Poetry

Masham Means Evening

by Dawson Kanina

It is six years since Canadian forces began their long struggle to hold Kandahar province. Ten years since Canada opened its embassy in Kabul and launched Operation ATHENA to establish security in the city....

On Leaves and Flowers and Trees

by Father Ralph OSB Wright

On Leaves and Flowers and Trees is an inspirational, thought-provoking poetry book with poems featuring such topics as the silence of a field of barley, the infinite beauty of a fluttering butterfly, and always,...

Leaves of Water

by Father Ralph OSB Wright

Leaves of Water is an inspirational, thought-provoking poetry book with poems featuring such topics as the calming symphony of rain on the leaves, the silence of the wind and the glory of God.

Fr. Ralph Wright,...

Poems of Peace

by James Allen

James Allen's Poems of Peace is a compilation of thirty six of his finest works including Eolaus, A Lyrical, Dramatic Poem, Practice and Perception, The Inward Purity, The End of Evil, a poem for his daughter...

Tornado

by Ted Lardner

"Tornado is a book of ravishing and precise beauty. Death, said Wallace Stevens, is the mother of beauty, and so it is here; around the loss of a beloved sister in childhood, Ted Lardner has spun a radiant web...

Spotlit Girl

by Kevin Oberlin

"Kevin Oberlin's deft sonnets, like the Texas chanteuse they describe, are lively and picaresque, 'nervy' and 'coy,' and they unreel their story with dazzling speed." --Michael Collier "In sonnets so marvelously...

The Road Not Taken and Other Selected Poems

by Robert Frost

Robert Frost is one of America's most beloved poets. He won four Pulitzer prizes for his poetry and was invited to read his poetry at John F. Kennedy's inauguration. His life was filled with personal tragedy...

The Iliad

by Homer

The Iliad: Join Achilles at the Gates of Troy as he slays Hector to venge the death of Patroclus. Here is a story of love and war, hope and despair, and honor and glory. The major motion picture Helen of Troy...

The Odyssey

by Homer

Journey with Ulysses as he battles to bring his victorious, but decimated, troops home from the Trojan War, dogged by the wrath of the god Poseidon at every turn. Having been away for twenty years, little does...

Idylls of the King

by Lord Tennyson Alfred

In Idylls of the King Tennyson infuses the King Arthur legend with passion and fire. This legendary epic poem brings the Table Round to life. Experience the love affair of Lancelot and Guinevere, join the quest...

A Lover's Complaint

by William Shakespeare

From off a hill whose concave womb reworded A plaintful story from a sist'ring vale, My spirits t'attend this double voice accorded, And down I laid to list the sad-tuned tale, Ere long espied a fickle maid...

A Collection of Comfort

by Helen Steiner Rice

Take heart in the promises of your heavenly Father and experience renewed comfort and encouragement through this priceless collection of inspiring verse by Helen Steiner Rice.

Boone's Dock Review 1.2

by Various Boone's Dock Press Authors & Anthony Sovak

Boone's Dock Review (1.2) is a literary review including short stories and poetry from various authors. The Spring 2012 issue brings together experimental and traditional talent from across the United States....

Taking Brooklyn Bridge

by Stuart Leonard

Marching in a protest brings a poet to life, connecting inner struggle with social struggle, Walt Whitman and redemption

The Hungry Ear: Poems of Food and Drink

by Kevin Young

Food and poetry: in so many ways, a natural pairing, from prayers over bread to street vendor songs. Poetry is said to feed the soul, each poem a delicious morsel. When read aloud, the best poems provide a particular...

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke: Text Classics

by C.J. Dennis & Jack Thompson

The Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, a comic verse novel, was first published in book form in 1915 and sold more than sixty thousand copies in nine editions within a year. By the mid-1970s nearly three hundred...

A Glimpse of Paradise

by Barbara Hardwick

Barbara Hardwick describes this book of her poetry as being 'about the agony and the ecstasy of being at the right place at the wrong time, and the price that must then be paid for the pursuance of love'. The...

Valence: Considering War through Poetry and Theory

by Susan Hawthorne

Valence in chemistry, the number of bonds in an element’s atom in linguistics, the number of arguments controlled by a verbal predicate in psychology, the emotional charge something has In this remarkable...

Twas The Night Before Christmas

by Clement C. Moore

Visit from Santa Claus on Christmas Eve. Santa arrives with his reindeer driven sleigh and a bag of toys to leave to the delight of children.

Love If We Can Stand It

by Bruce F. Kawin

In this collection of his best poems, Bruce F. Kawin explores many aspects of love, from the romantic to the metaphysical and from sex to mourning. The breadth of voice and form is masterful, and the poems are...