Single Author Collections
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, &…
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
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…
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…
An Alphabet of History (Version 2)
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Wilbur D. Nesbit
These witty, engaging and amusing poetic descriptions of the lives of prominent people are not only a joy to read, but are a quick and easy …
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…
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
Sonnets from Hafez and Other Verses
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Elizabeth Bridges Daryush and Hafez
Elizabeth Bridges (at the time of this book's publication--later Elizabeth Bridges Dayrush) was a turn-of-the-century English poet who marri…
The Pale Woman
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Sara Bard Field
Sara Bard Field was a poet from Ohio who spent most of her life in California. She was a suffragist, a Christian socialist, a Georgist and a…
West-Running Brook
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Robert Frost
A collection of 38 of Robert Frost's early poems apparently compiled in 1923 but not published until 1928. This was not Frost's most popular…