Poetry Books

Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England

Anonymous

Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England is written by anonymous authors. The poem list includes belowThe Plain-Dealing ManThe Vanities Of LifeThe Life And Age Of ManThe Young Man..

The Baby's Bouquêt -

Walter Crane

The Baby's Bouquet.  A Companion to The Baby's Opera. A Fresh Bunch of Old Rhymes and Tunes with Music. Arranged and decorated by WALTER CRANE. ..

Jabberwocky

Lewis Carroll

Jabberwocky is a nonsense poem written by Lewis Carroll about the killing of a creature named "the Jabberwock". It was included in his 1871 novel Through the Looking-Glass, and What Alice Found There,..

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

If you've ever wondered at the expression "an albatross around one's neck," it comes from Samuel Taylor Coleridge's The Rime of the Ancient Mariner. The albatross is understood to mean the spirit of C..

You Are Old, Father William

Lewis Carroll

You Are Old, Father William is a poem by Lewis Carroll that appears in his book Alice's Adventures in Wonderland. It is recited by Alice in Chapter 5, "Advice from a Caterpillar"...

Milton - A Poem

William Blake

Milton is an epic poem by William Blake, written and illustrated between 1804 and 1810. Its hero is John Milton, who returns from Heaven and unites with Blake to explore the relationship between livin..

The Angel of Death

Johan Olof Wallin

The Angel of Death is a poetry collection written by Johan Olof Wallin, a Swedish minister, orator, poet and later Church of Sweden Archbishop of Uppsala, Sweden between 1837-1839. He is most rem..

Flowers of Evil

Charles Baudelaire

Charles Baudelaire is one of the best known French poets, controversial and banned in his time, yet considered fundamental to symbolist and modernist literature. His book the Flowers of Evil deals wit..