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A Sheaf of Roses - Elizabeth Gordon
A Sheaf of Roses - Elizabeth Gordon
- Author: Elizabeth Gordon
- Genre: Single author
The rose, the flower of love, the flower of life, the floral symbol of all life's occasions whose presence both motivates and adorns indelible life memories is the subject of these wonderful poems. From the pen of poet Elizabeth Gordon the rose...
The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas - Lord Alfred DOUGLAS
The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas - Lord Alfred DOUGLAS
- Author: Lord Alfred DOUGLAS
- Genre: Single author
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of his youth. Douglas was primarily a sonneteer, and this collection features shorter poems about love, hatred,...
The Horses of the Hills and other Verses - Marie E. J. Pitt
The Horses of the Hills and other Verses - Marie E. J. Pitt
- Author: Marie E. J. Pitt
- Genre: Single author
Marie Elizabeth Josephine Pitt (1869–1948) was an Australian poet and socialist activist. Pitt wrote very highly coloured nature poetry, once much anthologised; and also wrote poetry in support of the socialist and labour movements. Marie Pitt was...
Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics - Bliss Carman
Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics - Bliss Carman
- Author: Bliss Carman
- Genre: Single author
The first of more than thirty books of poetry by Canadian poet Bliss Carman. "The poems in this volume have been collected with reference to their similarity of tone. They are variations on a single theme, more or less aptly suggested by the title,...
Lullaby-Land: Songs of Childhood - Eugene Field
Lullaby-Land: Songs of Childhood - Eugene Field
- Author: Eugene Field
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Lullaby-Land: Songs of Childhood is a book of children’s poetry by Eugene Field. Within the poems in this volume you will find some of his well-known works including The Duel, Wynken, Blynken and Nod, and Little Boy Blue. - Summary by SweetHome...
War's Embers - Ivor Gurney
War's Embers - Ivor Gurney
- Author: Ivor Gurney
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
A collection of poems by the Gloucestershire-born English poet Ivor Gurney describing his feelings about the First World War, during which he served on the Western Front and was wounded by a mustard gas attack, and its aftermath. - Summary by Alan...
The Fable of the Bees - Bernard Mandeville
The Fable of the Bees - Bernard Mandeville
- Author: Bernard Mandeville
- Genre: Single author / Political Science
Bernard Mandeville's didactic poem praising the virtues that personal vices bestow on society as a whole, along with several treatises and dialogues explaining and defending it. Mandeville's theories were influential in the development of both the...
Over The Brazier - Robert Graves
Over The Brazier - Robert Graves
- Author: Robert Graves
- Genre: Single author
This book was the first published of Robert Graves' early poetry, from about fourteen to twenty years of age, and published during his time in the trenches in WW1, as a Captain in the Royal Welch Fusiliers. His subsequent friendships with both,...
The Five Nations Vol I - Rudyard Kipling
The Five Nations Vol I - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Single author
Rudyard Kipling was the first English recipient of the Nobel Prize in literature and the youngest at the time to be so rewarded. His children’s stories and poems have been enduring expressions of his times, many tied to India, the country of his...
Verses Popular And Humorous (Version 2) - Henry Lawson
Verses Popular And Humorous (Version 2) - Henry Lawson
- Author: Henry Lawson
- Genre: Single author / Ballads
Verses, Popular and Humorous (1900) was the second collection of poems by Australian poet Henry Lawson. It features some of the poet's earlier major works, including "The Lights of Cobb and Co", "Saint Peter" and "The Grog-An'-Grumble-Steeplechase"....
Silverpoints - John Gray
Silverpoints - John Gray
- Author: John Gray
- Genre: Single author
Silverpoints is the first collection of poems by John Gray. Some saw Gray as a protégé of Oscar Wilde, who agreed to underwrite the publication of Silverpoints. It includes Gray's original poems and his translations from the French of Verlaine,...
Songs by the Sea - Rebecca Ruter Springer
Songs by the Sea - Rebecca Ruter Springer
- Author: Rebecca Ruter Springer
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Best known for her mystical writing, IntraMuros, Rebecca Ruter Springer was also a sensitive poet. This a short volume of her poems celebrating the sea. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
April Twilights and Other Poems - Willa Sibert Cather
April Twilights and Other Poems - Willa Sibert Cather
- Author: Willa Sibert Cather
- Genre: Single author
A selection of thirty-six poems by American writer Willa Cather. (summary by mleigh)...
