- Genre: Single author
Clark Ashton Smith, nicknamed one of the "big three" of Weird Tales (the famous pulp fiction magazine), was also a romantic-style poet, contributor to the Cthulhu Mythos and a literary friend of H.P Lovecraft. As a poet, he was considered one of the...
The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge - Francis LEDWIDGE
The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge - Francis LEDWIDGE
- Author: Francis LEDWIDGE
- Genre: Single author
Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet, served in an Irish battalion ("The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers") of the British Army during World War I. His first volume of poems was published while he served, in 1915; two more were published posthumously, and were...
Voices Of The Night - And Other Poems - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Voices Of The Night - And Other Poems - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Single author
Longfellow's first collection of early poems, published in 1895, with a short biography by the editor, a chronological list of his works, plus analysis and commentary on Longfellow's themes, style, and talent, by various authors. ( Michele Fry)...
Stanzas Written in His Library - Robert Southey
Stanzas Written in His Library - Robert Southey
- Author: Robert Southey
- Genre: Single author
Poem #619 in The Book Of Georgian Verse, page 1110, published 1909.This poem seems so appropriate to what we do at LibriVox, surrounding ourselves with, learning from, and keeping alive the memories of deceased authors . . . their ideas, concerns,...
The White Canoe and Other Verse - Alan SULLIVAN
The White Canoe and Other Verse - Alan SULLIVAN
- Author: Alan SULLIVAN
- Genre: Single author
This early collection of Alan Sullivan's work is from the pen of a young Canadian author who portrays Canada's short Summer season as the voyage through a Summer of life in an allegorical "white canoe". During that voyage Sullivan shares with the...
In the Net of the Stars - F. S. FLINT
In the Net of the Stars - F. S. FLINT
- Author: F. S. FLINT
- Genre: Single author
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school at the age of 13 to pursue rigorous self-study, eventually mastering 10 languages, including French and...
Poems for my Children - Ann Hawkshaw
Poems for my Children - Ann Hawkshaw
- Author: Ann Hawkshaw
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Published in 1847, five years after her epic poem, 'Dionysus the Areopagite', 'Poems For My Children' was Ann Hawkshaw's second collection of poetry. The poems are dedicated to her six children and many are written in an intimate conversational...
The Lay of the Last Minstrel - Sir Walter Scott
The Lay of the Last Minstrel - Sir Walter Scott
- Author: Sir Walter Scott
- Genre: Single author / Narratives
An aging minstrel seeks who hospitality at Newark Castle and in recompense tells a tale of a sixteenth-century Border feud. In the poem, Lady Margaret Scott of Buccleuch, the "Flower of Teviot" is beloved by Baron Henry of Cranstown an ally of the...
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection Vol. 001 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Collection Vol. 001 - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Single author
A collection to celebrate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's 200th birthday, on 27th February, 2007....
Poems by Edward Thomas - Edward Thomas
Poems by Edward Thomas - Edward Thomas
- Author: Edward Thomas
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Born in 1878, Thomas published his first book when he was 18. Having married while still at university, he supported his family by writing articles and books, some in the form of what we might call slow travel writing, compiled on walks throughout...
Tortoises - D. H. Lawrence
Tortoises - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Single author
Tortoises is a collection of six poems by D.H. Lawrence inspired by his observation of tortoises going about their business, wild in the landscape of his home. They reveal something about tortoises, about the man watching them, and perhaps about the...
The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1 - Wallace Stevens
The Collected Public Domain Poems of Wallace Stevens, Volume 1 - Wallace Stevens
- Author: Wallace Stevens
- Genre: Single author
A collection of Wallace Stevens poems written before 1923. Stevens trained to be a lawyer. Within eleven years after this series of poems were written, he was vice-president at the Hartford Accident and Indemnity Company in Connecticut. He continued...
A Spring Harvest - Geoffrey Bache SMITH
A Spring Harvest - Geoffrey Bache SMITH
- Author: Geoffrey Bache SMITH
- Genre: Single author
G.B. Smith is best known for his close friendship with J.R.R. Tolkien, who would go on to write the fantasy epic The Lord of the Rings. He was a talented poet and attended Oxford. In 1915, he fought for England in World War I, and died of wounds...
