Poetry Books

Helen of Troy

Andrew Lang

Helen of Troy is a collection of poems for children compiled by Andrew Lang,  a Scottish poet, novelist, literary critic, and contributor to the field of anthropology. He is best known ..

Sonnets from the Portuguese

Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Sonnets from the Portuguese, written ca. 1845–1846 and published first in 1850, is a collection of 44 love sonnets written by Elizabeth Barrett Browning. The collection was acclaimed and popular durin..

The Seven Seas

Rudyard Kipling

The Seven Seas is a book of poetry by Rudyard Kipling published 1896. Dedication To The City Of BombayA Song Of The EnglishThe First ChanteyThe Last ChanteyThe MerchantmenMCANDREWS' HYMNThe Mirac..

The Kipling Reader

Rudyard Kipling

The Kipling Reader Selections from the Books of Rudyard Kipling contains prose works including  'Rikki-Tikki-Tavi', William the Conqueror, Part I, William the Conqueror, Part II, Wee Willie Winki..

I Do Not Love Thee

Caroline Norton

Caroline Elizabeth Sarah Norton, born in London in 1808, is the author of The Lady of la Garaye (Macmillan, 1866), The Sorrows of Rosalie: A Tale with Other Poems (John Ebors and Co., 1829), and sever..

Easter, 1916

William Butler Yeats

Easter, 1916 is a poem by W. B. Yeats describing the poet's torn emotions regarding the events of the Easter Rising staged in Ireland against British rule on Easter Monday, April 24, 1916. The uprisin..

The Cremation of Sam McGee

Robert Service

The Cremation of Sam McGee is among the most famous of Robert W. Service's poems. It was published in 1907 in Songs of a Sourdough. It concerns the cremation of a prospector who freezes to death near ..

Dover Beach

Matthew Arnold

Dover Beach is a lyric poem by the English poet Matthew Arnold. It was first published in 1867 in the collection New Poems, but surviving notes indicate its composition may have begun as early as 1849..