The West - Francis S. Borton
The West - Francis S. Borton
- Author: Francis S. Borton
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of The West, by Francis Borton. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 30, 2021. ------ This fortnightly poem is from "The Call of California, and other poems of the West" by Francis Borton. It...
Harlem Shadows - Claude McKay
Harlem Shadows - Claude McKay
- Author: Claude McKay
- Genre: Single author
An award winning Jamaican poet who writes passionately about his birth home and his adopted home, USA. Claude McKay vividly describes family life, love, hate, work, and social life. The reader obtains a strong sense of black life through his...
Otherworld: Cadences - F. S. FLINT
Otherworld: Cadences - 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 - Elinor Jenkins
Poems - Elinor Jenkins
- Author: Elinor Jenkins
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Elinor Jenkins was a British poet whose published work focuses largely on the First World War. This volume, based on her collection published in 1915, incorporates 16 later poems and was published posthumously in 1921. (Summary by Newgatenovelist)...
Later Poems - Alice Meynell
Later Poems - Alice Meynell
- Author: Alice Meynell
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Alice Meynell was a British poet and suffragist. This collection was published in 1902 and explores the author’s Catholic faith as well as the natural world. - Summary by Newgatenovelist...
A Tree with a Bird in it - Margaret Widdemer
A Tree with a Bird in it - Margaret Widdemer
- Author: Margaret Widdemer
- Genre: Single author
Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poems based on a bird in a tree. The author parodies various contemporary poets in 1922 with their versions of a...
Wine and Roses - Victor DALEY
Wine and Roses - Victor DALEY
- Author: Victor DALEY
- Genre: Single author
"Victor Daley, then a happy, wondering Irish lad, drifted out to Australia. His head was full of old tunes and fragments of poetry; his pocket was nearly empty. The sunshine and freedom of Australia delighted him, and, in careless, vagabond fashion...
Machine-Room Chants - Tom Maguire
Machine-Room Chants - Tom Maguire
- Author: Tom Maguire
- Genre: Single author / Lyric / Narratives
Tom Maguire was a trade union organiser from Yorkshire of Irish descent whose poetry reflects his socialist beliefs. This volume was published posthumously in 1895 and includes prefatory commemorative remarks by Keir Hardie and John Bruce Glasier....
Verse and Worse - Harry Graham
Verse and Worse - Harry Graham
- Author: Harry Graham
- Genre: Single author
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted Proverbs, and Ruthless Rhymes for Heartless Homes. - Summary by mleigh...
Oak and Ivy - Paul Laurence Dunbar
Oak and Ivy - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Single author
"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poetry in the so-called Negro dialect, although he also wrote a lot of verse in standard diction. His poetry and prose...
In Excelsis - Lord Alfred DOUGLAS
In Excelsis - Lord Alfred DOUGLAS
- Author: Lord Alfred DOUGLAS
- Genre: Single author
In 1924, Lord Alfred Douglas was sued by Winston Churchill after he alleged that the politician had been part of a Jewish-backed conspiracy to commit various acts of wartime misconduct. Douglas lost the case and was jailed for six months. During his...
The Poems of James Hebblethwaite - James Hebblethwaite
The Poems of James Hebblethwaite - James Hebblethwaite
- Author: James Hebblethwaite
- Genre: Single author
James Hebblethwaite (22 September 1857 – 13 September 1921) was an English-born Australian poet, teacher and clergyman. Hebblethwaite was a man of charming personality. Apparently immersed in a world of dreams, he never allowed himself to neglect...
The Kobzar of the Ukraine - Taras Shevchenko
The Kobzar of the Ukraine - Taras Shevchenko
- Author: Taras Shevchenko
- Genre: Single author
In these poems speaks the struggling soul of a downtrodden people. To our western folk, reared in happier surroundings there is a bitter tang about some of them, somewhat like the taste of olives, to which one must grow accustomed . The Slavonic...
Maud, and Other Poems (Version 2) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Maud, and Other Poems (Version 2) - Alfred, Lord Tennyson
- Author: Alfred Lord Tennyson
- Genre: Single author
Surely everyone knows “Maud”? Isn’t that the Victorian love song, where the man waits by the garden gate for his lover to appear for a secret rendezvous? Well, that may be the song, but Tennyson’s poem is longer and very much darker. It deals not...