The Divine Companion (Version 2) - James Allen
The Divine Companion (Version 2) - James Allen
- Author: James Allen
- Genre: Single author / Self-Help
It cannot be said of this book that James Allen wrote it at any particular time or in any one year, for he was engaged in it over many years and those who have eyes to see and hearts to understand will find in its pages the spiritual history of his...
Poems of Passion - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poems of Passion - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Single author
A collection of love poems. (Summary by Joy Chan)...
The Burning Wheel - Aldous Huxley
The Burning Wheel - Aldous Huxley
- Author: Aldous Huxley
- Genre: Single author
Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. The Burning Wheel is his first work, a collection of thirty poems that pay homage in style to poets who wrote in the Romantic or the French...
Selected Poems of Francis Thompson - Francis THOMPSON
Selected Poems of Francis Thompson - Francis THOMPSON
- Author: Francis THOMPSON
- Genre: Single author
Francis Thompson, an English poet and author, is best known for his poem "Hound of Heaven," included in this selection of his poems. After submitting some poems to the magazine "Merrie England," the editors, Wilfrid and Alice Meynell, became his...
The Wild Swans at Coole (Version 2) - William Butler Yeats
The Wild Swans at Coole (Version 2) - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poems from the mid-career of this renowned Irish poet, the title poem referring to the estate of his friend and mentor, Lady Gregory. The poems display Yeats' use of symbols (cat, hare, moon, etc), his attachment to the supernatural...
Lancashire Dialogues - John Byrom
Lancashire Dialogues - John Byrom
- Author: John Byrom
- Genre: Single author
A scion of the Byroms of Byrom Hall in Lowton, Lancashire, John Byrom was born and lived in Manchester and Salford for much of his life. Educated at Cambridge, Byrom become a member of the Royal Society and a leading poet of his day. In addition to...
Renascence: A Book of Verse - Walter Crane
Renascence: A Book of Verse - Walter Crane
- Author: Walter Crane
- Genre: Single author
Walter Crane is better known as an artist and illustrator of childrenβs books. His illustrations defined a whole genre which influenced the field for many years. He was also involved in various socialist causes and leant his artistic talent to many...
Sonnets - Constance Naden
Sonnets - Constance Naden
- Author: Constance Naden
- Genre: Single author / Sonnets
Naden's sonnets have topics as diverse as astronomy, classical mythology and Shakespeare's birthplace. This collection is taken from Naden's complete poems, and whether listeners enjoy French history or the natural world, there are subjects to...
Wilderness Songs - Grace H. Conkling
Wilderness Songs - Grace H. Conkling
- Author: Grace H. Conkling
- Genre: Single author
This second volume of verse by Grace Hazard Conkling -- American poet, author and musician -- ranges in theme from close observations of the natural world to the loss and desolation of World War I. Having taught English for 34 years at Smith...
The New Life (La vita nuova) - Dante ALIGHIERI
The New Life (La vita nuova) - Dante ALIGHIERI
- Author: Dante ALIGHIERI
- Genre: Romance / Single author / Lyric
One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and tells the story of his youthful love for Beatrice. The prose creates the illusion of narrative continuity...
Poems - George Santayana
Poems - George Santayana
- Author: George Santayana
- Genre: Single author
George Santayana was born in Spain, educated in Boston and taught at Harvard before returning to Europe to spend the last forty years of his life writing. He is primarily known as a philosopher, his five-volume The Life of Reason being his magnus...
A Song of the Guns - Gilbert FRANKAU
A Song of the Guns - Gilbert FRANKAU
- Author: Gilbert FRANKAU
- Genre: Single author
"A Song of the Guns was written under what are probably the most remarkable conditions in which a poem has ever been composed. The author, who is now serving in Flanders, was present at the battle of Loos, and during a lull in the fighting--when the...
The Forest - Ben Jonson
The Forest - Ben Jonson
- Author: Ben Jonson
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
The Forest is a short collection of Ben Jonson's poetry. This collection of fifteen poems first appeared in the 1616 first folio of his collected works. (Summary by Sheldon Greaves)...
