Single Author Collections
A Tree with a Bird in it
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Margaret Widdemer
Tree with a Bird in it: a symposium of contemporary American poets on being shown a pear-tree on which sat a grackle is a collection of poem…
Canada and Other Poems
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Thomas Frederick Young
From the author's preface:I wished to do something for my country, and chose this method of doing it. The literature of this country is in i…
The Brook - Break, Break, Break - Sweet and Low - and The Eagle
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
This is Tennyson at his best. This is Tennyson, the master poet at his most descriptive, his most insightful, his most enlightening. This se…
Sea Drift from Leaves of Grass
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Walt Whitman
Sea Drift is a set of 11 poems which make up part of Walt Whitman's larger collection Leaves of Grass.The poems were inspired by Whitman's m…
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' …
The Prelude, Version 2
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William Wordsworth
Wordsworth's celebrated poetic summary of his creative life and development, from childhood to old age, in which he examines his motives, in…
Winter Evening Tales
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Amelia E. Barr
This 1896 collection contains 17 short, Christian-oriented stories. “In these ‘Winter Evening Tales,’ Mrs. Barr has spread before her reader…
The Revelation
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Coventry Patmore
Coventry Kersey Dighton Patmore was an English poet and critic best known for The Angel in the House, his narrative poem about an ideal happ…
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…
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 …
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…
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…
Rain and Roses
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Jeannette Fraser Henshall
One reviewer describes these poems as "dainty." Each reflect a delicacy of feeling and sentiment of home, love and nature. Jeanne…
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, …
The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses (Version 2)
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Robert W. Service
This collection deals with wanderlust in general but the bulk of the poems are based on Service’s time in the Yukon. He captures the excitem…
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…
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…
Sea Garden (Version 2)
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Hilda Doolittle
The first of H.D.'s book of poetry, Sea Garden contains some striking and lovely Imagist compositions. I have recorded the poems as a single…
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…
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, &…