Single Author Collections
Poems of Progress and New Thought Pastels
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Ella Wheeler Wilcox
This book contains 2 poetry bundles by Ella Wheeler Wilcox, containing many better- or lesser-known poems. The poems are recorded by a singl…
Songs of Love and Life
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Zora Cross
Songs of Love and Life by Zora Cross was a phenomenon in the author's native Australia in 1917. The original privately-published edition qui…
Oak and Ivy
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Paul Laurence Dunbar
"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…
Greetings from Longfellow
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
This is a wonderful selection of six of the greatest works from Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, unquestionably one of the world's most celebrate…
Poems of Emile Verhaeren
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Emile Verhaeren
A selection of poems from Belgian symbolist poet Émile Verhaeren, translated from French by Alma Strettell. Most of the poems selecte…
Chicago Poems
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Carl Sandburg
"Chicago Poems" was Carl Sandburg's first collection published by a mainstream publishing house. This slender volume contains at l…
An Alphabet of History
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Wilbur D. Nesbit
These witty, engaging and amusing poetic descriptions of the lives of prominent people are not only a joy to read, but are a quick and easy …
Dream Tales and Prose Poems
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Ivan Turgenev
World-renowned Russian author Ivan Turgenev brings us a collection of stories that traffic in the world of dreams, stories of lost love, of …
Amoretti and Epithalamion
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Edmund Spenser
"These Sonnets furnish us with a circumstantial and very interesting history of Spenser's second courtship, which, after many repulses,…
Where the Pelican Builds
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Mary Hannay Foott
Mary Hannay Foott was an Australian poet and editor who is best remembered for the poem Where the pelican builds.
The Poems of Madison Cawein
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Madison Cawein
This is Volume 4: Poems of Mystery and of Myth and Romance of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentucky. …
Short Stories
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Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell
Elizabeth Gaskell was a regular contributor to Dickens's 'Household Worlds' and 'All The Round' until he later years. From 1858 onwards, she…
The Vengence of the Gods
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William Pickens
Although slavery was abolished in the United States with the ratification of the 13th Amendment on December 6, 1865, its cancerous tendrils …
Songs of the Outlands
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Henry Herbert Knibbs
A poetry collection. The poem "Out There Somewhere" was extensively quoted in and was the basis for Edgar Rice Burroughs' story &q…
Cecil's Own Book
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Ann Hawkshaw
Ann Hawkshaw's fourth and final collection was published privately and named for her young grandson, Cecil Wedgwood. Written for children, t…
Last Poems
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A. E. Housman
"I publish these poems, few though they are, because it is not likely that I shall ever be impelled to write much more. I can no longer…
Hawaiian Hilltop
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Genevieve Taggard
Genevieve Taggard was an American poet, teacher and socialist. This collection was first published in 1923 and deals with topics such as pe…
Lamia
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John Keats
In his wonderful interpretation of the classic tale of Lamia - the mythological entity portrayed as being a deadly threat especially to chil…
Frontier Humor in Verse, Prose and Picture
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Palmer Cox
Also known for his "Brownies" books, Canadian humorist Palmer Cox give us a delightful collection of humorous verse and short pros…
Poems by a Slave
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George Moses Horton
This book of poems, published originally in 1829 and reprinted in 1837, was the second book written by George M. Horton. It addresses themes…