Single Author Collections

The Sin of Monsieur Pettipon, and other humorous tales

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Richard Connell


Collection of short stories originally published in the Saturday Evening Post.

Sonnets from the Portuguese (version 3)

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning


Sonnets from the Portuguese chronicles the deeply personal stages of courtship. (Summary by Newgatenovelist)

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

The Principles of the Christian Religion Expressed in Plain and Easy Verse

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Philip Doddridge


The little verses now before the reader were written at the desire of my most worthy and honoured friend, the Reverend Mr. Clark of St. Alba…

Color

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Countee Cullen


Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…

Familie en kennissen

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Piet Paaltjens


De schrijver François Haverschmidt is het best bekend van zijn dichtbundel ‘Snikken en Grimlachjes’, dat werd gepubliceerd onder het …

Mother and Daughter

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Augusta Webster


Uncompleted at her death, Augusta Webster's posthumously published sonnet sequence Mother and Daughter celebrates the relationship between a…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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…

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 …

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…

The India Wharf

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Sara Teasdale


Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet.

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…

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 …

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