Poetry Books
The New Life (La Vita Nuova)
Dante AlighieriThe New Life (La Vita Nuova) is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1295. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse.The..
Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times
Alice Duer MillerAre Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times by Alice Duer Miller.A woman engineer has been dismissed by the Board of Education, under their new rule that women shall not attend high pre..
American Poetry, 1922
Robert FrostRobert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American coll..
Spoon River Anthology
Edgar Lee MastersSpoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free verse poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the r..
The Rose-Jar
Thomas S. JonesThe Rose-Jar is a collection of poems written by Thomas S. Jones. The author desires to thank the editors of Appleton’s Magazine, Everybody’s Magazine, Lippincott’s Magazine, The New York Times, The S..
The Kalevala
AnonymousThe Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology. It is regarded as the national epic of Karelia and Finland and is on..
The Nibelungenlied
AnonymousThe Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem from around 1200 written in Middle High German. Its anonymous poet was likely from the region of Passau...
Additional Poems (1837-1848)
Oliver Wendell HolmesAdditional Poems (1837-1848) is a classic collection of American poetry by Oliver Wendell Holmes. IN the hour of twilight shadows The Pilgrim sire looked out; He thought of the "bloudy Salvages " That..