Poetry

The Poems of Jonathan Swift, D.D., Volume 2

Jonathan Swift

The work is a long, allegorical poem that opens with a courtroom scene in which shepherds and nymphs bring a…

A Cluster of Grapes A Book of Twentieth Century Poetry

The volume presents itself as a straightforward anthology of contemporary verse, deliberately limited to…

Tender Buttons Objects—Food—Rooms

Gertrude Stein

Tender Buttons Objects, Food, Rooms is Gertrude Stein’s collection of prose poems, a work that begins not…

The Battaile of Agincourt

Michael Drayton

The work is Michael Drayton’s poetic retelling of the 1415 Battle of Agincourt, presented as a long narrative…

Les Fleurs du Mal

Charles Baudelaire

Ce volume est le recueil poétique de Charles Baudelaire, publié pour la première fois en 1857 et…

A Child's Garden of Verses

Robert Louis Stevenson

Robert Louis Stevenson’s A Child’s Garden of Verses is a collection of short poems that capture the everyday…

The Complete Poetical Works of Samuel Taylor Coleridge. Vol 1 (of 2)

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

This volume presents the first half of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s complete poetical output, assembled as a…

The Continental Monthly, Vol 3 No 3, March 1863 Devoted To Literature And National Policy

Various

The Continental Monthly, Volume 3, Number 3, dated March 1863, is a nineteenth‑century periodical that blends…

Poems

Rainer Maria Rilke

The volume brings together the early and middle poems of Rainer Maria Rilke, tracing his evolution from the…

The language of flowers: The floral offering ; A Token of Affection and Esteem ; Comprising the Language and Poetry of Flowers

Henrietta Dumont

Henrietta Dumont’s The Language of Flowers offers a systematic guide to the symbolic meanings that various…

Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse, Those Formerly Publish'd Under the Title "My Night-Gown and Slippers."

George Colman

Broad Grins Comprising, With New Additional Tales in Verse is a self‑conscious, miscellany‑style work that…

The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2

Young, Ella Flagg; Field, Walter Taylor

The Young and Field Literary Readers, Book 2 is a classroom‑style anthology that mixes familiar verse with a…

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

Mother Goose or the Old Nursery Rhymes

The New Life (La Vita Nuova)

Dante Alighieri

The New Life is Dante Alighieri’s autobiographical collection of poems and prose that chronicles his youthful…

Marmion: A Tale Of Flodden Field

Walter Scott

Walter Scott’s “Marmion: A Tale of Flodden Field” is a long‑form narrative poem that intertwines the romance…

The Fables of La Fontaine Translated into English Verse by Walter Thornbury and Illustrated by Gustave Doré

Jean de La Fontaine

The volume presents Jean de La Fontaine’s celebrated fables in English verse, rendered by Walter Thornbury…

Childhood's Favorites and Fairy Stories The Young Folks Treasury, Volume 1

The Young Folks’ Treasury, Volume 1 is a curated anthology that sets out to fill a home with the literary…

Songs of a Sourdough

Robert W. Service

Songs of a Sourdough is a sprawling poetic tribute to the Yukon River Valley, presented as a series of…

Fringilla: Some Tales In Verse

R. D. Blackmore

Fringilla: Some Tales in Verse is a modest collection of poetry by Richard Doddridge Blackmore, first issued…

Stories in Verse

Henry Abbey

The work is a collection of poems by Henry Abbey, presented as a series of lyrical sketches that drift…

Little Folks (December 1884) A Magazine for the Young

Various

Little Folks is a nineteenth‑century children’s periodical that presents a serialized story of a mother’s…

Songs of Childhood

Walter De la Mare

Songs of Childhood is a collection of poems by Walter de la Mare, first published in London in 1902.

Life of John Keats: His Life and Poetry, His Friends, Critics and After-Fame

Sidney Colvin

Sidney Colvin’s work is a scholarly biography that seeks to unite the fragmented studies of John Keats into a…