Poetry Books

I started 2017 with high hopes and so much positivity. My aim was to document the positives during the year, the small positives that in our busy lives so often get overlooked. In one way the year was a build up to my climb of Kilimanjaro in September...

Una raccolta di poesie che raccontano i sogni di quasi due anni di notti.

Massimo Del Zio nasce a Milano il 15 luglio 1963.Poeta, scrittore e drammaturgo, ottiene la Laurea honoris causa in lettere antiche e filosofia nel 2009 - 2010 a Roma.Nominato Accademico Tiberino a vita il 21 luglio 1986 nella classe Letteratura e musica...

MY BOOK IS HOW I WISH WE COULD FREE THE WORLD OF WAR AND CORRUPTION,AND MAKE IT A BETTER PLACE FOR OUR CHILDREN, A WORLD OF HOPE LOVE AND UNITY THE COLOUR OF OUR SKINS SHOULD NEVER MATTER WE ARE ALL THE SAME INSIDE,A NATION OF DIFFERENT NATIONALITIES ALL...

Red and White Starlight Sky is the follow-up to 2022's If That Day Ever Comes. It is a journey of many different topics, most of which are in sections throughout the book.The title is a way of saying Canadian visions, specifically from the prairies. It...

The nor'easter blew across the surging sea,Churning swells of aqua fury.The sharks attacked 'midst breaking wavesAs shackled slaves sank into their graves.Sun swirls and clouds of greyOvercast the horrors of that day,And as the ocean heaved with streaks...

An enlightening and uplifting collection of poems beautifully paired with striking images that will extend the reader's delight. These poems contain powerful and moving messages about nature, humanity, our Earth and the wonders we create. This is...

Why I Like PoetryThe beautiful thing about words isthey take on their true meaningwhen we need them most.No other time than when the wordsfill and spill onto that pagehave they arranged in the samestaged way in my mind.Once out in the world, they're...

After being diagnosed with Multiple Sclerosis and losing the ability to manipulate pencils and brushes to follow my love of drawing and painting I found poetry as an alternative way to express myself - painting pictures with words.  This book holds...

As I sit and begin to write these linesI'm reminded of a much earlier timeI must have been 8 when I first beganTo create prose with a pen in my handAlthough most times it was done for funWho'd have guessed one day a writer I'd becomeSo I've laid myself...

Come on a journey through themes of nature, friendship, searching for home, activism, family life and personal reflection in this heartfelt collection of poems by Carys Owen. The simple language of the poems reveals a depth of meaning as you venture...

Thyme clings, high / and away from the grazing and scents / the air.Island reality is interconnected with live-retrieved memories in which a nurse follows a violent patient into the northern Canadian bush, a migrant mother faces her new job as the...

Carol Shields, best known for her fiction writing, received both the Pulitzer Prize and the Governor General's Award for Fiction for her novel The Stone Diaries. But she also wrote hundreds of poems over the span of her career.The Collected Poetry of...

I was born at home, 1445 N. 8th Street in Milwaukee, WI on February 23, 1941. The oldest daughter of threebrothers and three sisters of which my sister, Renee passed away at 28 years of age.I attended Lee Street School, St. Benedict the Moor Grade...

Have you ever travelled down a road that has been little explored? Have you been driven to tears by feelings of isolation, by the feeling that you are somehow different? Do you hunger for truth? You are not alone.It is no coincidence that you've found...

Venus and Adonis is a narrative poem written by William Shakespeare in 1593. The poem tells the story of the goddess Venus, who falls in love with the mortal Adonis. Despite her attempts to seduce him, Adonis remains steadfast in his refusal to give in...

An Idyl of Work is a novel written by Lucy Larcom and first published in 1875. The story is set in a rural New England town and follows the life of a young woman named Penelope who works as a weaver in a local mill. Despite the difficult and often...

An Exhibition Of Selected Works Of The Poets Laureate Of England (1901) is a book that showcases the works of the Poets Laureate of England. The book was published by the Grolier Club, a private club for bibliophiles and book collectors based in New York...

This book is an English translation of Frederic Mistral's ""Mireio"" which was originally written in Provencal in 1867. The translation has been crowned by the French Academy, indicating its high literary merit. ""Mireio"" tells the story of a young...

An Essay On The Application Of Natural History To Poetry is a book written by John Aitkin and first published in 1777. The book explores the relationship between natural history and poetry, arguing that the study of the natural world can provide...

