Single Author Collections
Beautiful Stories from Shakespeare - version 2
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E. Nesbit and William Shakespeare
Adaptations of Shakespearian plays for young readers. - Summary by ShrimpPhish
Stray Pebbles From The Shores Of Thought
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Elizabeth Porter Gould
A collection of poetry by the Boston poetess. Sections are nature, love, miscellaneous, sonnets and 'for my nieces and nephews'. - Summary b…
Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches
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Maurice Baring
In this urbane collection of short stories by Maurice Baring, characters ranging from legendary figures to schoolboys find themselves in ste…
English Stornelli
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Augusta Webster
In this sequence Augusta Webster experimented with eight-line verses grouped thematically by the seasons of the year. These poems also explo…
Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
Here is a bitterly sarcastic poem wherein a jilted Lord Byron spits out his distain for his estranged wife, Lady Byron, laying a curse upon …
Rhymes of a Red Cross Man
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Robert W. Service
Robert Service was born in Lancashire, England, but at age 21 moved to Canada and eventually ended up in the Yukon during the gold rush. Hi…
Selected Poems
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Robert Frost
These are poems selected by the publisher, Henry Holt & Company reprinted from "Mountain Interval" "North of Boston"…
Over Here and Over There
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Harry Zody
In publishing this book I have no intention whatsoever to offer a work of great literary value. As such it would undoubtedly be a failure, …
Summer of Love
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Joyce Kilmer
Joyce KIlmer may yet be an obscure poet had he not had his poem, Trees, published in Poetry in 1913. But, this book precedes that, and show…
Infelicia
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Adah Isaacs Menken
Adah Isaacs Menken's short life was full and eventful. Probably born in the American South, she travelled, wrote journalism, became famous a…
The Sirens Three -- Queen Summer
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Walter Crane
Walter Crane (1845 - 1915) was a renowned artist and the illustrator of numerous books, among them "The Happy Prince and Other Stories&…
The Cruise of the "Scandal", and other stories
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Victor Bridges
Collection of short stories by prolific British fantasy writer, Victor Bridges. Stories include A Bit of Old Chelsea and The Bronze-Haired G…
The Complete Poems of Francis Ledwidge
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Francis Ledwidge
Francis Ledwidge, Irish poet, served in an Irish battalion ("The Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers") of the British Army during World W…
The Wind Among the Reeds (Version 2)
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William Butler Yeats
The Wind Among the Reeds was first published in 1899 and features short, personal lyrics on subjects such as Irish legends and personal rela…
Song of Myself
Read by Phil Benson
Walt Whitman
Walt Whitman's best known poem - a vast and multitudinous celebration of American life in which the 'myself' of the title becomes at one wit…
Selections from Harris's Cabinet
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William Roscoe
In the early 1800s, London publisher John Harris began producing small books for children that were designed not to instruct, but to enterta…
Slabs of the Sunburnt West
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Carl Sandburg
Thirty-two poems about life in the American Midwest, focusing on the city of Chicago, Illinois. Summary by Matt Pierard
Short Stories in Prose and Verse
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Henry Lawson
Short Stories in Prose and Verse” is Henry Lawson’s first published book (1894); his first published poem appeared in 1887. The volume is a …
The City of Dreadful Night and Other Poems
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James Thomson
While primarily known for being pessimistic, the poetry of James Thomson (1834-1882) is also beautiful and psychologically complex. This 190…