Poetry Books

The Ladies Delight

Anonymous

The Ladies Delight is a romantic poetry collection written by Anonymous author...

De Edda

Frans Berding

De Edda is an old norse poetry written in Dutch language by Frans Berding...

The Crayon Papers

Washington Irving

The Crayon Papers is a collection of prose works written by Washington Irving, an American short story writer, essayist, biographer, historian who is best known for his short stories "Rip Van Winkle" ..

The Sonnets

William Shakespeare

Shakespeare’s sonnets comprise a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality. Shakespeare's sonnets are composed of 14 lines, and mo..

Riley Farm-Rhymes

James Whitcomb Riley

Riley Farm-Rhymes is a collection of farm life poems written for children by James Whitcomb Riley.To The Good Old-Fashioned PeopleRiley Farm-RhymesThe Orchard Lands Of Long AgoWhen The Frost Is On The..

Late Lyrics and Earlier, With Many Other Verses

Thomas Hardy

About half the verses that follow were written quite lately.  The rest are older, having been held over in MS. when past volumes were published, on considering that these would contain a sufficie..

The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum

Wallace Irwin

So Complained Phineas Fletcher in his Purple Island as long ago as 1633. Three centuries have brought to the development of lyric passion no higher form than that of the sonnet cycle. The sonnet has b..

Fly Leaves

Charles Stuart Calverley

Fly Leaves is an English poetry written by Charles Stuart Calverley.In the Gloaming to be roaming, where the crested waves are foaming,   And the shy mermaidens combing locks that ripple to ..