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By: Madison Cawein (1865-1914)

Book cover Quarrel

This Weekly Poem is taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume II, New World Idylls and Poems of Love - Summary by David Lawrence

Book cover Poems of Madison Cawein Vol 5

This is Volume 5: Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It begins with the long poem Intimations of the Beautiful and falls into three sections: Poems of Meditation, Poems of Forest and Field, and Footpaths. - Summary by Larry Wilson

Book cover Poems of Madison Cawein Vol 3

This is Volume 3: Nature Poems of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. It's arranged in four sections: In The Shadow of the Beeches, Tansy and Sweet-Alyssum, Weeds by the Wall, and A Voice on the Wind. It is dedicated to "Doctor Henry A. Cottel whose kind words of friendship and approval have encouraged me most when I most needed encouragement." - Summary by Larry Wilson

By: Madison Julius Cawein (1865-1914)

Book cover An Ode Read August 15, 1907, at the dedication of the monument erected at Gloucester, Massachusetts, in commemoration of the founding of the Massachusetts Bay colony in the year sixteen hundred and twenty-three

By: Margaret E. (Margaret Elizabeth) Sangster (1894-1981)

Book cover Cross Roads

By: Margaret Sidney (1844-1924)

Book cover Twilight Stories

By: Maria Gowen Brooks (1795?-1845)

Book cover Zophiel A Poem

By: Maria L. Stewart

Book cover Our Little Brown House, A Poem of West Point Written for the New Year's Festival at the Cadets' Sabbath-school of the Methodist Episcopal Church, January 1, 1879

By: Marian Longfellow (1849-1924)

Book cover Contrasted Songs

This is a volume of collected poetry by American poet Marian Longfellow. The poems lack a uniform theme, but, as the author puts it, "Among these "Contrasted Songs" I trust that the reader will find something to which the heart may respond." - Summary by Carolin

By: Marietta Holley (1836-1926)

Book cover Poems

This is a collection of poems by Marietta Holley, better known as Josiah Allen's Wife.

By: Marjorie Allen Seiffert (1885-1970)

Book cover A Woman of Thirty

By: Mark Lemon (1809-1870)

Book cover 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: Martha Dickinson Bianchi (1866-1943)

Book cover Russian Lyrics

By: Mary Gardiner Horsford (1824-1855)

Book cover Indian Legends and Other Poems

By: Mary Tourtel (1874-1948)

Book cover A Horse Book

By: Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

Book cover Poetical Works of Matthew Arnold
Book cover Austerity Of Poetry

Matthew Arnold was an English poet and cultural critic who worked as an inspector of schools. He has been characterised as a sage writer, a type of writer who chastises and instructs the reader on contemporary social issues.

By: Maurice Baring (1874-1945)

Book cover Poems, 1914-1919

This is a collection of Maurice Baring's poetry. This collection contains a number of Baring's earlier poetry, written before the war mostly about his travels in Russia. The other part of the collection is made up of poetry concerning World War I, with some particulalry evocative sonnets and other poems. - Summary by Carolin

By: Maurice Henry Hewlett (1861-1923)

Book cover Helen Redeemed and Other Poems
Book cover The Village Wife's Lament

By: Michael Clarke (1844?-1916)

Book cover The Story of Troy

By: Michael Drayton (1563-1631)

Book cover Minor Poems of Michael Drayton
Book cover The Battaile of Agincourt
Book cover Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris

By: Morris Rosenfeld (1862-1923)

Book cover Songs of Labor and Other Poems

By: Mr. (Leonard) Welsted (1688-1747)

Book cover Two Poems Against Pope One Epistle to Mr. A. Pope and the Blatant Beast

By: Mrs. Warner-Sleigh

Book cover At the Seaside

By: Nancy Byrd Turner (1880-)

Book cover Zodiac Town The Rhymes of Amos and Ann

By: Nathalia Crane (1913-1998)

Book cover Janitor's Boy and Other Poems

Known for her whimsical verse and rhythmic, lilting poems Nathalia Crane was a child prodigy who published her first volume of poetry at the age of 10. There was nothing in her poems that indicated her age. Her delightful verse, and her maturity and insightfulness in poems such as The History of Honey, The Army Laundress, The Reading Boy, The Three Cornered Lot, and The Commonplace, won her recognition among poets. - Summary by AnnaLisa Bodtker

By: Nathaniel Parker Willis (1806-1867)

Book cover Declaration

Nathaniel Parker Willis is also known as N. P. Willis. He was an American author, poet and editor who worked with several notable American writers including Edgar Allan Poe and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. He became the highest-paid magazine writer of his day.

By: Nikolaj Velimirović (1880-1956)

Book cover Serbia in Light and Darkness With Preface by the Archbishop of Canterbury, (1916)

By: Norman Gale (1862-1942)

Book cover More Cricket Songs

By: Olive Tilford Dargan (1869-1968)

Book cover Path Flower and Other Verses

By: Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)

Book cover The Complete Poetical Works of Oliver Goldsmith

By: Oliver Herford (1863-1935)

Book cover 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!

Book cover An Alphabet of Celebrities
Book cover The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten
Book cover The Smoker's Year Book

By: Oliver Wendell Holmes

The One-Hoss Shay by Oliver Wendell Holmes 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.

Book cover The Professor at the Breakfast-Table
Book cover The Poet at the Breakfast-Table
Book cover Grandmother's Story of Bunker Hill Battle as She Saw it from the Belfry

By: Osborn H. Oldroyd (1842-1930)

Book cover The Poets' Lincoln Tributes in Verse to the Martyred President

By: Oscar Wilde (1854-1900)

The Fisherman and His Soul by Oscar Wilde 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)

Book cover Lucile

By: Owen Seaman (1861-1936)

Book cover The Battle of the Bays

By: Palmer Cox (1840-1924)

Book cover 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)

Book cover Cottage Poems

By: Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)

Book cover Poems of Paul Verlaine

By: Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792-1822)

Book cover A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays
Book cover The Daemon of the World
Book cover The Witch of Atlas
Book cover Peter Bell the Third

By: Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

Book cover A Defence of Poesie and Poems

By: Phillis Wheatley (1753-1784)

Book cover 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)

The Symposium by Plato 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)

The Aeneid by Publius Vergilius Maro 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 by Publius Vergilius Maro 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)

Book cover The Vagabond and Other Poems from Punch

By: R. F. Murray (1863-1894)

Book cover 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.


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