Lyric
Twenty
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Stella Benson
Twenty, Stella Benson’s first poetry collection, was first published in 1918. It deals with topics such as personal independence, the First …
Later Poems
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Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell was a British poet and suffragist. This collection was published in 1902 and explores the author’s Catholic faith as well as t…
Selected Poems
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was a pre-eminent poet of the Victorian period in the United Kingdom. This selection of poems includes some of he…
Love Songs
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning shared one of the great literary and romantic marriages of the 19th century, eloping to Italy to escap…
Poems of Pilgrimage
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Thomas Hardy
A short collection of poems by Thomas Hardy describing his feelings when visiting various places of historic interest in Italy and Switzerla…
California at Christmas Tide
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Ella M. Sexton
Ten short poems about Christmas in California - Summary by Larry Wilson
Sammlung deutscher Gedichte 042
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Various
Dies ist ein offenes Projekt für deutsche Lyrik: jedes Gedicht, das in der Public Domain (gemeinfrei) ist, wird in die Lyrik-Sammlung a…
Poems
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John Buchan
John Buchan was a Scottish writer, poet and diplomat who became Governer General of Canada. Best known for his novels (The Thirty-Nine Steps…
Love Poems
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D. H. Lawrence
"Love Poems and Others" was D. H. Lawrence's first book of poetry published in 1913.(Summary by Alan Mapstone)
Underwoods (Book 1)
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and poet best known for his children's adventure stories. Born in Edinburgh he travelled exte…
The Negro's Complaint and Other Poems
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William Cowper
William Cowper was an English poet and Anglican hymn writer. He was a forerunner of the Romantic movement in English poetry and strongly inf…
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point and Selected Other Poems
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in County Durham, England in 1806. From the age of 15 she suffered a series of debilitating illnesses. H…
Astrophel and Other Poems
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
A collection of poems by the English poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, first published in 1904 and dedicated to the artist and designer Willi…
The Pale Woman
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Sara Bard Field
Sara Bard Field was a poet from Ohio who spent most of her life in California. She was a suffragist, a Christian socialist, a Georgist and a…
Lyrics and Legends of Christmas-Tide
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Clinton Scollard
American author and poet, Clinton Scollard, presents a charming collection of poetry to brighten the Christmas season. - Summary by Larry Wi…
Star Dust
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Jeannette Fraser Henshall
This is a companion volume to Henshall's book "Rain and Roses." These are short poems of sentiment, romance and spirituality. - S…
Lyric Poems
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Robert Southey
Robert Southey was born in Bristol in England in 1774 and appointed Poet Laurete in 1813, a post he grew to dislike. He was an Oxford contem…
The New Joan and Other Poems
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Katherine Hale
Katherine Hale is the pen name of Amelia Beers Warnock Garvin, a Canadian poet and literary critic. This volume is one of her collections w…
A Spray of Lilac, and Other Poems and Songs
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Marie Hedderwick Browne
Marie Hedderwick-Browne was born in Ireland, but spent her formative years in Glasgow, Scotland, where her father, John Hedderwick, was a pr…
New Poems (Version 2)
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D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence's poetry changed stylistically during the First World War when, influenced by Walt Whitman, he began to write free verse. He …