Poetry Books

A Life's Story, In Poetry. Other Poems

Dennison Woodcock

A Life's Story, In Poetry, by Dennison WoodcockA LIFE'S STORYDIADAMATO LEONAJESSIE BY THE FOUNTAINDEHEWAMISTHE RUMSELLER'S SOLILOQUYWRIGHTSCAUTION TO BOYS, or THE SILLY FLYTHE RUINED HOME.IN FAVOR of ..

Dreams and Images - An Anthology of Catholic Poets

Joyce Kilmer

This is not a collection of devotional poems. It is not an attempt to rival Orby Shipley’s admirable “Carmina Mariana” or any other similar anthology. What I have tried to do is to bring together the ..

A Gloucestershire Lad at Home and Abroad

F. W. Harvey

Most of these poems were written at the Front, and appeared in the Fifth Gloucester Gazette—the first paper ever published from the trenches. The author was then a Lance-Corporal in the 5th Battalion ..

The Bride of Huitzil—An Aztec Legend

Hervey Allen

The Bride of Huitzil—An Aztec Legend is a collection  of poems by Hervey Allen.  The priests on twisted conch-shells blew,    Shouted the market place;    Hatred of ..

Wampum and Old Gold

Hervey Allen

Wampum and Old Gold: a Poem collection is a collection of poems written by Hervey Allen.Under the placid surface of the daysSo seeming clear,Back of the habits of old ways,A quiet fear;The locked..

A Fable for Critics

James Russell Lowell

One word to such readers (judicious and wise) as read books with something behind the mere eyes, of whom in the country, perhaps, there are two, including myself, gentle reader, and you. All the chara..

The Norse King's Bridal

E. M. Smith-Dampier

In these translations from the Danish I have adhered strictly to the metres of the original; this, however, is not the case with those from the Old Norse. The original ballads are not versifications o..

The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan

Charles Abraham Elton

The remains of Hesiod are not alone interesting to the antiquary, as tracing a picture of the rude arts and manners of the ancient Greeks. Hesiod has been translated in Latin hexameters by Nicola..