18 books like Poems
Rev. Calvin Fairbank during slavery times
This riveting autobiography tells the tales of abolitionist Reverend Calvin Fairbank, who was imprisoned for 17 years for his anti-slavery activities.
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A Shropshire lad
First published in 1896, this is Housman's first and most widely known collection of poems. Dismal and fatalistic, Housman speaks of the cruelty of life. In contrast to the dreary subject matter, the poetry itself is brisk and lively. Considered by many to be among the finest works of modern British poetry.
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Emerson
Ralph Waldo Emerson is one of the preeminent figures of the American literature. The leading expositor of the transcendentalist movement, he helped shape modern American Philosophy and religion, and his legacy continued through Thoreau, Melville, Whitman, and Dickinson.
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Life and times of Frederick Douglass
Life and Times of Frederick Douglass is Frederick Douglass'
third autobiography, published in 1881, revised in 1892. The emancipation of
American Slaves during and following the Civil War allowed Douglass to go into
greater specifics of both his life as as slave and his escape from slavery in
this volume than he could in his two previous autobiographies (which would have
put both himself and…
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Drum-taps
"Walt Whitman worked as a nurse in an army hospital during the Civil War and published Drum-Taps, his war poems, as the war was coming to an end. Later, the book came out in an expanded form, including 'When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd,' Whitman's passionate elegy for Lincoln. The most moving and enduring poetry to emerge from America's most tragic conflict, Drum-Taps also helped to…
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[Some historical account of Guinea]
Some Historical Account of Guinea
Anthony Benezet, French-born American abolitionist and educator (1713 – 1784)
This ebook presents «Some Historical Account of Guinea», from Anthony Benezet. A dynamic table of contents enables to jump directly to the chapter selected.
Table of Contents
About This Book
Introduction
Chapter I
Chapter Ii
Chapter Iii
Chapter Iv
Chapter V
Chapter Vi
Chapter…
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My bondage and my freedom
Autobiography of the nineteenth-century abolitionist who advocated the full freedom of the blacks.
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Poems
Interspersed are passages from the author's "Essays" and "Journal".
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Day of doom
"The Day of Doom: or, A Poetical Description of the Great and Last Judgment" is a religious poem by clergyman Michael Wigglesworth that became a best-selling classic in Puritan New England for a century after it was published in 1662 by Samuel Green and Marmaduke Johnson. The poem describes the Day of Judgment, on which a vengeful God judges and sentences all men, going into detail as to the…
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Ariel
"A restored edition of Sylvia Plath's collection of poems that were published after her death that restores the selection and arrangement of the poems as Plath left them at the point of her death."
Upon the publication of her posthumous volume of poetry, Ariel, in the mid-1960s, Sylvia Plath became a household name. Readers may be surprised to learn that the draft of Ariel left behind by Sylvia…
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Tales of a wayside inn
Mostly a collection of story-telling poems told by a group of friends in a tavern late one night. "Tales" includes the famous Paul Revere's ride, together with poems of many tales, countries and styles.
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Poems
A brief profile of the nineteenth century English poet, Alfred Tennyson, accompanies selections from some of his best known works.
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The Song of Hiawatha and Other Poems
Poetry and prose written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
List of Poems:
The song of Hiawatha
Evangeline
The courtship of Miles Standish
The village blacksmith
A Psalm of life
The rainy day
The light of stars
God's acre
The reaper and the flowers
The wreck of the Hesperus
The arrow and the song
Footsteps of angels
Endymion
The arsenal at Springfield
In the churchyard at Cambridge
The belfry of…
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Les contemplations
Les Contemplations est un recueil de poésie de Victor Hugo, publié en 1856. Il est composé de 158 poèmes rassemblés en six livres. La plupart de ces poèmes ont été écrits entre 1841 et 1855, mais les poèmes les plus anciens de ce recueil datent de 1830. Les Contemplations est un recueil du souvenir, de l’amour, de la joie mais aussi de la mort, du deuil et même d'une certaine foi mystique. Le…
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Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell
Poems by Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell was a volume of poetry published jointly by the three Brontë sisters,  Charlotte,  Emily and Anne in 1846 (see 1846 in poetry), and their first work to ever go in print. To evade contemporary prejudice against female writers, the Brontë sisters adopted androgynous first names. All three retained the…
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The Complete Poetical Works
The eerie tales of Edgar Allan Poe remain among the most brilliant, enduring, and influencial works in American literature. But Poe is also the author of some of the most haunting poetry ever written–poems of love, death and loneliness that have lost none of their power to enthrall in this unique Signet Classic edition.
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A Child's Garden of Verses
Rediscover the delight and innocence of childhood in these classic poems from celebrated author, Robert Louis Stevenson. From make-believe to climbing trees, bedtime stories to morning play and favourite cousins to beloved mothers. Here is a very special collection to be treasured forever.
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Poems
An illustrated collection of thirty-two popular poems by Robert Louis Stevenson, mostly from "A Child's Garden of Verses." Includes an introduction about the poet's life and work.
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