Lyric
On a Grey Thread
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…
Endymion
Endymion is a poem by John Keats first published in 1818. Keats based the poem on the Greek myth of Endymion, the shepherd beloved of the mo…
Selected Poems
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
With classical, lyrical tones, and frequently feminist-influenced themes, Sara Teasdale’s Love Songs established her as one of the leading w…
Four Hymns
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…
Der Weltfreund
»Mein einziger Wunsch ist, dir, o Mensch, verwandt zu sein!« (aus dem Gedicht "An den Leser")Dieses könnte als Mo…
Some Verses
Theodore Wratislaw was a fin de siècle poet and a less famous Decadent author than some of his contemporaries.This short collection o…
Morgenrot! Klabund!
Klabund (eigentlich Alfred Georg Hermann „Fredi“ Henschke) legte mit seinem ersten Gedichtband den gelungener Auftakt zu einer außerge…
Six lyrics from the Ruthenian of Taras Shevchenko
Poetry by two radical poets, born in the same year, who suffered exile and punishment under the Tsarist Russian empire. Taras Shevchenko is …
Orchids
Theodore Wratislaw was a fin de siècle poet and a less famous Decadent author than some of his contemporaries.This short collection o…
Sagas of Vaster Britain
A collection of poems by the Canadian poet William Wilfred Campbell addressing themes of National Identity, Imperialism and the Divinity of …
Die eiserne Brücke
Im ersten Teil (Das grüne Ufer; Gedichte 1-30) schreibt Paul Zech noch traditionelle Naturlyrik. Durch Liebeslyrik mit einem Hauch Erot…
Die gottlosen Jahre
Alfred Wolfenstein trat als expressionistischer Lyriker zum ersten Mal mit einem Gedicht in der Zeitschrift „Die Aktion“ in Erscheinung. Mit…
Selection from Poems
Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin is often called "the father of Russian literature". He was the first great poet to write in Russian …
Weib und Welt
Richard Dehmel macht in seinen Gedichten immer wieder sinnlich-erotische Anspielungen. Er thematisiert oft Lust und Abschiedsschmerz in verk…
The Flowers of Evil
Charles Baudelaire was a French poet whose work is described as combining an exoticism inherited from the Romantics with the Realism of othe…
The Lilt of Life
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…
Gesammelte Gedichte
Hedwig Lachmanns Gedichte sind in der Form eher konventionell; sie entwickeln sich von "braven" Gefühlsgedichten hin zu meinu…
Helle Nacht
Diesen Gedichtband hat Emmy Hennings ihrem zweiten Mann, Hugo Ball, gewidmet.Nachdem sie sich vom Dadaismus abgewand hat, setzt sich Emmy He…
Eva
Bruno Ertler teilt seinen Gedichtband nach dem Buchsegen (1) in drei Abschnitte:Eva (2-27) – hier geht es um gegenseitige, reine Liebe und d…