Poems of Schiller - 2nd Period - Friedrich Schiller
Poems of Schiller - 2nd Period - Friedrich Schiller
- Author: Friedrich Schiller
- Genre: Single author
Poems by Friedrich Schiller in his second period 1785 onwards. - Summary by Alan Mapstone...
The Garden of Kama - Laurence Hope
The Garden of Kama - Laurence Hope
- Author: Laurence Hope
- Genre: Erotica / Single author / Lyric
Laurence Hope was the nom de plume of Adela Florence Nicolson, a British poet who wrote verses inspired by India, where she lived. This collection, her first, was originally published in 1901. (summary by Newgatenovelist)...
Rupert Brooke - Rupert Brooke
Rupert Brooke - Rupert Brooke
- Author: Rupert Brooke
- Genre: Single author
A number of poems by Rupert Brooke, collected and published in 1925. - Summary by KevinS...
Four Hymns - Edmund Spenser
Four Hymns - Edmund Spenser
- Author: Edmund Spenser
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heavenly" counterparts much later, in response to the dissatisfaction that one of the author's patrons expressed...
Severn and Somme - Ivor Gurney
Severn and Somme - Ivor Gurney
- Author: Ivor Gurney
- Genre: Single author
The English poet Ivor Gurney wrote these poems while serving in the First World War. In them he contrasts the wartime desolation of the area around the River Somme in northern France with the natural beauty of the valley of the River Severn in his...
The Wind Among the Reeds (Version 2) - William Butler Yeats
The Wind Among the Reeds (Version 2) - William Butler Yeats
- Author: William Butler Yeats
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
The Wind Among the Reeds was first published in 1899 and features short, personal lyrics on subjects such as Irish legends and personal relationships. - Summary by Newgatenovelist...
A Happy New Year and Other Verses - Charles Edward de la Poer Beresford
A Happy New Year and Other Verses - Charles Edward de la Poer Beresford
- Author: Charles Edward de la Poer Beresford
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
This is a collection of 27 poems, some seasonal to New Years and Christmas, but others on themes of religion, nature and home. (Summary by Larry Wilson)...
A Child's Garden of Verses (Version 4) - Robert Louis Stevenson
A Child's Garden of Verses (Version 4) - Robert Louis Stevenson
- Author: Robert Louis Stevenson
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child's Garden of Verses is one of the most popular and loved collections of children’s verse of the 19th century. This recital of all 64 poems is designed for children’s listening, especially sections 1–6. - Summary by...
Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture - Palmer Cox
Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture - Palmer Cox
- Author: Palmer Cox
- Genre: Humorous Fiction / Single author
Also known for his "Brownies" books, Canadian humorist Palmer Cox give us a delightful collection of humorous verse and short prose vignettes. From the publisher's preface, "thrice happy is the man who, having seen, can tell the fun; and having...
Rhymes of Childhood - Edgar A. GUEST
Rhymes of Childhood - Edgar A. GUEST
- Author: Edgar A. GUEST
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
Not nursery rhymes, but poems about different scenes of childhood. Poems about Grandpa, Grandma, story time, castor oil, “Wait till your pa comes home!”, and many more. These are sure to evoke nostalgia, lots of smiles, and maybe a couple sighs or...
Color - Countee Cullen
Color - Countee Cullen
- Author: Countee Cullen
- Genre: Single author
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their ancestors were kidnapped and rooted in the white supremacist society where they live. With poems about love,...
XLI Poems - E. E. CUMMINGS
XLI Poems - E. E. CUMMINGS
- Author: E. E. CUMMINGS
- Genre: Single author
A book of 41 poems by E. E. Cummings classified as Songs I-XII [poems 1-12], Chansons Innocentes I-II [poems 13-14], Portraits I-IX [poems 15-23], La Guerre I-II [poems 24-25], Sonnets I-XVI [poems 26-41] - Summary by Scotty Smith...
Introducing Irony (Version 2) - Maxwell Bodenheim
Introducing Irony (Version 2) - Maxwell Bodenheim
- Author: Maxwell Bodenheim
- Genre: Single author / Literary Collections
Maxwell Bodenheim was once known as the King of Greenwich Village Bohemians after moving to New York after being one of the founders of the The Chicago Literary Times. But his life took a downward spiral and he became a panhandler and led a...
