Single Author Collections
Heart of Spring
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Shaw Neilson
John Shaw Neilson was born at Penola, South Australia in 1872, the son of a farmer and contractor who removed to Victoria when Neilson was n…
The Pot of Gold
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Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
Celebrated prolific 19th century author of dozens of short stories and novels brings us a wistful and whimsical collection of delightful chi…
The Old Year
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John Clare
John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English country…
Some Verses
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Theodore Wratislaw
Theodore Wratislaw was a fin de siècle poet and a less famous Decadent author than some of his contemporaries.This short collection o…
Love Songs
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Sara Teasdale
With classical, lyrical tones, and frequently feminist-influenced themes, Sara Teasdale’s Love Songs established her as one of the leading w…
Four Hymns
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Edmund Spenser
Spenser explains in the dedication of this volume that the hymns to love and to beauty were written early in his career and their "heav…
I Remember, I Remember
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Thomas Hood
"There were scarcely any events in the life of Thomas Hood. One condition there was of too potent determining importance—life-long ill …
Rhymes of the Rockies
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James W. Whilt
The author worked as a dude wrangler Glacier National Park and lived on his ranch near Eureka, Monatana. This is the first book of his poem…
War's Embers
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Ivor Gurney
A collection of poems by the Gloucestershire-born English poet Ivor Gurney describing his feelings about the First World War, during which h…
The Gardener and The Burden
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Rudyard Kipling
Helen Turrell’s life has been one of respectability and duty, and she adopts and raises her illegitimate nephew upon her scapegrace brother’…
Early Poems
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James Russell Lowell
This is a volume of the early poems by James Russell Lowell, including a brief biographical sketch by Nathan Haskell Dole. - Summary by Caro…
Rainbows
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Olive Custance
At age 16, London blueblood Olive Custance already figured in literary circles shared by Oscar Wilde and John Gray. She later wrote for the …
April Twilights
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Willa Sibert Cather and Willa Cather
A selection of thirty-six poems by American writer Willa Cather. (summary by mleigh)
Debits and Credits
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Rudyard Kipling
This is a collection of short stories, poems, and play fragments published in 1926. Many of them are set during World War I. Many have stron…
Poems of Schiller
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Friedrich Schiller
Poems by the German Classical poet Friedrich von Schiller from his first period (until 1785) in English translations by Edgar A. Bowring et …
These Little Ones
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E. Nesbit
A collection of short stories for adults, mainly about children in hard times. The title references Matthew 18:6, which verse Nesbit include…
Before the Mirror
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Elizabeth Stoddard
Elizabeth Drew Stoddard, née Barstow was a United States poet and novelist. She is most widely known today as the author of The Morge…
Sonnets
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Constance Naden
Naden's sonnets have topics as diverse as astronomy, classical mythology and Shakespeare's birthplace. This collection is taken from Naden's…
A Shropshire Lad
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A. E. Housman
Composed while Housman was living in London, and mostly before he even visited the county of Shropshire, A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of 63 p…
Poems
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George Murray
George Murray was a British poet, translator and scholar who lived out most of his life in Canada, where he was a classics master at a Montr…