Poetry Books

Anthology of Magazine Verse for 1914

William Stanley Braithwaite

The great secret of life is to discover by a process of related effects, this common reality of experience. Most of mankind grope blindly in the dark, and miss it, and by a kind of frenzied and pitiab..

Base-ball Ballads

Grantland Rice

A collection of poems written by Grantland Rice:The Song of the Base HitOn the Road to Rooters’ Row“Till the Last Man Is Out”The BushersThe Climax of Fan JoySongs of Swat—“You Uster Bat .300”The ..

Terrible Tractation and Other Poems

Christopher Caustic

The origin of the poem entitled Tractoration, is as follows: In the year 1801 the author, (who is a native of Walpole, New Hampshire,) was in London, on business as an agent for a Company in Vermont. ..

The Cathedral

James Russell Lowell

The Cathedral, by James Russell Lowell. Dr. Johnson’s sturdy self-respect led him to invent the Bookseller as a substitute for the Patron. My relations with you have enabled me to discover how pl..

Jingles

Frank J. Medina

THE SCHOOL HOUSE ON THE PLAIN’Tis not far from the foothills,THE SEA OF LIFESmoothly we sail o’er life’s mighty sea,THE TICKING OF THE CLOCKFar from friends and comrades,THE WILD AND WOOLLY WESTYou ca..

Around the Boree Log and Other Verses

John O'Brien

Oh, stick me in the old caboose this night of wind and rain,And let the doves of fancy loose to bill and coo again.I want to feel the pulse of love that warmed the blood like wine;I want to see the sm..

The Shadow-Eater

Benjamin De Casseres

The Shadow-Eater is American poems collection  by Benjamin De Casseres.Love and SleepThe WatcherFace to FaceMy ShadowsThe VigilThe Closed RoomHalf-SeenThe Long VigilPropheticResurrection NightBir..

Ismael; an oriental tale. With other poems

Edward George Lytton Bulwer

Most of the larger Poems in the Collection express in easy language, and at the same time with all the graces of genuine poetry, every sentiment fitted to the occasion on which they were written. Of t..