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The New Life (La vita nuova)

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Dante Alighieri


One of Dante's earliest works, La vita nuova or La vita nova (The New Life) is in a prosimetrum style, a combination of prose and verse, and…

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyám (Persian original and Whinfield translation)

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Omar Khayyám


Omar Khayyám (1048–1131) was a Persian poet, mathematician and astronomer. In the Western world he is most famous for his many rub&aa…

Iphigenia in Aulis (Way translation)

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Euripides


Iphigenia in Aulis (Ancient Greek: Ἰφιγένεια ἐν Αὐλίδι) is the last extant work of the playwright Euripides. Written between 408, after the …

The Borough

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George Crabbe


English village life and villagers in the east of England in the late 1700’s and early 1800s—is the subject of The Borough. George Crabbe …

Bransford Of Rainbow Range

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Eugene Manlove Rhodes


A genuine cowboy who speaks a bit of Greek? Ditto a bit of The Litany? And more than a little verse, including (would you believe?) Alice In…

Elegiac Sonnets and Other Poems

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Charlotte Turner Smith


Charlotte Turner Smith (1749 – 1806) was an English poet and novelist. She initiated a revival of the English sonnet, helped establish the c…

Goblins and Pagodas

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John Gould Fletcher


John Gould Fletcher (1886 – 1950) is considered by many literary scholars to be among the most innovative twentieth-century poets. He enjoye…

Poems (1686)

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Anne Killigrew


These are the original, tender and thoughtful poems of a young female artist who lived and died in seventeenth century London -- only 70 yea…

The Coming of the Princess, and Other Poems

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Kate Seymour MacLean


There is truth, doubtless, in the remark, that we are enriched less by what we have than by what we hope to have. As the poetic art in Canad…

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,…

Poems

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Elizabeth Stoddard


These outstanding poems by the renowned author Elizabeth Stoddard speak of the poet's hunger for the freedom of an idyllic future - a hunger…

Idris Davies Welsh Miner Poet Forgotten History Radio Documentary



Idris Davies Welsh Miner Poet   Neil Kinnock is a long standing admirer of the poetry of fellow Welshman, Idris Davies. Born in 1905, D…

Woe from Wit [Горе от ума]

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Alexander Sergeyevich Griboedov


Woe from Wit (Russian: Горе от ума, also translated as "The Woes of Wit", "Wit Works Woe" and so forth) is Alexander Gri…

The Bible For Young People Vol. 1

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Anonymous


"The Bible for Young People tells the sweet and simple stories of the Bible in the Bible language, omitting only genealogies and doctri…

Selections from Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War

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Herman Melville


Published in 1866, Battle-Pieces and Aspects of the War is a collection of poems about the Civil War by Herman Melville. Many of the poems a…

The Bible For Young People Vol. 2

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Anonymous


"The Bible for Young People tells the sweet and simple stories of the Bible in the Bible language, omitting only genealogies and doctri…

The Hundred Best English Poems

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Various


This wonderful collection of poems showcases the incredible talent of the some of the greatest poets in the world. These creative masterpiec…

The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - September

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John Kendrick Bangs


There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was pub…

The Cheery Way, a Bit of Verse for Every Day - November

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John Kendrick Bangs


There should be a bit of poetry in every day, and John Kendrick Bangs wrote a fitting poem for each day in the year. In 1920, a book was pub…

Songs of the Outlands: Ballads of the Hoboes and Other Verse

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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…

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