Product Description: A resonant, powerful collection from one of America’s preeminent poets. In Quilting the Black-Eyed Pea, Nikki Giovanni turns her pen to nature and the environment, the might and grace of women, her battle with cancer, the relationships between mothers and daughters, the state of the nation, and more...read more

Product Description: Sophisticated wit and intense emotion, religious fervour and erotic sensuality, delight in lifes pleasures and fascination with death, are all to be found in the paradoxical poetry of John Donne. One of the foremost metaphysical poets, Donnes ingenious metaphors and inspired use of language, has earned him affection and reverence in near equal measure to Shakespeare...read more

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Product Description: For the lime-tree is in blossom, And one small flower has dropped upon my bosom.

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Product Description: DEDICATION Before a midnight breaks in storm, Or herded sea in wrath, Ye know what wavering gusts inform The greater tempestspath Till the loosed wind Drive allfrom mind, Except Distress, which, so will prophets cry, Oercame them, houseless,from the unhmting sky...read more

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Product Description: Alfred Lord Tennyson was a 19th century Poet Laureate in the United Kingdom who is recognized as one of the greatest poets of modern times. A few of his more famous poems are "The Charge of the Light Brigade", "Tears, idle tears" and "Crossing the Bar"...read more

Product Description: This is a pre-1923 historical reproduction that was curated for quality. Quality assurance was conducted on each of these books in an attempt to remove books with imperfections introduced by the digitization process. Though we have made best efforts - the books may have occasional errors that do not impede the reading experience...read more

Product Description: We two stood there with never a third, But each by each, as each knew well: The sights we saw and the sounds we heard, The lights and the shades made up a spell Till the trouble grew and stirred.

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Product Description: Let other poets raise a fracas 'Bout vines, an' wines, an' drucken Bacchus, An' crabbit names an' stories wrack us, An' grate our lug: I sing the juice Scotch bear can mak us, In glass or jug.--from "Scotch Drink" Robert Burns, the son of a tenant farmer in Ayshire, Scotland, endured great hardship before emerging as a poet and songwriter in his native dialect, as well as in English...read more

Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: ERROR AND LOSS UPON an eve I sat me down and wept, Because the world to me seemed nowise good; Still autumn was it, and the meadows slept, The misty hills dreamed, and the silent wood Seemed listening to the sorrow of my mood : I knew not if the earth with me did grieve, Or if it mocked my grief that bitter eve. Then 'twixt my tears a maiden did I see, Who drew anigh me on the leaf-strewn grass, Then stood and gazed upon me pitifully With grief-worn eyes, until my woe did pass From me to her, and tearless now I was, And she mid tears was asking me of one She long had sought unaided and alone. I knew not of him, and she turned away Into the dark wood, and my own great pain Still held me there, till dark had slain the day, And perished at the grey dawn's hand again; Then from the wood a voice cried : " Ah, in vain, In vain I seek thee, O thou bitter-sweet! In what lone land are set thy longed-for feet ? " Then I looked up, and lo, a man there came From midst the trees, and stood regarding me Until my tears were dried for very shame; Then he cried out: " O mourner, where is she Whom I have sought o'er every land and sea ? I love her and she loveth me, and still We meet no more than green hill meeteth hill." With that he passed on sadly, and I knew That these had met and missed in the dark night, Blinded by blindness of the world untrue, That hideth love and maketh wrong of right. Then midst my pity for their lost delight, Yet more with barren longing I grew weak, Yet more I mourned that I had none to seek. THE HALL AND THE WOOD TWAS in the water-dwindling tide When July days were done, Sir Rafe of Greenhowes 'gan to ride In the ear...

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Product Description: This year marks the centenary of "Lift Every Voice and Sing", James Weldon Johnson's most famous lyric, which is now embraced as the Negro National Anthem. In celebration, this Penguin original collects all the poems from Johnson's published works -- Fifty Years and Other Poems (1917), God's Trombones (1927), and Saint Peter Relates an Incident of the Resurrection Day (1935) -- along with a number of previously unpublished poems...read more

A modern prose version of the classical epic relating the wanderings and homecoming of a Greek warrior and hero

An addition to the Poetry for Young People series profiles the eighteenth century artist and poet William Blake and his works that often use simple language and animal metaphors that young readers can appreciate. 30,000 first printing.

This new translation by Tom Bishop of Ovid's 'Amores' closely follows the movement and metre of Ovid's verse, rendering his world of love, licentiousness and conspiracy so as to catch Ovid's raciness. His introduction sets the work in historical context.

Product Description: This collection of medieval poems is full of the same virility, elegiac power, eroticism, and satire that colored the life of celebrated Scottish poet William Dunbar. An introduction and extensive notes on his life and works, including his career as a priest and his royal employment, are also included...read more

One of the leading American poets offers a new collection of poems that plumbs the ordinary American experience for spiritual insights, wit, and historical relevance. Reprint.

Product Description: This book has 11 stories and 6 poems on the "adventure" theme that Kipling (who was a Commissioner of the Boy Scouts in England) considered inspirational for Scouts.

Product Description: Nearly one-half of the poems by the popular Irish poet Patrick Kavanagh (1904-67) have religious themes, images, or allusions. Here Fr. Tom Stack has collected all of these 138 poems and includes extensive introductions and commentaries about them...read more

An inventive new collection of poetry by the author of Figurehead offers a series of playful and profound meditations on the reflective mind and the nature of perception, as well as observations on the passage of time as it is marked by the play of light and shadow across a surface. Reprint.