Poetry Books

The Ghetto and Other Poems

Lola Ridge

Lola Ridge (12 December 1873 Dublin – 19 May 1941 Brooklyn) was an anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications best remembered for her long poems and po..

Dramatic Romances

Robert Browning

[The Dramatic Romances,...] enriched by some of the poems originally printed in Men and Women, and a few from Dramatic Lyrics as first printed, include some of Browning's finest and most characteristi..

The True Grecian Bend - A Story in Verse

Larry Leigh

She sat in the shade, for she feared that the lightWould bring to her vision that horrible sight,A female with vertebral column askew,And now as she sat here she dreaded the view.But at the next momen..

Mortal Summer

Mark Van Doren

Mark Van Doren was an American poet, writer and critic. He was a scholar and a professor of English at Columbia University for nearly 40 years, where he inspired a generation of influential writers.&n..

The Death of the Scharnhorst, and Other Poems

Arch Alfred McKillen

The Death of the Scharnhorst, and Other Poems by Arch Alfred McKillenThe Bird, the Lad and MeThe War in SpainIt Rains TonightWhile Drums Are RollingApolloFountain of LovelinessHighway Number 66Di..

A happy New Year, and other verses

C. E. de la Poer Beresford

A happy New Year, and other verses, by C. E. de la Poer Beresford.A Happy New YearCradle SongQueen Tamara’s CastleUlster’s PrayerDark DonegalHy-BrasailBálor of the Great BlowsThe Garden..

Harlem Shadows

Claude McKay

Claude McKay was born in 1890 in a little thatched house of two rooms in a beautiful valley of the hilly middle-country of Jamaica. He was born to the genial, warm, patient, neighborly farmer’s life o..

The Isle of Demons and Other Poems

George Martin

The poems have been inspired by the history and the scenery of Canada, and in collecting them, and in issuing and publishing them, the author hopes to put in permanent literary form some of the natura..