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By: Felix Leigh | |
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London Town |
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: James Elroy Flecker (1884-1915) | |
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Forty-Two Poems
This is a collection of poems by James Elroy Flecker. | |
By: L. P. Hubbard (?-?) | |
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Little Book for a Little Cook
This charming little book compiles together a number of recipes, set out in an easy to understand manner, along with a poetic story about the stages of bread production. This book was produced as a promotional for a flour production company called Pillsbury. This is a "modern" update compared to the original edition of the book. This version has exact oven temperature settings for each recipe included in a preface for the book, along with more precise suggestions for the baking time. The book has been written for children, however I am certain that adults could enjoy the book equally as much as a child would. |
By: Mark Lemon (1809-1870) | |
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How to Make a Man of Consequence
Mark Lemon had a natural talent for journalism and the stage, and, at twenty-six, retired from less congenial business to devote himself to the writing of plays. More than sixty of his melodramas, operettas and comedies were produced in London, whilst at the same time he was contributing to a wide variety of magazines and newspapers, and was founding editor of both Punch and The Field. |
By: Elva S. Smith | |
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Christmas in Legend and Story A Book for Boys and Girls |
By: Sarojini Naidu (1879-1949) | |
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Golden Threshold
Sarojini Naidu was a remarkable woman. Known as the Nightingale of India, she started writing at the age of thirteen and throughout her life composed several volumes of poetry, writing many poems which are still famous to this day. As well as being a poet, Naidu was an activist and politician, campaigning for Indian independence and became the first Indian woman to attain the post of President of the Indian National Congress. This volume contains the beautiful 'Indian Love-Song', as well as many other moving verses... |
By: Joseph Knight (1845-) | |
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Pipe and Pouch The Smoker's Own Book of Poetry |
By: Richard Barnfield (1574-1627) | |
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The Affectionate Shepherd |
By: David Lester Richardson (1801-1865) | |
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Flowers and Flower-Gardens With an Appendix of Practical Instructions and Useful Information Respecting the Anglo-Indian Flower-Garden |
By: Frances Ridley Havergal (1836-1879) | |
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Kept for the Master's Use
The memoirs of Frances Ridley Havergal, a great missionary and hymn writer. | |
Coming to the King
A collection of poems by Frances Ridley Havergal and others, all describing different aspects of our walk with God, from 'Coming to the King' to 'Under the Shadow.' |
By: Cale Young Rice (1872-1943) | |
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Nirvana Days |
By: Sidney Lanier (1842-1881) | |
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The Song of the Chattahoochee.
Sidney Clopton Lanier was an American musician, poet and author. He served in the Confederate army, worked on a blockade running ship for which he was imprisoned (resulting in his catching tuberculosis), taught, worked at a hotel where he gave musical performances, was a church organist, and worked as a lawyer. As a poet he used dialects. He became a flautist and sold poems to publications. He eventually became a university professor and is known for his adaptation of musical meter to poetry. Many schools, other structures and two lakes are named for him. | |
My Springs
LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of My Springs by Sidney Lanier. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for April 7th, 2013. This rather lovely poem is the poet's tribute to his wife's eyes. |
By: Charles A. Gunnison (1861-1897) | |
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In Macao |
By: Henry Abbey (1842-1911) | |
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Stories in Verse |
By: George Puttenham (-1590) | |
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The Arte of English Poesie |
By: Thomas Hood (1799-1845) | |
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Workhouse Clock
There were scarcely any events in the life of Thomas Hood. One condition there was of too potent determining importance—life-long ill health; and one circumstance of moment—a commercial failure, and consequent expatriation. Beyond this, little presents itself for record in the outward facts of this upright and beneficial career, bright with genius and coruscating with wit, dark with the lengthening and deepening shadow of death. |
By: Henry John Newbolt (1862-1938) | |
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Poems: New and Old |
By: George Colman (1762-1836) | |
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Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers." |
By: William Barksted (fl. 1611) | |
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Seven Minor Epics of the English Renaissance (1596-1624) |
By: Richard Morris (1833-1894) | |
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Early English Alliterative Poems in the West-Midland Dialect of the Fourteenth Century |
By: Jessie Duncan [Translator] Westbrook | |
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Hindustani Lyrics |
By: Laurence Hope (1865-1904) | |
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Hira-Singh's Farewell to Burmah
Adela Florence Nicolson was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. She was born in England and joined her father in 1881, who was employed in the British Army at Lahore (The traditional capital of Punjab for a millennium, Lahore was the cultural centre of the northern Indian subcontinent which extends from the eastern banks of the Indus River to New Delhi.) Her father was editor of the Lahore arm of The Civil and Military Gazette, and it was he who in all probability gave Rudyard Kipling (a contemporary of his daughter) his first employment as a journalist... |
By: Maciej Kazimierz Sarbiewski (1595-1640) | |
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The Odes of Casimire, Translated by G. Hils |
By: Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861) | |
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Amours De Voyage |
By: Henry Hart Milman (1791-1868) | |
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Nala and Damayanti and Other Poems |