Poetry Books

Sea Fever

John Masefield

John Edward Masefield OM was an English poet and writer and the Poet Laureate of the United Kingdom from 1930 until 1967. Among his best known works are the children's novels The Midnight Folk and The..

The Pulley

George Herbert

The Pulley by George Herbert is a religious, metaphysical poem which centers on the 'pulley' as a prime conceit in the poem. Herbert wants to unveil the truth that why human beings are so restless and..

The Prose Works of William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth

William Wordsworth was a major English Romantic poet who, with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, helped to launch the Romantic Age in English literature with their joint publication Lyrical Ballads...

Endymion - A Poetic Romance

John Keats

Endymion is a poem by John Keats first published in 1818 by Taylor and Hessey of Fleet Street in London. It begins with the line "A thing of beauty is a joy for ever". Endymion is written in rhyming c..

John Smith, U.S.A.

Eugene Field

From whatever point of view the character of Eugene Field is seen, genius—rare and quaint presents itself is childlike simplicity. That he was a poet of keen perception, of rare discrimination, all wi..

Oroonoko - or, the Royal Slave

Aphra Behn

Oroonoko: or, the Royal Slave is a short work of prose fiction by Aphra Behn, published in 1688 by William Canning and reissued with two other fictions later that year.Aphra Behn was the first woman w..

Among the Millet and Other Poems

Archibald Lampman

Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. "He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets." The Canadian Encycl..

Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare

Edith Nesbit

Edith Nesbit, the author of Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare, felt passionately that young children should enjoy Shakespeare's great works. She set about to retell his plays in a language that child..