Single Author Collections
Barrack-Room Ballads
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Rudyard Kipling
Barrack-Room Ballads is a collection of poems by Rudyard Kipling which describe life in the British Army, particularly in India, in his time…
Selections from Longfellow
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
These are twelve magnificent poems that convey the brilliant talent of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow at its best. These are poems that speak of…
Goblins and Pagodas
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John Gould Fletcher
John Gould Fletcher (1886 – 1950) is considered by many literary scholars to be among the most innovative twentieth-century poets. He enjoye…
The Voices of the Rivers
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Nina Ruth Davis Salaman
Nina Salaman was a noted scholar, translator and columnist. As well as translating medieval Hebrew poetry, she was a poet in her own right. …
The Georgics: A Poem of the Land
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Virgil
A poem by the Latin poet Virgil, the second of his three known works. "Georgic" means "to work the land," and on such ma…
Once A Week (Version 2)
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A. A. Milne
Once A Week is a collection of short stories and slightly longer vignettes which were written for Milne's solid British Audience, including …
The Reign of King Oberon
Read by Bryn Roberts
Walter Jerrold
In all the annals of Fairyland nothing is more wonderful—and the annals are found in many hundreds of volumes—than that chapter which tells …
A Warning to the Curious and Other Ghost Stories (Version 2)
Read by Peter Yearsley
M. R. James
The fourth collection of ghost stories made by the author, including one written for Queen Victoria (The haunted doll's house). - Summary b…
The Undying One and Other Poems
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Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton
“The Byron of our modern poetesses," was the verdict of Henry Nelson Coleridge, the eldest son of the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, wri…
A Shropshire Lad
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A. E. Housman
A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of sixty-three poems by the English poet Alfred Edward Housman. A Shropshire Lad was first published in 1896 at …
Winter Evening
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Archibald Lampman
Archibald Lampman was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent …
The Garden of Dreams
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Madison Cawein
Madison Cawein from Kentucky, displays a wider range of his poetic dreams, from the bright to the dark. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Poems of Purpose
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This is a volume of poems by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, published in 1919. - Summary by Carolin
The Judgement of Valhalla
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Gilbert Frankau
Gilbert Frankau was a prolific and popular British novelist who wrote both in prose and verse and had fifty works published over a fifty ye…
Selected Poems
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Robert Frost
These are poems selected by the publisher, Henry Holt & Company reprinted from "Mountain Interval" "North of Boston"…
Something Childish and Other Stories
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Katherine Mansfield
This posthumous collection of stories and sketches by the New Zealand modernist author was published the year after her death from tuberculo…
Short Stories for Colored People Both Old and Young
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Silas X. Floyd
Several short stories relating to young African Americans. Summary by kirk202
Precepts in Practice; or, Stories Illustrating the Proverbs
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Charlotte Maria Tucker
Fifteen short stories that are full of morals and wisdom, warmth and comfort, charm and wit—all inspired by the book of Proverbs. Each of th…
India's Love Lyrics
Read by Helen Williford-Lower
Laurence Hope
The poetry of Adela Florence Cory aka Violet Nicolson, is some of the most unique and passionate in the English language. Under the pen name…
My Little Book of Prayer
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Muriel Strode
A number of what we might call epigrams concerning one's will, determination, spirituality, and other foci of interest. - Summary by KevinS