Literature-Poetry

This classic epic poem, translated from Latin, written around 29-19BC, contains twelve books exploring the legends surrounding Aeneas and the founding of Rome. The first six books follow Aeneas' journeys and are modeled after Homer's "Odyssey." The last six patterned after the "Iliad" deal with the Trojan war where Aeneas is told, as he leaves the burning ruins, that he will found a glorious city of destiny in the West.
Amours de Voyage by Arthur Clough
Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England by Robert Bell (editor)
Taken down from oral recitation and transcribed from private manuscripts, rare broadsides and scarce publications.
An Anthology of Australian Verse by Bertram Stevens
Ballad of Reading Gaol by Oscar Wilde
This long ballad poem published in 1898 was Wilde's last artistic effort. The poem is a social commentary against the deplorable and inhuman conditions existing in Reading jail. His poignant plea for prison reform was written while he served a two-year term there.
The Ballad of the White Horse by G. K. Chesterton
Ballads by Robert Louis Stevenson
Ballads Lyrics and Poems of Old France by Andrew Lang
Ballads of a Bohemian by Robert W. Service
Ballads of a Cheechako by Robert W. Service
British-born Canadian Poet -- 1874-1958.
Ballads, by Horatio Alger, Jr. by Horatio Alger, Jr.
Ballads, by Robert Louis Stevenson by Robert Louis Stevenson
Ban and Arriere Ban by Andrew Lang
Book of Thel by William Blake
The Breitmann Ballads by Charles G. Leland
Cavalier Songs & Ballads of England by Charles Mackay/ Editor
Charmides and Other Poems by Oscar Wilde
Children of the Night by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Chinese Nightingale, et al by Vachel Lindsay
Harriet Monroe awarded the Levinson Prize to "The Chinese Nightingale", as the best contribution to "Poetry: A Magazine of Verse", for the year 1915.
The City of Dreadful Night by James Thomson
A Collection of Ballads by Various Authors
Complete Poetical Works by Bret Harte
The Complete Poetical Works of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Complete Works, Vol I by James Whitcomb Riley
Complete Works, Vol X by James Whitcomb Riley
The Congo and Other Poems by Vachel Lindsay
Country Sentiment by Robert Graves
Culprit Fay and Other Poems by Joseph Rodman Drake
A Defence of Poesie and Poems by Philil Sidney
The Dhammapada by Translated by F. Max Muller
The Divine Comedy: Inferno by Dante Alighieri (Tr. H.W. Longfellow)
The Divine Comedy: Paradise by Dante Alighieri (Tr. H.W. Longfellow)
The Divine Comedy: Purgatory by Dante Alighieri (Tr. H.W. Longfellow)
Dome of Many-Coloured Glass by Amy Lowell
"These poems arouse interest, and justify it by the result. Miss Lowell is the sister of President Lowell of Harvard. Her art, however, needs no reflection from such distinguished influence to make apparent its distinction. Such verse as this is delightful, has a sort of personal flavour, a loyalty to the fundamentals of life and nationality. . . . The child poems are particularly graceful."
Dreams & Dust by Don Marquis
Enoch Arden by Alfred Tennyson
Evangeline: A Tale of Acadie by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
The Fall of Troy by Quintus Smyrnaeus (Translation by A.S. Way)
Flame and Shadow by Sara Teasdale
Flower of the Mind, and Later Poems by Alice Meynell
Four Poems by John Milton
L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and Lycidas
General William Booth Enters into Heaven and Other Poems by Vachel Lindsay
The Georgics [English] by Virgil
The Golden Threshold by Sarojini Naidu
Grass of Parnassus by Andrew Lang
Helen of Troy And Other Poems by Sara Teasdale
Hermione's Little Group of Serious Thinkers by Don Marquis
The House of Dust by Conrad Aiken
The Hunting of the Snark by Lewis Carroll
Relying on the reader's imagination as to exactly what a Snark is, this lively nonsense poem was written in eight cantos. A sea voyage search for the elusive Snark is embarked upon by a baker, a banker, a barrister, a beaver, a bellman, a billiards maker, a bonnet maker, a bootblack, a broker and a butcher. Much hidden meaning has been ascribed to this poem, but it nevertheless remains nonsensical fun.
Idylls of the King by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
This version of the Arthurian legend takes the form of twelve poems published in various combinations over a 46-year period ending in 1888. Following the basic history set forth by Thomas Malory's "Le Morte Darthur," Tennyson presents a picture of King Arthur from his initial meeting with his future queen, Guinevere, to the last battle with his son, Modred. A somber view of Camelot emerges as we watch the decline of the idealistic round table and its vision of chivalry. The decay is partly attributed to Guinevere's love relationship with Sir Lancelot. This detailed work also looks at a number of key figures and the mystical quest for the Holy Grail.
