This collection of poems by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow includes some of his most memorable and popular verse. In «Evangeline», arguably his most famous work, we have the story of an Acadian girl who searches for her lost love Gabriel during the time of the Great Upheaval. «Evangeline and Other Selected Poems» is altogether a collection of thirty-nine poems including an abridged selection from «The Song of Hiawatha».
"Chicago Poems" is an early collection of poems by American poet Carl Sandburg. This little volume includes the following poems: Chicago, Sketch, Masses, Lost, The Harbor, They Will Say, Mill-Doors, Halsted Street Car, Clark Street Bridge, Passers-by, The Walking Man of Rodin, Subway, The Shovel Man, A Teamster's Farewell, Fish Crier, Picnic Boat, Happiness, Muckers, Blacklisted, Graceland, Child of the Romans, The Right to Grief, Mag, Onion Days, Population Drifts, Cripple, A Fence, Anna Imroth, Working Girls, Mamie, Personality, Cumulatives, To Certain Journeymen, Chamfort, Limited., The Has-Been, In a Back Alley, A Coin, Dynamiter, Ice Handler, Jack, Fellow Citizens, Nigger, Two Neighbors, Style, To Beachey—1912, Under a Hat Rim, In a Breath, Bath, Bronzes, Dunes, On the Way, Ready to Kill, To a Contemporary Bunkshooter, Skyscraper, Fog, Pool, Jan Kubelik, Choose, Crimson, Whitelight, Flux, Kin, White Shoulders, Losses, Troths, Killers, Among the Red Guns, Iron, Murmurings in a Field Hospital, Statistics, Fight, Buttons, And They Obey, Jaws, Salvage, Wars, The Road and the End, Choices, Graves, Aztec Mask, Momus, The Answer, To a Dead Man, Under, A Sphinx, Who Am I?, Our Prayer of Thanks, At a Window, Under the Harvest Moon, The Great Hunt, Monotone, Joy, Shirt, Aztec, Two, Back Yard, On the Breakwater, Mask, Pearl Fog, I Sang, Follies, June, Nocturne in a Deserted Brickyard, Hydrangeas, Theme in Yellow, Between Two Hills, Last Answers, Window, Young Sea, Bones, Pals, Child, Poppies, Child Moon, Margaret, Poems Done on a Late Night Car, It Is Much, Trafficker, Harrison Street Court, Soiled Dove, Jungheimer's, Gone, Dreams in the Dusk, Docks, All Day Long, Waiting, From the Shore, Uplands in May, A Dream Girl, The Plowboy, Broadway, Old Woman, The Noon Hour, 'Boes, Under a Telephone Pole, I Am the People, the Mob, Government, Languages, Letters to Dead Imagists, Sheep, The Red Son, The Mist, The Junk Man, Silver Nails, and Gypsy.
Collected together in this collection are the most famous of all the poems written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This includes the following: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, The Eolian Harp, Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement, This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, Frost at Midnight, Fears in Solitude, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode, The Pains of Sleep, and To William Wordsworth. Written between 1795 and 1807 these poems represent the best of Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
Emily Brontë (1818-1848), of the well-known Brontë family, is best known for her novel «Wuthering Heights», which has been deemed a classic of English literature. She wrote two complete notebooks of poetry by 1844, which were soon discovered by her sister, Charlotte. At Charlotte's urging, Emily began publishing the poems in collaborative works with her two sisters under the pseudonyms Acton, Ellis and Currer Bell. Emily's poems were praised by critics for their power and intellect, although the collections did not sell well upon their publication. Because she wrote entirely for her own satisfaction, without desire for fame or posterity, Emily Brontë's poetry displays a private, instinctive style. The genuine nature of her words, which were inspired by the traditions of her Romantic predecessors, expresses a true artistic vision of energy, life and the soul from an intensely introspective point of view.
D. H. Lawrence was an English writer who, unfortunately, only truly became accepted as a literary genius after his death in 1930. While he was best known for his novels and short stories like «Lady Chatterly's Lover,» «Sons and Lovers,» and «The Captain's Doll,» Lawrence was also an adept poet who wrote over 800 poems during his lifetime. At the beginning of his career, his poems were infused with pathetic fallacy and continual personification of flora and fauna. Like many of the Georgian poets, Lawrence's style was overly verbose and archaic, meant as a tribute to the previous Georgian period. However, the tragedy of World War I changed Lawrence's style dramatically. He wanted to break free from the overused stereotypes of the time and instead focus on finding new and more eloquent ways of expressing poetry. The author began experimenting with free verse and often revised past works in order to strip away the dated tropes he used as a less experienced writer. While Lawrence wrote during the Modernist period, his poems do not exhibit the same style as the famous Modern poets. He celebrated impulses and felt that each poem had to be deeply personal to its author. The collection of «Selected Poems» collects together the poems from the following volumes: «Love and Other Poems,» «Amores,» «Look! We Have Come Through!,» «New Poems,» «Bay,» and «Tortoises.»
The 14th century poet Hafiz is one of the most celebrated Persian lyric poets and is still highly regarded to this day. His poems explore the themes of love, the celebration of wine, and exposing the hypocrisy of those who hold themselves out as examples of moral rectitude. This collection includes a selection of forty-three poems translated by Gertrude Lowthian Bell and an introduction to Hafiz and his poems by the translator.
"A Boy's Will and North of Boston" is a collection of two early volumes of poetry by Robert Frost. «A Boy's Will» was first published in 1913 with «North of Boston» being first published the following year in 1914. Poetry readers will delight in this collection of poems from one of the great poets of the twentieth century.
Nancy Petrey brings her poetry and music together as a fragrant offering to the LORD! And then she shares it with us with an additional short devotion that will not only bring out your Bible for further study but also encourage you to keep notes (even a journal!) to rejoice in what God is saying and doing in your life. "Most importantly, The Honeycomb is Waiting will cause you to fall more deeply in love with Jesus—and an added bonus, the more you experience Nancy Petrey’s personality, you will also fall in love with her. You will discover she is charming and witty, yet able to bring you to accepting some hard-hitting truth."
Tabitha Edwards-Walton presents her third book of poetry, deftly applying her skill at painting pictures of our emotions into words. What is love? How does it manifest with children? With whoever is the mother and father in your life? How do we experience it when it is miraculous? When it is tragic? When it is dancing-down-the-street happy or weep-into-our-pillow sad? Maybe Tabitha has put our thoughts and feelings into words.
Tabitha Edwards-Walton brings us another serving of her wonderful poetry. This time she ushers us into the emotions and experiences of life.