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses - Andrew Barton Paterson
The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses - Andrew Barton Paterson
- Author: Andrew Barton Paterson
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poems by Australian poet Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson, picturesque glimpses into life in the Bush. From the preface: "A number of these verses are now published for the first time, most of the others were written for and appeared...
Poetry of St John of the Cross - Saint JOHN OF THE CROSS
Poetry of St John of the Cross - Saint JOHN OF THE CROSS
- Author: Saint JOHN OF THE CROSS
- Genre: Single author
The poems of St John of the Cross, with their mystic depth and spiritual ecstasy, stand among the world's great poems of Divine Love in all traditions. St John is one of the Roman Catholic Doctors of the Church, was a reformer of the Carmelite...
New Hampshire - A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes - Robert Frost
New Hampshire - A Poem with Notes and Grace Notes - Robert Frost
- Author: Robert Frost
- Genre: Single author
New Hampshire is a volume of poems written by Robert Frost, for which he received the Pulitzer Prize. The titular poem is the longest, and it has cross-references to 14 of the following poems. These are the "Notes" in the book title. The "Grace...
Chimneysmoke - Christopher Morley
Chimneysmoke - Christopher Morley
- Author: Christopher Morley
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
A collection of short poems on various themes by the author. (Summary by Carmen H)...
The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol 5 - Madison Cawein
The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol 5 - Madison Cawein
- Author: Madison Cawein
- Genre: Single author
This is Volume 5: Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It begins with the long poem Intimations of the Beautiful and falls into three sections: Poems of...
Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Single author
This book contains 2 poetry bundles by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, containing many better- or lesser-known poems. The poems are recorded by a single reader (Foon), with the exception of a few poems that are written as small theatrical plays, which are...
Twenty - Stella Benson
Twenty - Stella Benson
- Author: Stella Benson
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Twenty, Stella Bensonβs first poetry collection, was first published in 1918. It deals with topics such as personal independence, the First World War and Londonβs landscape. (Summary by Newgatenovelist)...
The Queen of the Seven Swords - G. K. Chesterton
The Queen of the Seven Swords - G. K. Chesterton
- Author: G. K. Chesterton
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poems by G.K. Chesterton, centered around the Blessed Virgin Mary. The title is in reference to the seven sorrows of Mary. βAnd thy own soul a sword shall pierce, that, out of many hearts thoughts may be revealed.β (Luke 2:34)...
The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems - James Thomson
The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems - James Thomson
- Author: James Thomson
- Genre: Gothic Fiction / Single author
While primarily known for being pessimistic, the poetry of James Thomson (1834-1882) is also beautiful and psychologically complex. This 1903 edition, varying as it does in selection from the edition of the same name published during his lifetime,...
Boys and Girls - J. W. FOLEY
Boys and Girls - J. W. FOLEY
- Author: J. W. FOLEY
- Genre: Single author
A collection of charming poems by James W. Foley, Poet Laureate of North Dakota where he was also city editor of the Bismarck Tribune. Each poem is written from the point of view of children or about children. (Summary by Larry Wilson)...
Harmonium - Wallace Stevens
Harmonium - Wallace Stevens
- Author: Wallace Stevens
- Genre: Single author
This is the first edition of Stevens's first book, with poetry written between 1914 and 1923. A later edition was printed with the inclusion of additional poems and, somewhat surprisingly, three of the earlier poems omitted. - Summary by KevinS...
Opals - Olive Custance
Opals - Olive Custance
- Author: Olive Custance
- Genre: Single author
At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the "Yellow Book", a notorious British quarterly of the late 1890's, featuring poems, essays, short stories and...
Poems of Nature - Henry David Thoreau
Poems of Nature - Henry David Thoreau
- Author: Henry David Thoreau
- Genre: Single author
The fifty poems here brought together under the title βPoems of Natureβ are perhaps two-thirds of those which Thoreau preserved. Many of them were printed by him, in whole or in part, among his early contributions to Emersonβs Dial, or in his own...
Two Poems - Henry Rutgers Conger
Two Poems - Henry Rutgers Conger
- Author: Henry Rutgers Conger
- Genre: Single author
These inspiring tributes to Williams College and its graduates were written by Henry Rutgers Conger while still a Williams student. In each of these poems we experience Conger's deep expressions of camaraderie, his devotion and gratitude to his alma...