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1) The Iliad
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Homer's classical account of the war between the Greeks and the Trojans from Agamemnon's visit by the priest Chryses to the burial of Hektor.
3) Poems
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Odes, sonnets, and narratives by John Keats, most often associated with Romanticism in English literature.
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"A reproduction of the 1905 edition of the bestselling Indiana author's poetry collection, featuring historic farm scene illustrations by Will Vawter. First published in 1883, this charming book includes many of James Whitcomb Riley's signature poems, including "Thoughts fer the Discuraged Farmer" and "When the Frost Is on the Punkin." Also graced by noted Brown County artist Will Vawter's folksy illustrations of farm scenes from our past, this Library...
6) The Odyssey
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Ten years have passed since the fall of Troy. The surviving Greek warriors who destroyed that city have returned home. All except Odysseus, whose wife, Penelope, and son, Telemachus, await him. Claiming that Odysseus is dead, a host of suitors have taken up residence in his home, eating up his wealth and trying to persuade Penelope to marry one of them. Penelope steadfastly refuses. Odysseus, in fact, is alive. Having spent seven years as a captive...
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While Homer's existence as a historical person is still a topic of debate, the writings attributed to the name have made their mark not only on Greek history and literature, but upon western civilization itself. Homer's epic poems, The Iliad and The Odyssey, laid the foundation upon which Ancient Greece developed not only its culture, but its societal values, religious beliefs, and practice of warfare as well.
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"The poems of Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892 -- 1950) have been long admired for the lyric beauty that is especially characteristic of her early works. "Renascence," the first of her poems to bring her public acclaim, was written when she was nineteen. Now one of the best-known American poems, it is a fervent and moving account of spiritual rebirth. In 1917, "Renascence" was incorporated into her first volume of poetry, which is reprinted here, complete...
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There’s a lot more stirring in this house than a mouse…
Everyone knows Santa arrives on the rooftop with the clatter of eight tiny reindeer. But did you realize that 2023 is the 200th publication anniversary of Clement Clarke Moore’s famous American poem about Santa coming down the chimney? And now, creative director Sally Veillette has packaged the ultimate version of this beloved rhyme to share with the world.
Consider getting our award-winning...
11) Boer War Lyrics
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Abbey Press
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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This is a Project Gutenberg Edition released 2014.
MOST of the verses in this little volume were conceived and written, if not quite finished, at the time of Cronje's surrender at Paardeberg. A certain doubt, however, as to any message of theirs, though modestly set off by a belief in their polemic and literary value, has, I think now, unduly delayed their advent into the crowded world of print; and, though the present juncture of a heralded, but,...
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William Heinemann
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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A collection of poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne, an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He wrote several novels and collections of poetry such as Poems and Ballads, and contributed to the Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica.
Swinburne wrote about many taboo topics, such as lesbianism, sado-masochism, and anti-theism. His poems have many common motifs, such as the ocean, time, and death. Several historical people are featured...
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White Rose University Press
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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Corbière is a poet who tests language to the limits, dislocating normal syntax, revelling in self-contradictory affirmations, and piling up puns. Combining forceful and precise descriptions of the physical environment, whether his native Brittany or the urban wilderness of Paris, with wittily self-lacerating introspection, he builds a kaleidoscopic view of the world and makes it impossible for us to know where he stands. He simultaneously undermines...
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Shrimpton & Son
Pub. Date
2024
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English
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To have attempted in former times a work of this description, would have seemed, we cannot deny, to savour either of presumption or of idiotcy, or more probably of both. And rightly. But we live in times of progress. The mystery of yesterday is the common-place of to-day; the Bible, which was Newton's oracle, is Professor Huxley's jest-book; and students at the University now lose a class for not being familiar with opinions, which but twenty years...
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Red Door Consulting
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Jocelyn Henry Clive 'Harry' Graham (23 December 1874 – 30 October 1936) was an English writer. He was a successful journalist and later, after distinguished military service, a leading lyricist for operettas and musical comedies, but he is now best remembered as a writer of humorous verse in a style of grotesquerie and black humour.
Graham is best remembered for his series of cheerfully cruel Ruthless Rhymes, first published in 1898 under the pseudonym...
18) Poems
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J. HATCHARD
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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POEMS.—
The Old Fisherman
Lines to Mrs. Radcliffe, on first reading The Mysteries of Udolpho
The Heir
To a Llangollen Rose, the day after it had been given me by Miss Ponsonby
L'Homme de l'Ennui
The Grandfather's Departure
Reflections occasioned by the Death of Friends
To Mrs. T. Fancourt
To a Young Gentleman
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'Thrice lovely Babe'
'What do I love?'
A Sailor's Song
Another
Once more, then farewell!
Henry, on the Departure of his...
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The Ryerson Press
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Amelia Beers Warnock Garvin (1874–1956), who wrote under the pen name Katherine Hale, was a Canadian journalist, musician, poet, critic, and short story writer. Morning in the West is her fourth volume of published poetry, and features themes of nature, motherhood, and friendship.
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Lothrop, Lee & Shepard Co.
Pub. Date
2023
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English
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Evaleen Stein (1863–1923) was an American author of poetry and prose. She wrote eleven volumes of stories and three books of verse. She also translated two volumes of poetry, one from the Japanese and another from Italian. An ardent lover of nature, Stein reflected this sentiment in most of her poems and stories. [Source: Wikipedia] Child Songs of Cheer, because the lines are not accompanied by musical notation, is actually a book of verse for children....
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