Poetry

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.

Poems

by Emily Dickinson, Mabel Loomis Todd & T. W. Higginson

Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) was an eccentric, reclusive poet, though born to a family of good standing within their Massachusetts community. She had fewer than a dozen poems published in her lifetime, though...

Songs of Innocence and Experience

by William Blake

Songs of Innocence and of Experience compiles two contrasting but directly related books of poetry by William Blake. Songs of Innocence honors and praises the natural world, the natural innocence of children...

The Hunting of the Snark

by Lewis Carroll

The nonsensical poem The Hunting of the Snark (An Agony in Eight Fits) was written by Lewis Carroll in 1874 and published in 1876. Describing "with infinite humor the impossible voyage of an improbable crew...

Odes and Sonnets

by Clark Ashton Smith

Long before the association with "Weird Tales" magazine and H.P. Lovecraft that led to his enduring fame, Clark Ashton Smith was a well-regarded regional poet whose tastes ran to the romantic and the fantastic....

Beowulf

by Francis B. Gummere

Beowulf is the earliest surviving poem in Old English. Although the authorship is anonymous it is believed to have been written before the 10th century AD. The only extant European manuscript of the Beowulf...

The Sonnets and Other Poems

by William Shakespeare, Jonathan Bate & Eric Rasmussen

Shakespeare became famous as a dazzling poet before most people even knew that he wrote plays. His sonnets are the English language’s most extraordinary anatomy of love in all its dimensions–desire and despair,...

A Collection of Joy

by Helen Steiner Rice

Delight in the gifts of your heavenly Father and experience daily joy through this priceless collection of inspiring verse by Helen Steiner Rice.

An Essay on Criticism

by Alexander Pope

Despite its somewhat dry title, this text is not a musty prose dissection of literary criticism. Instead, the piece takes the shape of a long poem in which Pope, at the very peak of his powers, takes merciless...

Poegles

by Justin Hendrix

Poegles: A Short History and Collection is a book of poetry created by rearranging the sentences generated by Internet search engines. A poegle is a poem that you make from other people's words (“Poemâ€...

Mothers and Daughters: A Poetry Celebration

by June Cotner

Celebrate the life passages shared only between mothers and daughters in this uniquely moving collection.

Mothers and Daughters reveals the full breadth and depth of the mother-daughter bond as only poetry...

Prime

by Miranda Pearson

Gritty and darkly humorous, Pearson's verses address modern myths head-on. British humour and psychoanalytic and feminist theory meet under the poet's steady gaze.

The Alchemy of Happiness

by Marilyn Bowering

Bowering delivers poems that blend of personalities, times, and places that add up to an overall substance she sees as happiness.

The Madman

by Kahlil Gibran

The poetry of Kahlil Gibran (1883 - 1931), a Lebanese-American writer, is the third best-selling in the world, after Shakespeare and Laozi. Much of his work deals with Christianity and spiritual love, and is...

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

by Omar Khayyam

Edward FitzGerald gave the title The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam to his translation of poetry attributed to the Persian poet, astronomer and mathematician Omar Khayyam (1048-1123). The word "Rubaiyat" means quatrains...

Orlando Furioso

by Lodovico Ariosto

Orlando Furioso ("The Frenzy of Orlando", more literally "Mad Orlando"; in Italian furioso is seldom capitalized) is an Italian romantic epic by Ludovico Ariosto which has exerted a wide influence on later culture....

The Iliad

by Homer

An epic tale of love and betrayal, war and hope The Iliad is the first of two legendary ancient poems attributed to the Greek bard Homer. Typically dated between the 8th and 7th centuries BC it is believed by...

The Light of Asia

by Edwin Arnold

The Light of Asia, subtitled The Great Renunciation, weaves through its poetic verses the life and philosophy of Prince Siddhartha Gautama who attained enlightenment under the bodhi tree and became the Buddha....

Chimney And Co

by Pamela Douglas

CHIMNEY is a much loved FAMILY CAT who has chosen to tell her own story in poetic form as only a cat can. She charts her life from mischievous kittenhood to thoughtful maturity in the company of two glorious...

The Aeneid

by Virgil

Aeneas appears in The Illiad in vague snatches and starts as a traveling warrior of great piety who was loosely connected to the foundation of Rome. Virgil weaves these fragments into a powerful myth about the...