Lyric
Sammlung deutscher Gedichte
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Various
Dies ist ein offenes Projekt für deutsche Lyrik: jedes Gedicht, das in der Public Domain (gemeinfrei) ist, wird in die Lyrik-Sammlung a…
Love Poems
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D. H. Lawrence
"Love Poems and Others" was D. H. Lawrence's first book of poetry published in 1913.(Summary by Alan Mapstone)
Underwoods
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Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist and poet best known for his children's adventure stories. Born in Edinburgh he travelled exte…
The Negro's Complaint
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William Cowper
William Cowper was an English poet and Anglican hymn writer. He was a forerunner of the Romantic movement in English poetry and strongly inf…
The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Elizabeth Barrett Browning was born in County Durham, England in 1806. From the age of 15 she suffered a series of debilitating illnesses. H…
Lyric Poems
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Robert Southey
Robert Southey was born in Bristol in England in 1774 and appointed Poet Laurete in 1813, a post he grew to dislike. He was an Oxford contem…
The New Joan and Other Poems
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Katherine Hale
Katherine Hale is the pen name of Amelia Beers Warnock Garvin, a Canadian poet and literary critic. This volume is one of her collections w…
A Spray of Lilac
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Marie Hedderwick Browne
Marie Hedderwick-Browne was born in Ireland, but spent her formative years in Glasgow, Scotland, where her father, John Hedderwick, was a pr…
New Poems
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D. H. Lawrence
D. H. Lawrence's poetry changed stylistically during the First World War when, influenced by Walt Whitman, he began to write free verse. He …
Hebrew Melodies
Read by Alan Mapstone
George Gordon, Lord Byron
Byron wrote the Hebrew Melodies to accompany music by the composer Isaac Nathan which he claimed derived from Synagogue tunes used at the ti…
The Church Militant and Other Poems
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George Herbert
George Herbert was an English poet, orator and cleric who was Public Orator at the University of Cambridge before becoming a rural Parish Mi…
Muse and Mint
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Walter Seymour Percy
Born in Ontario, Canada, Walter Percy entered the ministry and pastored churches in New England and Pennsylvania, often speaking on behalf o…
The Dirge of the Sea-Children
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Kenneth Rand
The first of three volumes of poetry published by Yale English literature graduate Kenneth Rand before his untimely death in 1918 by the Gre…
The Poetical Works
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Fitz-Greene Halleck
Fitz-Greene Halleck was born in the old Connecticut coastal town of Guildford. At age 21 he moved to New York where he worked for nearly 4 d…
A Marigold Miscellany
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Arthur William Fisher, Franklin H. Mackey, Mary Pettus Thomas, Harvey Maitland Watts, Catherine Wheeler, George Wither and Susan Augusta Woodbridge
This collection celebrates the marigold in verse from the 17th through the 20th centuries. - Summary by Newgatenovelist
Sammlung deutscher Gedichte
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Various
Dies ist ein offenes Projekt für deutsche Lyrik: jedes Gedicht, das in der Public Domain (gemeinfrei) ist, wird in die Lyrik-Sammlung a…
Epistle to Lord Byron
Read by Alan Mapstone
Leigh Hunt
Leigh Hunt was an English poet, essayist and editor best remembered as the host of a literary circle which gathered at his home in Hampstead…
Poems
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Thomas Hardy
Thomas Hardy wrote these poems in response to the death of his first wife. They are considered to be among his finest work.(Summary by Alan …
Songs of Somewhere Back
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Grantland Rice
Grantland Rice was an American poet and sportswriter. In these poems he looks back nostalgically on his early life and Tennessee small town …
The Lotos Eaters
Read by Alan Mapstone
Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Alfred Tennyson was Poet Laureate of Great Britain from 1850 until his death in 1892. Please enjoy this collection of selected poems by him.…