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By: Olive Tilford Dargan (1869-1968) | |
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Path Flower and Other Verses |
By: Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774) | |
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The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith |
By: Oliver Herford (1863-1935) | |
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Kitten's Garden of Verses
The Kitten's Garden of Verses is a book of short poetry, modeled after Robert Louis Stevenson's A Child's Garden of Verses. Of course, the poems in this book are intended for kittens rather than children! | |
An Alphabet of Celebrities | |
The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten | |
The Smoker's Year Book |
By: Oliver Wendell Holmes | |
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The One-Hoss Shay
This is a small collection of whimsical poems by the American physician and author Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. "The Deacon's Masterpiece" describes the "logical" outcome of building an object (in this case, a two-wheeled carriage called a shay) that has no weak points. The economic term "one hoss shay," referring to a certain model of depreciation, derives its name from this poem. "How the Old Horse Won the Bet" is a lighthearted look at a horse race. Finally, "The Broomstick Train" is a wonderfully Halloween-y explanation of how an electric tram really works. | |
The Professor at the Breakfast-Table | |
The Poet at the Breakfast-Table | |
Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle as She Saw it from the Belfry |
By: Osborn H. Oldroyd (1842-1930) | |
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The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President |
By: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) | |
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The Fisherman and His Soul
”The Fisherman and his Soul” is a fairy tale first published in November of 1891 in Wilde’s “A House of Pomegranates”. It tells of a fisherman who nets and falls in love with a mermaid. But to be with her he must shed his soul, which goes off to have adventures of its own. Will forbidden love endure? |
By: Owen Meredith (1831-1891) | |
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Lucile |
By: Owen Seaman (1861-1936) | |
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The Battle of the Bays |
By: Palmer Cox (1840-1924) | |
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Another Brownie Book
Brownies, like fairies and goblins, are imaginary little sprites, who are supposed to delight in harmless pranks and helpful deeds. They work and sport while weary households sleep, and never allow themselves to be seen by mortal eyes. Summary by Palmer Cox |
By: Patrick Brontë (1777-1861) | |
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Cottage Poems |
By: Paul Verlaine (1844-1896) | |
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Poems of Paul Verlaine |
By: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822) | |
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A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays | |
The Daemon of the World | |
The Witch of Atlas | |
Peter Bell the Third |
By: Philip Sidney (1554-1586) | |
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A Defence of Poesie and Poems |
By: Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784) | |
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Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral
Phillis Wheatley was the first African-American to publish a book of poetry in 1773. Born in West Africa, she was sold into slavery at age seven, and bought by a wealthy Massachusetts family who taught her to read and write. Her extraordinary literary gifts led to the publication of her "Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral," and to her eventual emancipation by her owners. Although some of the poems demonstrate an apparent acceptance of the racist values of the white slave-owning classes (which viewed Africans as savage), Wheatley's considerable talents simultaneously contradicted these stereotypes. |
By: Plato (428-347) | |
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The Symposium
The Symposium (Ancient Greek: Συμπόσιον) is a philosophical book written by Plato sometime after 385 BCE. On one level the book deals with the genealogy, nature and purpose of love, on another level the book deals with the topic of knowledge, specifically how does one know what one knows. The topic of love is taken up in the form of a group of speeches, given by a group of men at a symposium or a wine drinking party at the house of the tragedian Agathon at Athens. Plato constructed the Symposium as a story within a story within a story... |
By: Publius Vergilius Maro (70 BC - 19 AD) | |
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The Aeneid
The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy, where he became the ancestor of the Romans. The first six of the poem’s twelve books tell the story of Aeneas’ wanderings from Troy to Italy, and the poem’s second half treats the Trojans’ ultimately victorious war upon the Latins, under whose name Aeneas and his Trojan followers are destined to be subsumed. The poem was commissioned from Vergil by the Emperor Augustus to glorify Rome... | |
The Eclogues
This book of poems, written between 42 en 39 BC, was a bestseller in ancient Rome, and still holds a fascination today. Held to be divinely inspired not only by the Romans themselves, but by the Medieval Catholic church, The Eclogues is one of the most beloved collections of Latin short poetry. |
By: R. C. Lehmann (1856-1929) | |
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The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch |
By: R. F. Murray (1863-1894) | |
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Wasted Day
Robert Fuller Murray was a Victorian poet. Although born in the United States, Murray lived most of his life in the United Kingdom, most notably in St Andrews, Scotland. He wrote two books of poetry and was published occasionally in periodicals. |
By: R. M. | |
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Caw! Caw! Or, The Chronicle of Crows, A Tale of the Spring-time |
By: Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941) | |
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Gitanjali
Gitanjali is a collection of 103 poems in English, largely translations by the Bengali poet Rabindranath Tagore. This volume became very famous in the West, and was widely translated into other languages. In England a slender volume was published in 1913, with an exhilarating preface by W. B. Yeats. In the same year, Rabindranath became the first non-European to win the Nobel prize. | |
Stray Birds | |
First Jasmines
Rabindranath Tagore, was a Bengali polymath who reshaped Bengali literature and music, as well as Indian art with Contextual Modernism in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Author of Gitanjali and its "profoundly sensitive, fresh and beautiful verse", he became the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1913. In translation his poetry was viewed as spiritual and mercurial; however, his "elegant prose and magical poetry" remain largely unknown outside Bengal. Tagore introduced new prose and verse forms and the use of colloquial language into Bengali literature, thereby freeing it from traditional models based on classical Sanskrit... |