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Invocation
In White April
In five section parts, Golden Windows, Sonnets for Weeping, Of Mariners, White Glamour, and Overtones, Harold Vinal writes about deep feeli…
Reading a Letter
In New Poems
This is an exceptional collection of superb and introspectively distinct poems from the pen of master author D. H. Lawrence. Never failing t…
The Priestly Prerogative
In The Son of the Wolf
The Son of the Wolf is Jack London's first published collection of stories and features tales chronicling the harsh realities of living in t…
6 - Berenice
In Six Creepy Stories by Edgar Allan Poe
Edgar Allan Poe has the ability to manipulate language so well that he could engage my imagination and get me terrified even though little w…
Simon the Cyrenian Speaks
In Color
Countee Cullen’s poetry in Color contemplates Black Americans’ fractured sense of self—at once spiritually tied to homelands where their anc…
Somebody by Anonymous
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 2: Love (Part 1)
The second of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, incl…
Preface; Chapter One - A General View
In The Ghosts of Piccadilly
Nothing spooky or supernatural, but a very personal gathering of gossip, letters, and fragments of biography of famous people who have lived…
Selected works
In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 01
The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…
The Shaving of Murdoch
In The Book of Irish Poetry, part II
A collection of Irish poetry, edited and largely translated by Alfred Perceval Graves. This is the second and final part of the book. - Sum…
Understanding
In Day Dreams
Published in 1923, Day Dreams is a collection of poems written by Hollywood screen icon Rudolph Valentino. Authored during Valentino’s court…
Johnson's Hints for the Life of Pope
In Curiosities of Literature, Vol. 2
This is the second volume of the collected Curiosities of Literature by Isaac D'Israeli. As in volume one, D'Isreali again takes us on a tou…
Sorrow by Ner Gardiner
In Athenaeum Souvenir
The Manchester Athenaeum was founded in 1837 as a society for the "advancement and diffusion of knowledge". This short collection …
A Question
In Oak and Ivy
"Oak and Ivy" is Paul Laurence Dunbar's first collection of poetry. He was by far the most successful Black American to write poet…
Poe's Cottage at Fordham by John Henry Boner
In The World's Best Poetry, Volume 7: Descriptive and Narrative (Part 1)
The seventh of ten volumes of poetry edited by Canadian poet laureate Bliss Carman (1861-1929). This collection, the first of two parts, con…
Blannerhasset, the Lord of the Isle, by T. B. Read
In The Rover Vol. 01 No. 23
"The Rover: A weekly magazine of tales, poetry and engravings, original and selected" was a magazine started in 1843 by Seba Smith…
The Lord
In Selected Poems
Effie Lee Newsome was a poet from Philadelphia who was also the editor of ‘The Little Page’, a column for children in The Crisis. These poem…
Pete and Pete Chapter 2
In Loup-garou!
A book of short stories by Eden Phillpotts, all involving something of the supernatural. - Summary by Ann Boulais
The Raven
In Short Poetry Collection 064
Discover a diverse array of voices in the Short Poetry Collection, featuring 20 public-domain poems selected and narrated by dedicated Libri…
Letter 3 The Vicar, The Curate, &c
In The Borough
English village life and villagers in the east of England in the late 1700’s and early 1800s—is the subject of The Borough. George Crabbe …
Guilt's Queries and Truth's Replies by Harrison
In Prison Poetry
A collection of poetry written in the late 1800's by inmates of the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. - Summary by mleigh