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Sonnets - Cordelia Ray
Sonnets - Cordelia Ray
- Author: Cordelia Ray
- Genre: Single author / Sonnets
Cordelia Ray was a Black author and teacher. This volume contains 12 of her poems and was first published in 1893. - Summary by Newgatenovelist...
Verses - Hilaire Belloc
Verses - Hilaire Belloc
- Author: Hilaire Belloc
- Genre: Single author
A collection of poetry by Hilaire Belloc ranging from religious verses to drinking songs. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Version 2) - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins (Version 2) - Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Author: Gerard Manley Hopkins
- Genre: Single author
Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–1889) was one of the most innovative of English Victorian poets, best known now for his vivid and original imagery of the natural world in verses such as “The Windhover” and “Pied Beauty”. Hopkins was a master of...
Chants for Socialists - William Morris
Chants for Socialists - William Morris
- Author: William Morris
- Genre: Single author
As well as being influential in the Arts and Crafts Movement and writing numerous poems and novels, William Morris was deeply involved in political reform. These poems, the earliest of which were first collected in 1885, reflect his socialist...
Æsop in Rhyme, with Some Originals - Jefferys Taylor
Æsop in Rhyme, with Some Originals - Jefferys Taylor
- Author: Jefferys Taylor
- Genre: Single author
Jefferys Taylor was born in 1792 in Suffolk, England. He became apprenticed to his father who was an engraver and invented a special ruling machine for engravers but went on to emulate his mother who was a children's writer. His books include...
Verses of a V. A. D. - Vera Brittain
Verses of a V. A. D. - Vera Brittain
- Author: Vera Brittain
- Genre: Single author
This is a collection of poems by Vera M. Brittain, an Englishwoman, who served in World War I as a member of the Voluntary Aid Detachment (VAD). She worked as a nurse during the war. These poems are based on her wartime experiences. - Summary by...
The Five Nations Vol II - Rudyard Kipling
The Five Nations Vol II - 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...
The Testaments of John Davidson - John Davidson
The Testaments of John Davidson - John Davidson
- Author: John Davidson
- Genre: Single author
The oft-maligned Testaments of John Davidson work as a sublime, psychopathic post-Nietzchean (Zarathustra was merely Davidson's springboard into a deeper transcendence) prologue to his impending suicide in 1909. After a warmly receptive life of...
Lake Lyrics and Other Poems - William Wilfred Campbell
Lake Lyrics and Other Poems - William Wilfred Campbell
- Author: William Wilfred Campbell
- Genre: Poetry / Single author
A Collection of poems by the Canadian poet William Wilfred Campbell most of which describe the natural beauty of the Great Lakes region of Ontario. These poems reflect Campbell's deep love of Nature as God's Creation. (Summary by Alan Mapstone)...
The Sunken Garden and Other Poems - Walter De la Mare
The Sunken Garden and Other Poems - Walter De la Mare
- Author: Walter De la Mare
- Genre: Single author
This fantastic adventure into the realms of the imagination is a superb example of the incomparable skill of poet Walter de la Mare. In this collection the poet explores the intersection of reality and fantasy within the context of an...
In a Belgian Garden and Other Poems - Frank Oliver Call
In a Belgian Garden and Other Poems - Frank Oliver Call
- Author: Frank Oliver Call
- Genre: Single author
These magnificent poems written by a lover of the natural splendor of untrodden lands are both thrilling and exhilarating. Visions and observations of the wonders of creation are gradually unlocked and elegantly illustrated in ways hitherto...
The Black Panther - John Hall Wheelock
The Black Panther - John Hall Wheelock
- Author: John Hall Wheelock
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
John Hall Wheelock is an American poet who during his student years at Harvard University was editor-in-chief of The Harvard Monthly, and began to publish his first poems. He later worked for publisher Charles Sribner and Sons finally becoming...
Poems - Duncan M. Matheson
Poems - Duncan M. Matheson
- Author: Duncan M. Matheson
- Genre: Single author
Poet Duncan M. Matheson lived in troubled times. These were times of World War I and its accompanying carnage, privation and pervasive adversity. Then to add to this there was the explosion - the December 1917 Halifax explosion - the Canadian...
