18 books like Poems

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Peacock pie, a book of rhymes Walter De la Mare · 1913 · 120p · ≈ 4h · Challenging Peacock Pie presents an extensive selection of de la Mare's best poetry, in thematically themes sections such as are "Up and Down," "Boys and Girls," "Three Queer Tales," "Places and People," "Beasts," "Witches and Fairies," "Earth and Air," and "Songs." Shares: Children's poetry, English poetry, Poetry

The complete works of Robert Browning Volume XVI Robert Browning · 1800 · ★ 4.3 · 340p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Nineteen poems by Robert Browning include "My Last Duchess," "Porphyria's Lover," "Fra Lippo Lippi," and "Love among the Ruins." Shares: Works by individual poets: 19th century, Children's poetry, English, English poetry

Down-adown-derry Walter De la Mare · 1922 · 195p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Reprint of the 1922 ed. published by Holt, New York. Shares: Children's poetry, English poetry, Poetry

D.H. Lawrence D. H. Lawrence · 1928 · 30p · ≈ 1h · Challenging A collection of poems on themes of animals, people, celebration and condemnation, and love, by a prolific English poet, novelist, critic, travel writer, playwright, and painter. Shares: Children's poetry, English Authors, English poetry, Poetry

The shepherd's calendar Clare, John · 1827 · 139p · ≈ 4h · Challenging This groundbreaking edition of the 'Peasant Poet' presents the complete works of John Clare for the first time in publishing history. The Delphi Poets Series offers readers the works of literature's finest poets, with superior formatting, with beautiful illustrations and the usual Delphi bonus material. (Version 1) Beautifully illustrated with images relating to Clare's life and works Concise… Shares: Works by individual poets: 19th century, English, Poetry

Poetical works of Robert Bridges Robert Seymour Bridges · 1898 · ★ 3.7 · 484p · ≈ 16h · Challenging Each section preceded by a bibliographical note. Second edition. Prometheus the firegiver, a mask in the Greek manner.--Demeter, a mask.--Eros and psyche.--The growth of love.--Shorter poems, --New poems, --Later poems.--Poems in classical prosody.--October, and other poems.--New verse.--Two pieces written after the war.--Index of titles and first lines. Shares: English poetry, Poetry

Don Juan Lord Byron · 1819 · ★ 3.6 · 193p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Italy. Following a dramatic shipwreck, his exploits take him to Greece, where he is sold as a slave, and to Russia, where he becomes a favourite of the Empress Catherine who sends him on to England. Written entirely in… Shares: English poetry, Poetry

Poems George Meredith · 1851 · 623p · ≈ 20h · Demanding This is a poem book. Aurelius prudentius clemens, the greatest of the Latin Christian poets, was born in the year 348 during the consulship of Salia and Philip. The place of his birth is not known with certainty. Three cities of Hither Spain are designated by him as his own: Tarragona, Saragossa, and Calahorra. Partisans of each have claimed him as a native son with convincing arguments. In the… Shares: English poetry, Poetry

Poems William Blake · 1783 · ★ 3.9 · 61p · ≈ 2h · Demanding William Blake is one of England’s most fascinating writers; he was not only a groundbreaking poet, but also a painter, engraver, radical, and mystic. Although Blake was dismissed as an eccentric by his contemporaries, his powerful and richly symbolic poetry has been a fertile source of inspiration to the many writers and artists who have followed in his footsteps. In this collection Patti Smith… Shares: Collected works, Children's poetry, English poetry, Poetry

Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson · 1785 · 265p · ≈ 8h · Demanding A one†‘volume collection of the prose and poetry of eighteenth†‘century Britain's pre†‘eminent lexicographer, critic, biographer, and poet Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson was eighteenth†‘century Britain’s preeminent man of letters, and his influence endures to this day. He excelled as a moral and literary critic, biographer, lexicographer, and poet. This anthology, designed to make Johnson’s… Shares: English, English poetry, Poetry, Short Stories

Poems D. H. Lawrence · 1913 · 79p · ≈ 2h · Challenging A collection of short poems, mainly on themes suggested by the natural world. Shares: Children's poetry, English Authors, English poetry, Poetry

The man from Snowy River Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson · 1900 · ★ 4.0 · 133p · ≈ 4h · Challenging In the ballads and poetry of Banjo Paterson are captured the spirit of the Australian Outback, and the essences of the bushmen and women who pioneered it. The vast distances, the droughts, the floods, the flies, the heat ... and the harsh and beautiful places of Outback Australia were brought to the city people of the late 1880's through the writings of Andrew Barton Paterson.A true folk poet, a… Shares: Children's poetry, Poetry

Elegy written in a country churchyard Thomas Gray · 1751 · 25p · ≈ 50m · Demanding The FICTION & PROSE LITERATURE collection includes books from the British Library digitised by Microsoft. The collection provides readers with a perspective of the world from some of the 18th and 19th century’s most talented writers. Written for a range of audiences, these works are a treasure for any curious reader looking to see the world through the eyes of ages past. Beyond the main body of… Shares: English poetry, Poetry

A Child's Garden of Verses Robert Louis Stevenson · 1885 · ★ 4.3 · 130p · ≈ 4h · Challenging 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. Shares: Children's poetry, English, English poetry, Poetry

Poems by John Keats John Keats · 1800 · ★ 4.1 · 302p · ≈ 10h · Challenging Twenty-five poems by one of the English Romantic poets of the early nineteenth century. Shares: Collected works, English poetry, Poetry, Biography & Memoir

The Barrack-Room Ballads of Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling · 1892 · 80p · ≈ 2h · Challenging For the modern reader of Kipling's Barrack-Room Ballads - among the most enduringly popular poems ever published in England - some explanation of their contemporary expressions and allusions and their military context is necessary if he is to appreciate them in their full glory. John Whitehead, critic and biographer who himself served with the Indian Army in Burma, has provided this in full… Shares: Collected works, English poetry, Poetry

Departmental ditties and other verses Rudyard Kipling · 1800 · 94p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Departmental Ditties and other verses, Rudyard Kipling. TEI XML version of http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/k/kipling/rudyard/ditties/ . Shares: English poetry, Poetry

Tin House Holly MacArthur · 2008 · ★ 3.8 · 224p · ≈ 7h · Moderate Tin House is an American literary magazine and book publisher based in Portland, Oregon, and New York City. Shares: Collected works, Short Stories

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