Poetry Books

The New Life (La Vita Nuova)

Dante Alighieri

The New Life (La Vita Nuova) is a text by Dante Alighieri published in 1295. It is an expression of the medieval genre of courtly love in a prosimetrum style, a combination of both prose and verse.The..

Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times

Alice Duer Miller

Are Women People? A Book of Rhymes for Suffrage Times by Alice Duer Miller.A woman engineer has been dismissed by the Board of Education, under their new rule that women shall not attend high pre..

American Poetry, 1922

Robert Frost

Robert Lee Frost was an American poet. His work was initially published in England before it was published in America. Known for his realistic depictions of rural life and his command of American coll..

Spoon River Anthology

Edgar Lee Masters

Spoon River Anthology, by Edgar Lee Masters, is a collection of short free verse poems that collectively narrates the epitaphs of the residents of Spoon River, a fictional small town named after the r..

The Rose-Jar

Thomas S. Jones

The Rose-Jar is a collection of poems written by Thomas S. Jones. The author desires to thank the editors of Appleton’s Magazine, Everybody’s Magazine, Lippincott’s Magazine, The New York Times, The S..

The Kalevala

Anonymous

The Kalevala is a 19th-century work of epic poetry compiled by Elias Lönnrot from Karelian and Finnish oral folklore and mythology. It is regarded as the national epic of Karelia and Finland and is on..

The Nibelungenlied

Anonymous

The Nibelungenlied, translated as The Song of the Nibelungs, is an epic poem from around 1200 written in Middle High German. Its anonymous poet was likely from the region of Passau...

Additional Poems (1837-1848)

Oliver Wendell Holmes

Additional Poems (1837-1848) is a classic collection of American poetry by Oliver Wendell Holmes. IN the hour of twilight shadows The Pilgrim sire looked out; He thought of the "bloudy Salvages " That..