18 books like Poems
Gitanjali (song offerings)
Verse rendering in Sanskrit with English translation.
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Songs of innocence and of experience
This volume of verse by the great English poet and artist William Blake contains two collections originally published separately in 1789 and 1784. This 1925 edition was edited by British literature professor George H. Cowling.
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Irish melodies
I’ve always admired how Confucius claimed he was not very original and liked to learn from tradition. “I am not one who was born in the possession of knowledge; I am one who is fond of antiquity and earnest in seeking it there.” It seemed telling that there were no copies of “Moore’s Melodies” in the bookshops. The past was forgotten. But the Internet soon sorted that. Thanks to Richard Kopp’s…
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Poems
The aim of this edition is to present all textual evidence of Wordsworth's work on the lyric and shorter narrative poems he composed between 1800 and 1807, the primary fruits of which appeared in 1807 under the title Poems in Two Volumes. - Preface.
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Yeats's Autobiography
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Cúirt an Mheadhon Oidhche
J'avais bu ses paroles comme un élixir. Et quand elle se tut, j'eus des palpitations. Je fus pris de vertige et d'étourdissements. je crus flotter en l'air, sur le point de tomber. Je voyais tout tourner, les têtes et les murs. Et l'écho de sa voix et les paroles prononcées semblaient tourner aussi et résonner dans tous les coins.
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Poems
From the book:Not that I love thy children, whose dull eyesSee nothing save their own unlovely woe,Whose minds know nothing, nothing care to know, -But that the roar of thy Democracies,Thy reigns of Terror, thy great Anarchies,Mirror my wildest passions like the seaAnd give my rage a brother -! Liberty!For this sake only do thy dissonant criesDelight my discreet soul, else might all kingsBy…
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Exiles
Exiles by James Joyce is a modernist play that explores themes of love, betrayal, and artistic integrity. The drama revolves around an Irish writer and his complex relationships with his wife and a friend. Reflecting autobiographical elements, the play delves into psychological conflict and emotional ambiguity with Joyce’s characteristic depth and nuance.
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Milton's Poems
John Milton (9 December 1608 – 8 November 1674) was an English poet and intellectual. His 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost, written in blank verse and including over ten chapters, was written in a time of immense religious flux and political upheaval. It addressed the fall of man, including the temptation of Adam and Eve by the fallen angel Satan and God's expulsion of them from the Garden of Eden.…
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Poems
Chaucer's Shorter Poems consists of several of the lesser known works by Geoffrey Chaucer, author of The Canterbury Tales:
The Book of the Duchess
The House of Fame
The Parliament of Fowles
Truth
Gentilesse
Merciles Beaute
Lak of Stedfastnesse
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Proserpine & Midas
Mary Shelley was an English writer best known for the classic gothic novel Frankenstein which has been adapted into film many times.  This edition of Proserpine & Midas includes a table of contents. 
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Poetical works of Robert Bridges
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.
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Don Juan
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…
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Poems
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…
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Poems
Introduces the life of author Samuel Taylor Coleridge and presents a sample of his poetry, including complete works and excerpts, with a brief, explanatory introduction to each.
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Sonnets from the Portuguese
"I love your verse with all my heart, dear Miss Barrett...and I love you too," Robert Browning wrote in January of 1845, thus initiating the most celebrated literary correspondence of the nineteenth century. For the next twenty months, he and the world-renowned poet Elizabeth Barrett exchanged letters and confidences.
During their courtship, Elizabeth privately wrote a series of forty-four…
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Essays
The Victorian English poet and essayist Matthew Arnold was the archetypal sage writer, noted for his classical attacks on the tastes and manners of his time. His poetry is characterised by its classically poised, serene and grand style, which is often intimate, personal, full of romantic regret and nostalgic in tone. Arnold’s incisive essays chastised and instructed the reader on contemporary…
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Moments of vision
ix, 443 p. ; 23 cm
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