""An Essay On Man"" is a philosophical poem written by Alexander Pope in 1733. The poem is divided into four epistles and explores the nature of humanity and its place in the universe. Pope argues that humans are a part of a greater cosmic order and that...

A Selection of Latin Verse is a book published in 1914, compiled by instructors in Latin at Williams College. The book is a collection of Latin poems from various eras, including the classical period and the Middle Ages. The poems are arranged...

""A Selection From The Parables Of The New Testament: Paraphrased In Familiar Verse For The Use Of Children"" is a book written by Mary Anne Davis in 1836. The book is a collection of parables from the New Testament, which have been paraphrased in a way...

A Second Series of Fleet Street Eclogues is a collection of poems written by John Davidson and published in 1896. The book is a continuation of Davidson's earlier work, Fleet Street Eclogues, which was published in 1893. The poems in this collection are...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

A Sheaf of Song is a collection of poems written by Benjamin Franklin Leggett and published in 1887. The book contains a variety of poems on different themes, including love, nature, and patriotism. The poems are written in a lyrical and emotional style,...

""A Series of Progressive Exercises in Latin Elegiac Verse"" is a book written by Edward Walford and originally published in 1847. The book is designed to help students of Latin poetry improve their skills in composing elegiac verse, a form of poetry...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

""A Selection From The Poems Of Louis The First, King Of Bavaria"" is a collection of poetry written by Louis I, the first king of Bavaria. The book was originally published in 1837 and features a selection of Louis I's most notable poems. The poems are...

A Sailor's Garland is a collection of poems written by John Masefield, first published in 1906. The poems are centered around the theme of the sea and sailors, reflecting Masefield's own experiences as a sailor. The collection comprises of 44 poems, each...

A Russo-Japanese War Poem (1905) is a book written by Jane H. Oakley. It is a collection of poems that were inspired by the Russo-Japanese War, which took place between 1904 and 1905. The book contains a total of 31 poems that reflect on the war and its...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as...

An 18-year-old soldier's journey through the jungles and villages of the Far East, fighting a war not so much against an enemy as for survival. The stories within, gripping in their intense super-reality, will astound those who have never experienced the...

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s childhood was a life of transient poverty. Her mother Cora, who was separated for many years from, and finally divorced in 1904, her father Henry Tolman Millay, moved Edna and her two sisters constantly from town to town...

"Mohnnau introduces a rather novel voice into the contemporary lyrical concert. His poems are refreshingly non-hermetic and almost devoid of any political agitation. He has a distinctly characteristic tone: his verses are eminently personal, his language...

The specially commissioned essays in Women and Poetry, 1660-1750 address the multiplicity of female poetic practice and the public image of the woman poet between the Restoration and mid-eighteenth century. The volume includes biographically informative...

With joy and depth, Suzi Rapoport evokes the span of our human journey, in the 44 poems in this collection Butterflies at Hope Station. Their ease and seeming simplicity carry them on wings whose colours come to reveal unexpected subtlety and maturity...

For thousands of years the Psalms have been at the heart of theistic worship, originally as songs sung by the ancient Jewish people whose history the Old Testament records. Many of the 150 Psalms are ascribed to King David; others' origins are unknown,...

Xayaat Saeed's second poetry collection Nefelibata, is a head-dive into the art of making art. Along with poems, Saeed also includes anecdotes and thoughts about her experiences as a creative. 'The weird thing is, I never find films about films or books...

A Collection Of Rhythmic Prose And Poetry "The reader forms an attachment to the author/narrator as the parts meld into a story. The majority of the work is one - to two-page vignettes that create almost a novel in verse... Absorbing, an otherwise...

These are poems that encorages us to take time to reflect and be grateful for the goodness of life, which promotes joy and peace.  

There are countless funny poetry books for children. Now, there is finally one about raising them. Do you ever have a parenting experience and think, "You must be joking." Well, the lighthearted, humorous, poetry in Will Rhyme for Diapers...

Love can hurt and love can heal. Love can make life miserable or fantastically exciting. It is an intense emotion, mostly misunderstood by psychologists, sociologists and other professionals, but yet the subject of almost all artistic endeavors.Imagine...

The adventure of finding who you are is different for each person. It took me a long time and countless ink-soaked pages. "The crypt overflows- vol1" is a big part of those adventures and the difficulties/triumphs that came with it. More on my...