I'll Never Go Home Again by Arthur Stringer
In A Far Township by Sarah N. Cleghorn
In A Mission Garden by Clarence Urmy
In Flanders Fields by John McCrae
In the Days When the World Was Wide by Henry Lawson
Jerusalem Delivered by Torquato Tasso
Just Folks by Edgar A. Guest
Lays of Ancient Rome by Thomas Babbington Macaulay
Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
The Little Book of Modern Verse by Jessie B. Rittenhouse
Love or Fame; and other Poems by Fannie Isabelle Sherrick
Love Songs by Sara Teasdale
The Lucasta Poems by Richard Lovelace
Lucile by Owen Meredith
A Lute of Jade by L. Cranmer-Byng
Lyrical Poems of Robert Herrick by Robert Herrick
Main Street, Other Poems by Joyce Kilmer
The Man against the Sky by Edwin A. Robinson
The Man From Snowy River by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson
Many Voices by E. Nesbit
Men, Women and Ghosts by Amy Lowell
Moral Emblems by Robert Louis Stevenson
More Bab Ballads by W. S. Gilbert
Nature of Things by Titus Lucretius Carus (Translated by William Ellery Leonard)
New Collected Rhymes by Andrew Lang
New Poems by Francis Thompson
New Poems by Robert Louis Stevenson
Paradise Lost by John Milton
Epic poem written with superb rhythm in blank verse in 1667. Milton's subject is the creation of man and his subsequent fall from grace. The protagonists are God, Lucifer, Adam and Eve. Much controversy was stirred up by a seemingly sympathetic treatment of Satan in his rebellion against heaven.
Paradise Regained by John Milton
Phantasmagoria and Other Poems by Lewis Carroll
Pharsalia [Civil War] by Marcus Annaeus Lucanus
Poems by Oscar Wilde
Poems by Alice Meynell
Poems by Frances E. W. Harper
from: The Black Heritage Library Collection
Poems by Charlotte, Emily and Anne Bronte [as Bell Brothers]
Poems by William Ernest Henley
Poems by T.S. Eliot
Certain of these poems first appeared in Poetry, Blast, Others, The Little Review, and Art and Letters.
Poems by Wilfred Owen
Poems by Francis Thompson
Poems - Seeger by Alan Seeger
Poems and Songs of Robert Burns by Robert Burns
Poems By a Little Girl by Hilda Conkling
The Poems of A.L. [Adam Lindsay] Gordon by A.L. [Adam Lindsay] Gordon
The Poems of Goethe by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (trans. Bowring)
The Poems of Henry Kendall by Alexander Sutherland
The Poems of Henry Timrod by Henry Timrod
Poems of Rupert Brooke by Rupert Brooke
Poems of Sidney Lanier by Sidney Lanier
Poems, Volume I by George Meredith
Poems, Volume II by George Meredith
Poems, Volume III by George Meredith
Poems: Patriotic, Religious, etc. by Father Ryan
The Princess by Alfred Lord Tennyson
The unusual structure of this long poem published in 1847 anticipates twentieth-century poetry. This strange fantasy is told through a fragmented narrative which rotates between seven young men and women gathered on a summer's evening. They tell of a princess who abandons the world of men and forms a college for women. A persistent suitor attacks the college and she must do battle with him. Each narrator embellishes the story and adds to the characterization.
Prufrock and Other Observations by T. S. Eliot
R. F. Murray: His Poems by R. F. Murray (ed. A. Lang)
with a Memoir by Andrew Lang
The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
A Reading of Life, Other Poems by George Meredith
Religious and Moral Poems by Phillis Wheatley
Renascence and Other Poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay
Rhymes a la Mode by Andrew Lang
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man by Robert W. Service
Rhymes of a Rolling Stone by Robert W. Service
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
One of the most famous narrative ballads of nineteenth-century literature. This poem is an account by a sailor of the tragic circumstances that unfold from his thoughtless act of violence: the killing of an albatross, a beautiful and symbolic sea bird. The magnificence of the language and its message culminates with a simple thought: "He prayeth best, who loveth best/ All things great and small."
Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses by Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson
Rivers to the Sea by Sara Teasdale
The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayam (Rendered into English Verse by Edward Fitzgerald)
Saltbush Bill, J.P., and Other Verses by A. B. Paterson
Second April by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The Second Book of Modern Verse by (editor) Jessie B. Rittenhouse
Select Poems of Sidney Lanier by Morgan Callaway
Selected Poems of Oscar Wilde by Oscar Wilde
A Selection From The Lyrical Poems Of Robert Herrick by Francis Turner Palgrave
Sister Songs by Francis Thompson
The Song of Hiawatha by Henry W. Longfellow
Songs for Parents by John Farrar
Songs of a Savoyard by W. S. Gilbert
Songs Of Experience by William Blake
Songs Of Innocence by William Blake
Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience by William Blake
Songs of Travel and Other Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
Sonnets from the Portugese by Elizabeth Barrett Browning
The Spell of the Yukon by Robert W. Service
Spirits in Bondage by C. S. Lewis
Spoon River Anthology by Edgar Lee Masters
Sword Blades and Poppy Seed by Amy Lowell
The Tale of Balen by Algernon Charles Swinburne
TheBabBallads by W.S. Gilbert
The Three Taverns by Edwin Arlington Robinson
Trees and Other Poems by Joyce Kilmer
"Mine is no horse with wings, to gain
The region of the Spheral chime;
He does but drag a rumbling wain,
Cheered by the coupled bells of rhyme."
Coventry Patmore
Troilus and Criseyde by Geoffrey Chaucer
This long poem of tragic love and moral perspective was written by Chaucer in the 1380's and considered to be his finest. During the Trojan War King Priam's son, Troilus, falls in love with Criseyde, the daughter of Calchas, a priest who deserts to the Greeks. They are aided by Criseyde's uncle, Pandarus, but to no avail because she is sent out of the city to join her father in the Greek camp. She promises to return, but in time is loved and comes to love a Greek warrior, Diomedes, leaving Troilus to despair and die in the war. Chaucer speaks directly of determinism and the waste of sexual obsession as compared to the everlasting love of the Divine.