Lyric
Selected Poems
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Elizabeth Siddal
Elizabeth Siddal was a British poet, artist and model. Her poems were not published in a single volume in her lifetime; this collection brin…
Love Songs (Version 2)
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Sara Teasdale
With classical, lyrical tones, and frequently feminist-influenced themes, Sara Teasdale’s Love Songs established her as one of the leading w…
Four Hymns
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Edmund Spenser
Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heav…
Orchids
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Theodore Wratislaw
Theodore Wratislaw was a fin de siècle poet and a less famous Decadent author than some of his contemporaries.This short collection o…
Six lyrics from the Ruthenian of Taras Shevchenko, also The Song of the Merchan…
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Mikhail Yurevich Lermontov
Poetry by two radical poets, born in the same year, who suffered exile and punishment under the Tsarist Russian empire. Taras Shevchenko is …
Sagas of Vaster Britain
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William Wilfred Campbell
A collection of poems by the Canadian poet William Wilfred Campbell addressing themes of National Identity, Imperialism and the Divinity of …
Selection from Poems
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Alexander Pushkin
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is often called "the father of Russian literature". He was the first great poet to write in Russian …
The Lilt of Life
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Zora Cross
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 o…
The Flowers of Evil
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Charles Baudelaire and James Huneker
Charles Baudelaire was a French poet whose work is described as combining an exoticism inherited from the Romantics with the Realism of othe…
Love Poems
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F. W. Harvey
F. W. Harvey was an English poet, broadcaster and solicitor. These poems, taken from his 1921 collection Farewell, embody his love of nature…
Machine-Room Chants
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Tom Maguire
Tom Maguire was a trade union organiser from Yorkshire of Irish descent whose poetry reflects his socialist beliefs. This volume was publish…
Stars of the Desert
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Laurence Hope
Laurence Hope was the nom de plume of Adela Florence Nicolson, a British poet who wrote verses inspired by India, where she lived. This coll…
Ravenna and Other Poems
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Oscar Wilde
Oscar Wilde's poem Ravenna won the prestigious Newdigate Prize for Poetry at Oxford University. It was recited by the author in the Sheldoni…
Poems
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Elinor Jenkins
Elinor Jenkins was a British poet whose published work focuses largely on the First World War. This volume, based on her collection publishe…
Anthology of Massachusetts Poets
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William Stanley Braithwaite
Poet and editor of many anthologies, William Stanley Braithwaite, gathers a collection of poems from well known and lesser known poets from …
Poems of the Past and the Present
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Thomas Hardy
Poems of the Past and the Present is the second collection of poems by Thomas Hardy published in 1901. It is divided into 5 sections, War Po…
The Prisoner of Chillon
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
Lord Byron visited the Castle of Chillon on Lake Geneva in Switzerland in 1816 and was intrigued by the legend of Francis Bonnivard who was …
Poems Concerning the Slave Trade
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Robert Southey
Robert Southey, a future Poet Laureate, was born in Bristol, one of the principal ports in England for the slave trade. He wrote these poems…
The Hoofs of Pegasus
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Maria Letitia Stockett
Maria Letitia Stockett was a highly respected English teacher in Baltimore, Maryland, but also well-known as an author. In addition to her …
Songs of Travel and Other Verses
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Robert Louis Stevenson
A collection of short verses by the Scottish poet and novelist Robert Louis Stevenson reflecting his great love of travel and adventure from…