Single Author Collections
Rhymes of Childhood
Not nursery rhymes, but poems about different scenes of childhood. Poems about Grandpa, Grandma, story time, castor oil, “Wait till your pa …
Scottish Ghost Stories
A public domain collection of Scottish Ghost tales by Elliott O'Donnell. 1911 - Summary by Sherry Morrow
The Garden of Dreams
Madison Cawein from Kentucky, displays a wider range of his poetic dreams, from the bright to the dark. - Summary by Larry Wilson
The Georgics
A poem by the Latin poet Virgil, the second of his three known works. "Georgic" means "to work the land," and on such ma…
Selected Poems
John Keats is perhaps the most talented poet of the English Romantic Period. Although his life was cut short by disease at the age of 25, he…
Sagas of Vaster Britain
A collection of poems by the Canadian poet William Wilfred Campbell addressing themes of National Identity, Imperialism and the Divinity of …
The Rainbow and the Rose
A collection of poetry in the whimsical style of Edith Nesbit, author of "The Five Children and It" and "The Railway Children…
Italian Life and Legends
A mix of short works written by Anna Cora Mowatt Ritchie during her residence in Florence from 1864-65, this collection was edited and prepa…
The Arabian Nights Entertainments
The Arabian Nights Entertainments invites listeners into a mesmerizing world of ancient tales, where magic, adventure, and wisdom intertwine…
The Sunny Side
A. A. Milne is best known for his creation of the perennially popular Winnie the Pooh, though he was and is highly acclaimed for hundreds of…
English Stornelli
In this sequence Augusta Webster experimented with eight-line verses grouped thematically by the seasons of the year. These poems also explo…
Barrack-Room Ballads
Barrack-Room Ballads is a collection of poems by Rudyard Kipling which describe life in the British Army, particularly in India, in his time…
The Burning Wheel
Though Aldous Huxley is best known for his later novels and essays, he started his writing career as a poet. The Burning Wheel is his first …
A Child's Garden of Verses
Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child's Garden of Verses is one of the most popular and loved collections of children’s verse of the 19th century…
Over Here and Over There
In publishing this book I have no intention whatsoever to offer a work of great literary value. As such it would undoubtedly be a failure, …
Second April
Second April is a poignant collection of poems by Edna St. Vincent Millay, capturing the essence of human emotion and the complexities of lo…
The Man with the Hoe
Edwin Markham was an American poet whose poems often drew attention to the laborers of the world and frequently expressed elements of faith.…
The Crescent Moon
This is a wonderful collection of lyrical poetry and poetry in prose by India's most well-known poet, Rabindranath Tagore, whose book Gitanj…
Verse and Worse
A collection of dark and humorous verse from "Col D. Streamer". This collection includes poems from The Baby's Baedeker, Perverted…
The Spell of the Yukon
Known as the Bard of the Yukon and as a people's poet, Robert Service immortalized his experience with the Yukon and its gold rush and this …