Heart of Spring - Shaw Neilson
Heart of Spring - Shaw Neilson
- Author: Shaw Neilson
- Genre: Single author
John Shaw Neilson was born at Penola, South Australia in 1872, the son of a farmer and contractor who removed to Victoria when Neilson was nine years of age. The boy had little schooling and early went to work in the hard way of the Bush. His poems...
Candle-Lightin' Time - Paul Laurence Dunbar
Candle-Lightin' Time - Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Author: Paul Laurence Dunbar
- Genre: Poetry / Single author / Free Verse
Poetry about African American Southern life - Summary by Denise Ray...
Poems - Lady Jane Francesca Wilde
Poems - Lady Jane Francesca Wilde
- Author: Lady Jane Francesca Wilde
- Genre: Single author
Jane Wilde, the mother of Oscar Wilde, was an Irish poet who wrote under the pen name Speranza. She was politically active as an Irish nationalist, a passion which may be seen in her writing. Poems is a collection of her poetic works. (Summary by...
The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe
The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Edgar Allan Poe
- Author: Edgar Allan Poe
- Genre: Anthologies / Single author
In placing before the public this collection of Edgar Poe's poetical works, it is requisite to point out in what respects it differs from, and is superior to, the numerous collections which have preceded it. Until recently, all editions, whether...
Rainbows - Olive Custance
Rainbows - 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...
The Voices of the Rivers - Nina Ruth Davis Salaman
The Voices of the Rivers - Nina Ruth Davis Salaman
- Author: Nina Ruth Davis Salaman
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Nina Salaman was a noted scholar, translator and columnist. As well as translating medieval Hebrew poetry, she was a poet in her own right. This collection, first published in 1910, shows her remarkable grace. ( Newgatenovelist)...
Greetings from Longfellow - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Greetings from Longfellow - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Author: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
- Genre: Single author
This is a wonderful selection of six of the greatest works from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, unquestionably one of the world's most celebrated poets. Despite its small size, the book covers a wide spectrum of the poet's thoughts and ideas, from those...
The Lilt of Life - Zora Cross
The Lilt of Life - Zora Cross
- Author: Zora Cross
- Genre: Single author / Lyric / Sonnets
Published in 1918, Zora Cross’s book of poems, The Lilt of Life, was her third book of verse, and, like her earlier works, largely focused on her experiences of love, erotic entanglements (notably from a woman’s point of view), and motherhood. Many...
For Eager Lovers - Genevieve Taggard
For Eager Lovers - Genevieve Taggard
- Author: Genevieve Taggard
- Genre: Single author
Genevieve Taggard was an American poet, teacher and socialist. This collection was first published in 1922 and deals with topics such as personal relationships, nature and independence. - Summary by Newgatenovelist...
Barrack-Room Ballads - Rudyard Kipling
Barrack-Room Ballads - Rudyard Kipling
- Author: Rudyard Kipling
- Genre: Single author
Barrack-Room Ballads is a collection of poems by Rudyard Kipling which describe life in the British Army, particularly in India, in his time. The poems are written in the voice and language of soldiers of that time. The collection includes some of...
Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2) - Lewis Carroll
Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2) - Lewis Carroll
- Author: Lewis Carroll
- Genre: Single author
An 1883 selection of Lewis Carroll's satirical and comic verse. The collection ranges from the well-known and well-loved The Hunting Of The Snark, to lesser-known gems such as Phantasmagoria, a tale of the difficulties encountered by an...
At Dawn And Dusk - Victor DALEY
At Dawn And Dusk - 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...
Violets And Other Tales - Alice Dunbar Nelson
Violets And Other Tales - Alice Dunbar Nelson
- Author: Alice Dunbar Nelson
- Genre: Culture & Heritage Fiction / Single author / Single Author Collections
This is a collection of the author's short stories and poems where she writes about the collective experience of African American women, and African Americans in general. But she is sharpest when she pushes back against the notion that women must...
Over Here and Over There - Harry Zody
Over Here and Over There - Harry Zody
- Author: Harry Zody
- Genre: Single author / War & Military
In publishing this book I have no intention whatsoever to offer a work of great literary value. As such it would undoubtedly be a failure, because, being of a non-English-speaking race, and only having been in this country a comparatively short time...
How Salvator Won and Other Recitations - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
How Salvator Won and Other Recitations - Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Author: Ella Wheeler Wilcox
- Genre: Single author
Ella Wheeler Wilcox is an American poet known for her popular lyrics that capture positive and uplifting themes. This volume is quite diverse, including the concluding piece that is read as a little play. Her preface to expresses the unique...
