Single Author Collections
Cobwebs from a Library Corner
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John Kendrick Bangs
This is a book of 57 sections divided into 2 parts. The first part is comprised of 26 poems & the second part concludes with 31 assorted…
Bib Ballads
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Ring Lardner
Ring Lardner is a typical parent when his first child is born, full of wonder and the rest of the usual emotions as he watches his little so…
A Song of the Guns
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Gilbert Frankau
"A Song of the Guns was written under what are probably the most remarkable conditions in which a poem has ever been composed. The auth…
Verses
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Hilaire Belloc
A collection of poetry by Hilaire Belloc ranging from religious verses to drinking songs. - Summary by Larry Wilson
In the Net of the Stars
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F. S. Flint
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…
Verses Popular And Humorous (Version 2)
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Henry Lawson
Verses, Popular and Humorous (1900) was the second collection of poems by Australian poet Henry Lawson. It features some of the poet's earli…
Rhyme? And Reason? (Version 2)
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Lewis Carroll
An 1883 selection of Lewis Carroll's satirical and comic verse. The collection ranges from the well-known and well-loved The Hunting Of The …
Harlem Shadows
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Claude Mckay
An award winning Jamaican poet who writes passionately about his birth home and his adopted home, USA. Claude McKay vividly describes family…
A Child's Garden of Verses (Version 4)
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child's Garden of Verses is one of the most popular and loved collections of children’s verse of the 19th century…
The Monster and Other Stories
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Stephen Crane
From the celebrated author of the Red Badge of Courage comes this final collection of stories released in Crane's lifetime. These stories of…
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - version 2
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E. Nesbit and William Shakespeare
Adaptations of Shakespearian plays for young readers. - Summary by ShrimpPhish
Cottage Poems
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Patrick Brontë
Patrick Brontë (father of the famous Brontë sisters, Charlotte, Emily and Anna) is mainly remembered as a father, reverend and tea…
Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches
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Maurice Baring
In this urbane collection of short stories by Maurice Baring, characters ranging from legendary figures to schoolboys find themselves in ste…
The Wind Among the Reeds (Version 2)
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William Butler Yeats
The Wind Among the Reeds was first published in 1899 and features short, personal lyrics on subjects such as Irish legends and personal rela…
The Black Panther
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John Hall Wheelock
John Hall Wheelock is an American poet who during his student years at Harvard University was editor-in-chief of The Harvard Monthly, and be…
Stray Pebbles From The Shores Of Thought
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Elizabeth Porter Gould
A collection of poetry by the Boston poetess. Sections are nature, love, miscellaneous, sonnets and 'for my nieces and nephews'. - Summary b…
English Stornelli
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Augusta Webster
In this sequence Augusta Webster experimented with eight-line verses grouped thematically by the seasons of the year. These poems also explo…
Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
Here is a bitterly sarcastic poem wherein a jilted Lord Byron spits out his distain for his estranged wife, Lady Byron, laying a curse upon …
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
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Robert W. Service
Robert Service was born in Lancashire, England, but at age 21 moved to Canada and eventually ended up in the Yukon during the gold rush. Hi…