Single Author Collections
Morna Lee, and Other Poems
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Mary Hannay Foott
Mary Hannay Foott (pen name, La Quenouille) was a Scottish-born Australian poet and editor. She is well remembered for a bush-ballad poem, &…
Poems and Ballads (First Series)
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Algernon Charles Swinburne
Swinburne's first collection of poetry, published in 1866, circles around the themes of love, religion (or irreligion) and death. The poems …
Severn and Somme
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Ivor Gurney
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…
The Heart of Happy Hollow (Version 2)
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
Happy Hollow; are you wondering where it is? Wherever Negroes colonise in the cities or villages, north or south, wherever the hod carrier, …
Lucasta
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Richard Lovelace
"Lucasta" is of Latin origin meaning "Pure Light". Besides the dedication of the first poem to his wife, Anne Lovelace, …
Augustan Books of Modern Poetry: Robert Graves
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Robert Graves
Poems from Robert Graves published by the Augustan Books of Poetry. - Summary by KevinS
Selected Poems
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Marion Cummings
Marion Cummings was an American poet and academic. Born in San Jose, she graduated from the University of California and taught at the Unive…
California at Christmas Tide
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Ella M. Sexton
Ten short poems about Christmas in California - Summary by Larry Wilson
Poems of Conformity
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Charles Williams
Charles Williams was one of The Inklings, an Oxford based group of writers which included J.R.R. Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. Although Williams' …
Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War
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Herman Melville
"Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War" is the first book of poems by the American author Herman Melville. Published in 1866, the v…
Poems (Version 2)
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Wilfred Owen
The English poet Wilfred Owen was killed on 4th November 1918 just seven days before the Armistice which ended the First World War. This boo…
The Apology
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Anne Kingsmill Finch
Anne Finch, Countess of Winchilsea, was an English poet, the third child of Sir William Kingsmill of Sydmonton Court and his wife, Anne Hasl…
A Calendar of Sonnets (Version 3)
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Helen Hunt Jackson
Helen Hunt Jackson wrote poetry, nonfiction and fiction and was a popular author in her own time. This sonnet sequence reviews the months of…
Mountain Idylls, and Other Poems
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Alfred Castner King
"The author of this unpretentious volume has long questioned the advisability of adding a book to our already inflated and overloaded l…
For Eager Lovers
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Genevieve Taggard
Genevieve Taggard was an American poet, teacher and socialist. This collection was first published in 1922 and deals with topics such as pe…
Low Tide on Grand Pré: A Book of Lyrics
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Bliss Carman
The first of more than thirty books of poetry by Canadian poet Bliss Carman. "The poems in this volume have been collected with refere…
The Sentimental Song Book
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Julia A. Moore
Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan," is today considered one of the true luminaries of bad poetry. Her verse, with its …
White April
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Harold Vinal
In five section parts, Golden Windows, Sonnets for Weeping, Of Mariners, White Glamour, and Overtones, Harold Vinal writes about deep feeli…
For Your Sweet Sake
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James Ephraim Mcgirt
This work is a collection of lyric poems - Summary by Jim Locke
New Poems
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D. H. Lawrence
This is an exceptional collection of superb and introspectively distinct poems from the pen of master author D. H. Lawrence. Never failing t…