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Preface
In Rampolli
A collection of poems by George MacDonald translated from various European languages including works by Novalis, Schiller, Goethe, Heine, Pe…
Written in Album at Clifton
In The Poetical Works of Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Volume 1
The English poet Thomas Lovell Beddoes was born in Clifton in Bristol and educated at Pembroke College, Oxford. He later studied medicine at…
Sonnet I
In Twenty Sonnets
The English poet Robert Southey was born in Bristol in 1774 and held the post of Poet Laureate from 1813 until his death in 1843.These twent…
Andrew Carnegie
In More Misrepresentative Men
A collection of humorous verse covering a variety of men.
Memory
In Complete Poems
Anne Brontë was the youngest of the three famous literary sisters and is best known for her novel The Tenant of Wildfell Hall. She wrot…
Wae’s Me
In A Spray of Lilac, and Other Poems and Songs
Marie Hedderwick-Browne was born in Ireland, but spent her formative years in Glasgow, Scotland, where her father, John Hedderwick, was a pr…
Song
In The Poetical Works
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…
Appendix II
In A Cabinet of Gems
A Cabinet of Gems, cut and polished by Sir Philip Sidney; now, for the more radiance, presented without their setting by George MacDonald.&q…
A Sad Warning by Geo. W. H. Harrison
In Prison Poetry
A collection of poetry written in the late 1800's by inmates of the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. - Summary by mleigh
St. George of England
In The Queen of the Seven Swords
A collection of poems by G.K. Chesterton, centered around the Blessed Virgin Mary. The title is in reference to the seven sorrows of Mary. “…
To R. F.
In Riders of the Stars: A Book of Western Verse
A collection of poems by novelist, short story writer and poet Henry Herbert Knibbs. Another of his books of verse, "Songs of the Outla…
Shadow Song
In Shadowland: September, 1919
Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from 1919 to 1923 before being absorbed by Motion Picture C…
The Piedbill Grebe
In Birds, Vol. I, No 4, April 1897
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…
The American Avocet
In Birds, Vol. II, No 1, July 1897
Birds, Illustrated by Color Photography was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems…
The Blind Harper
In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 1: Lyrics and Old World Idylls
A collection of poems by Madison Cawein. It has been said that his vocation to poetry was irresistible. - Summary by Michele Eaton
Lufra by Sir Walter Scott
In To Your Dog and To My Dog
A collection of verse dedicated to dogs. (Summary by mleigh)
The Ant
In Lucasta
"Lucasta" is of Latin origin meaning "Pure Light". Besides the dedication of the first poem to his wife, Anne Lovelace, …
The Rover, by Sir Walter Scott
In Famous Poems: A New Anthology Of Lyrics And Ballads
A collection of famous poems by various authors who wrote during the period 1550 to 1892, including works by Shakespeare, Milton, Wordsworth…
Prelude
In The Book of Jade
The Book of Jade is a collection of poems published anonymously in 1901 and dedicated "To the Memory of Charles Baudelaire". Its a…
Written in Edinburgh by Arthur Henry Hallam
In Sonnets of This Century
This comprehensive anthology of English sonnets of the Nineteenth Century, edited and arranged by William Sharp, was published in 1887. It…