Morna Lee, and Other Poems - Mary Hannay FOOTT
Morna Lee, and Other Poems - Mary Hannay FOOTT
- Author: Mary Hannay FOOTT
- Genre: Single author
Mary Hannay Foott (pen name, La Quenouille) was a Scottish-born Australian poet and editor. She is well remembered for a bush-ballad poem, "Where the Pelican Builds". - Summary by Wikipedia...
The Principles of the Christian Religion Expressed in Plain and Easy Verse - Philip Doddridge
The Principles of the Christian Religion Expressed in Plain and Easy Verse - Philip Doddridge
- Author: Philip Doddridge
- Genre: Single author
The little verses now before the reader were written at the desire of my most worthy and honoured friend, the Reverend Mr. Clark of St. Albans, and are published at his request, as what he hopes may, by the divine blessing, do some good in the...
Summer of Love - Joyce KILMER
Summer of Love - Joyce KILMER
- Author: Joyce KILMER
- Genre: Single author
Joyce KIlmer may yet be an obscure poet had he not had his poem, Trees, published in Poetry in 1913. But, this book precedes that, and shows his flowing lyricism and the dripping sentimentality of his earlier work. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
Prufrock and Other Observations - T. S. Eliot
Prufrock and Other Observations - T. S. Eliot
- Author: T. S. Eliot
- Genre: Single author / Free Verse
Prufrock and Other Observations was published in 1917 in a print run of only 500 copies by Egoist Press in London. It features The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, possibly Eliot’s most famous work, a stream-of-consciousness monologue of a man...
The Diwan - Zeb-un-Nissa
The Diwan - Zeb-un-Nissa
- Author: Zeb-un-Nissa
- Genre: Single author
Zeb-un-Nissa was a poet and Mughal princess. This collection includes 50 of her compositions and a dedicatory poem by the translator and was translated in the 20th century. (Summary by Newgatenovelist)...
The Silk-Hat Soldier and Other Poems in War Time - Richard le Gallienne
The Silk-Hat Soldier and Other Poems in War Time - Richard le Gallienne
- Author: Richard le Gallienne
- Genre: Single author
This stirring collection of inspirational war-time poems by the renowned author Richard le Gallienne, offers an insightful examination of a world forced to endure one of the most trying and tragic times in history. In these magnificent poems we...
Cobwebs from a Library Corner - John Kendrick Bangs
Cobwebs from a Library Corner - John Kendrick Bangs
- Author: John Kendrick Bangs
- Genre: Single author
This is a book of 57 sections divided into 2 parts. The first part is comprised of 26 poems & the second part concludes with 31 assorted stories & otherwise. John Kendrick Bangs had been known as a jokester & prankster; was also known to...
The Hoofs of Pegasus - Maria Letitia Stockett
The Hoofs of Pegasus - Maria Letitia Stockett
- Author: Maria Letitia Stockett
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Maria Letitia Stockett was a highly respected English teacher in Baltimore, Maryland, but also well-known as an author. In addition to her poetry she wrote Baltimore: A Not Too Serious History in 1928, and America, First, Fast & Furious . This...
On a Grey Thread - Elsa Gidlow
On a Grey Thread - Elsa Gidlow
- Author: Elsa Gidlow
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
On a Grey Thread was first published in 1923, one of the first books of openly lesbian love poetry to be published in the United States. Her early verse is concise and highly original. (Newgatenovelist)...
Bay: A Book of Poems - D. H. Lawrence
Bay: A Book of Poems - D. H. Lawrence
- Author: D. H. Lawrence
- Genre: Single author
The superb skill and dexterity of D.H. Lawrence, a writer who profoundly influenced the literature of the twentieth century, is very evident in this collection of poems conceived during the years of The Great War. Lawrence, living a semi-nomadic...
The Inn of Dreams - Olive Custance
The Inn of Dreams - 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...
The New Joan and Other Poems - Katherine Hale
The New Joan and Other Poems - Katherine Hale
- Author: Katherine Hale
- Genre: Single author / Lyric
Katherine Hale is the pen name of Amelia Beers Warnock Garvin, a Canadian poet and literary critic. This volume is one of her collections with the background of World War I as a theme, but full of faith and hope. - Summary by Larry Wilson...
