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Warrior Poet Wisdom Vol. VII: Fortitude

Gone are the days of swords and shields, knights and paladins. But warriors still walk among us. Their strength and grace is as effective in dealing with today's challenges as it was in olden times. Their intensity and resolve can be applied to every task in our day to day lives, from work to working out. Their patience and focus are essential to living a stress-free life. Their courage and fortitude allow us to seek success and happiness, not simply wait for it as so many others do. Their selflessness and love reveals to us the greatest purpose in life: service to others. Their balance and peace ensures that nothing will ever shake any of our other virtues. All of these elements combine to form the greatest inspirational tool of all: wisdom. Peace + strength + grace + intensity + resolve + patience + fortitude + selflessness + focus + balance + courage + love = wisdom

Sisters In Song; Women Hymn Writers

Leslie Clay

Few people read the credits in their hymnals to learn who wrote the hymns they sing and love. Leslie Clay does. Over one hundred women are featured along with their most loved hymns in Sisters in Song. Learn some of the surprising facts the author has unearthed about the history of many of the most familiar hymn writers. Who knew how important women have been to hymnology?

Reflections

James Elliott Foster

James Elliott Foster gives us over 100 poems and 40 illustrations to describe what he sees and how he feels about the world around him. "Reflections" is a very personal and very unique view of the world, but it also speaks to the human condition…a condition each of us shares with Mr. Foster. As Mr. Foster puts it, "While [each of us] will experience a different combination of moments, phases, and places, I'm hoping my poetry will have meaning to [everyone] – will trigger memories, of the moments, phases, and places that are special in [each reader's life]" Poetry Review

Puncture Wounds

Bruce Whealton

Poems about Vampires, vampirism and related creatures…Jean Jones writes regarding Scott Urban's poems, "how can a mature writer respond to the vampire myth which by its sheer repetition through pop culture has become a cliche in poetry and writing much less movies and T.V. show. It is almost impossible to go into this venue and not walk through trite expressions and empty cliches. What is there new to say about vampires? The connection between sex and death, sex and fear, fear and desire, etc. etc.? Well, thankfully, Scott Urban walks into the Count's castle, so to speak, most especially in "By Way of Reply," where one can almost literally hear "Bela Lugosi is Dead" by Bauhaus, and the quite undead Count writes a letter back to one of his latest victims, the person's blood drippling off his face, as he recounts the sorrows of his life; and in "Lamia," the poor narrator, like an Edgar Allan Poe character, both fears and desires after what will happen to him. Scott Urban writes of Bruce Whealton's work, "Whenever it seems as if the figure of the vampire has been finally laid to rest — truly dead instead of undead — a new take, a fresh interpretation comes along and shakes up the bat-drenched mythos. Anne Rice did it in the 1970s with Interview with a Vampire, Nancy Collins did it in the 1980s with Sunglasses After Dark, and Stephanie Meyer did it in the 2000s with the Twilight series. Nor is the vampire a stranger to the poetic arts; authors as wide-ranging and well-known as John Keats, Charles Baudelaire, and Samuel Taylor Coleridge have all offered us poetic descriptions of life after the first death. Walking straight into this cobwebbed realm is North Carolina's Bruce Whealton. Bruce peels aside the flimsy faÃ§ade of society to reveal the corroded, crumbling underpinnings below. Perhaps not surprisingly, the vampire seems to be supremely adapted to survive in the barely-contained chaos we call modern life. All around us, we see structures and institutions we once thought eternal brought low in less than a day. But those who drain not just blood but souls, as we see in "Shelter" and "Amanda's Eyes," care nothing for the dissolution of civilization; in anything, they welcome the reversion to a more basic, primitive existence. Bruce even looks back in time, in "First Transgression" and "On the Run," to to an Edenic golden age, but to a primal conflict between the forces of evil and humanity's better nature — if we can even claim that much of an advantage over the beasts. Here, in terse, emotion-packed lines, are both the seductive allure and rampant savagery of the vampire, significantly re-invented for our time. Read on — while you still can.

Chaucer's Shorter Poems

Geoffrey Chaucer

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of short poems by Geoffrey Chaucer: The Book of the Duchess The House of Fame The Parliament of Fowles Truth Gentilesse Merciles Beaute Lak of Stedfastnesse

Songs of Childhood (Illustrated)

Walter de la Mare

The book is an edited and illustrated version of the original one and includes 18 or more unique illustrations which are relevant to its content. The poetry of Walter de la Mare sings boldly and beautifully without any of these hedges and condescensions. His work has the honest candor of the border ballads and the fairy tales: as well as unmitigated joys, they are full of the dangers and horrors and sorrows that every child soon knows to be part of the world, however vainly parents try to veil them. A child's curiosity about the forbidden will insist on being satisfied; and better by verse than otherwise. This poetry is also musically astute and demanding; it may surprise and alert the parental reader; and it has its share of archaisms and poeticisms, which, contrary to adult surmise, bemuse and fascinate children. And it must be admitted that it is also relentlessly British; but then, so is much good children's literature.

The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection

Edna St. Vincent

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of books by Edna St. Vincent Millay ARIA DA CAPO A Few Figs from Thistles The Lamp and the Bell Renascence and Other Poems Second April

The Poetry of Arthur Conan Doyle

Arthur Conan Doyle

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of poetry by Arthur Conan Doyle Table Of Contents A Lilt Of The Road Corporal Dick's Promotion Cremona The Farnshire Cup The Passing THE GUARDS CAME THROUGH VICTRIX THOSE OTHERS HAIG IS MOVING THE GUNS IN SUSSEX YPRES THE VOLUNTEER THE NIGHT PATROL THE WRECK ON LOCH McGARRY THE BIGOT THE ATHABASCA TRAIL RAGTIME! CHRISTMAS IN WARTIME THE LAST LAP LINDISFAIRE A PARABLE FATE

The Poetry of William Blake

Уильям Блейк

Compiled in one book, the essential collection of poetry by William Blake Table Of Contents Auguries Of Innocence Samson The Everlasting Gospel The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell The Song Of Los Thel Songs of Innocence Songs of Experience

Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

Poems of Ella Wheeler Wilcox: Passion