Single Author Collections
The Gardener and The Burden
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Rudyard Kipling
Helen Turrell’s life has been one of respectability and duty, and she adopts and raises her illegitimate nephew upon her scapegrace brother’…
The Tower
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William Butler Yeats
The Tower is a short collections of poems by William Butler Yeats published in 1928 not long after he received the Nobel Prize for Literatur…
Before the Mirror
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Elizabeth Stoddard
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, née Barstow was a United States poet and novelist. She is most widely known today as the author of The Morge…
Sonnets
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Constance Naden
Naden's sonnets have topics as diverse as astronomy, classical mythology and Shakespeare's birthplace. This collection is taken from Naden's…
A Shropshire Lad (Version 3)
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A. E. Housman
Composed while Housman was living in London, and mostly before he even visited the county of Shropshire, A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of 63 p…
Poems
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George Murray
George Murray was a British poet, translator and scholar who lived out most of his life in Canada, where he was a classics master at a Montr…
Ventures into Verse
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H. L. Mencken
Better known for his biting satire, Mencken's first book was this small volume of verses. - Summary by Larry Wilson
Orchids
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Theodore Wratislaw
Theodore Wratislaw was a fin de siècle poet and a less famous Decadent author than some of his contemporaries.This short collection o…
Poems by Edward Thomas
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Edward Thomas
Born in 1878, Thomas published his first book when he was 18. Having married while still at university, he supported his family by writing a…
Not for the Night-Time
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Theo Gift
Dorothy Boulger (1847-1923), who wrote under the pen-name Theo Gift, assembled four original short stories of supernatural and unsettling ha…
The Miniature
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George Pope Morris
George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. In addition to his publishing and editorial work, Morris was popular as a p…
Songs by the Sea
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Rebecca Ruter Springer
Best known for her mystical writing, IntraMuros, Rebecca Ruter Springer was also a sensitive poet. This a short volume of her poems celebra…
Poems of Schiller - 1st Period
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Friedrich Schiller
Poems by the German Classical poet Friedrich von Schiller from his first period (until 1785) in English translations by Edgar A. Bowring et …
Tall Tales Of Cape Cod
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Marillis Bittinger
“The title of this volume is perhaps misleading. Tall Tales of Cape Cod they are, yes, but in a broader sense that are the feel and the basi…
Homeward Songs by the Way
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George William Russell
George William Russell -- better known by his pen name "A.E." -- was an Irish writer, poet and mystic, a lifelong friend of Willia…
Opals
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Olive Custance
At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the …
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…
April Twilights and Other Poems
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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
A selection of thirty-six poems by American writer Willa Cather. (summary by mleigh)
Debits and Credits
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Rudyard Kipling
This is a collection of short stories, poems, and play fragments published in 1926. Many of them are set during World War I. Many have stron…