18 books like The man from Snowy River
Peacock pie, a book of rhymes
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."
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Down-adown-derry
Reprint of the 1922 ed. published by Holt, New York.
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It's Halloween
Thirteen poems to spice up the holiday that ghouls and ghosts love most. "Prelutsky's Nightmares tamed for beginning readers. They're catchy at the most rudimentary level."--Kirkus Reviews.
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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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Fairy tales
An illustrated collection of four Pushkin stories in verse.
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Marmion
It is a poetry book. Sir Walter Scott’s love of the country induced him, after his marriage in 1797, to settle in a cottage at the pretty village of Lasswade, near Edinburgh. Four years after leaving this district he took Mr. Morritt of Rokeby to see the little dwelling, telling him that, though not worth looking at, ‘it was our first house when newly married, and many a contrivance it had to…
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The song of Hiawatha
From the book:The Song of Hiawatha is based on the legends and stories of many North American Indian tribes, but especially those of the Ojibway Indians of northern Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. They were collected by Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, the reknowned historian, pioneer explorer, and geologist. He was superintendent of Indian affairs for Michigan from 1836 to 1841. Schoolcraft married…
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Poems
Poems: by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq., William Cowper. Poems: by William Cowper, of the Inner Temple, Esq. Cowper, William, 1731-1800. [4],367,[1]p. ; 8⁰. London : printed for J. Johnson, 1782. Sigs. E6, I6 are cancels: p.60, l.3 ends "for ev'ry town" rather than "to minute down". John Newton's preface printed to accompany this edition was suppressed on publication. Subsequent…
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The Night Before Christmas
A well-known poem about an important Christmas Eve visitor.
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The Angel and the Author
The adventures of an author as she confronts her guardian angel.Jerome does a wonderful job of sharing the thoughts and feelings of a young writer in London during the late 19th century.
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Poems
The work of Federico Garcia Lorca, Spain's greatest modern poet, has long been admired for its emotional intensity and metaphorical brilliance. Few poets take us more directly and memorably to what Lorca described as "the dark root of the scream," the terrain of the duende, where inspiration delivers a new poetic reality and "intelligence" discovers its limitations.
For many years, until the…
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Stand by for Mars!
STAND BY FOR MARS! finds the three young "rocketeers" at the Space Academy undergoing the arduous training of Space Cadets. When their tactical training cruise crash lands on Mars, their desperate adventures on the planet of burning deserts and endless canals will make them seasoned veteran spacemen -- if they live long enough for rescue!STAND BY FOR MARS is the first in the Tom Corbet, Space…
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Up the Line
Being a Time Courier was one of the best jobs Judson Daniel Elliott III ever had. It was tricky, though, taking group after group of tourists back to the same historic event, without meeting yourself coming or going. Trickier still was avoiding the temptation to become intimately involved with the past and interfere with events to come. The deterrents for any such actions were frighteningly…
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Poems
Although Rudyard Kipling is chiefly remembered as the author of such classicsas _Kim_ and _The Jungle Book_, he was also a prodigious and widely read writer of verse, and is considered by many to be the poet of the British Empire. His poetry, like his fiction, gives eloquent expression to the lives of unsung men and women, children, and animals. Witty, profound, acerbic, and occasionally savage,…
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The Poems of Emily Dickinson Volume II
Emily Dickinson lived as a recluse in Amherst, Massachusetts, dedicating herself to writing a "letter to the world" - the 1,775 poems left unpublished at her death in 1886. Today Dickinson stands in the front rank of American poets. This Modern Library edition presents the more than four hundred poems that were published between Dickinson's death and 1900. They express her concepts of life and…
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The Hunting of the Snark
A nonsense poem recounting the adventures of the Bellman and his crew and their challenges hunting a Snark.
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