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Poetry — page 10
571 public-domain poetry books, summarised. Page 10 of 12.
Along the Shore
Rose Hawthorne Lathrop
A solitary voice watches waves break against an unyielding coast, turning quiet shorelines, sudden griefs, and lost battles into stark, enduring song.
Challenge
Louis Untermeyer
This collection captures the restless, vibrating energy of the early twentieth-century American city, where the beauty of the natural world and the grim realities of labor collide in a single, impassioned breath. It is a work of fierce contradictions, oscillating between a love for the lyrical tradition and a…
Evening songs
Vítězslav Hálek
A poet’s heart remains awake, guarding the embers of love while the world around it drifts into silent slumber. This collection of verses captures the ache of longing and the transformative power of a devoted spirit.
Coming to the King
Frances Ridley Havergal
The heart’s journey toward the divine is depicted here as a transformative pilgrimage, moving from a place of lonely longing to the radiant, secure presence of a sovereign King.
From the hidden way
James Branch Cabell
This collection of verse captures the bittersweet transition from the illusions of youth to the resigned wisdom of maturity. It serves as a lyrical map of past attachments, charting the geography of a heart that persists in loving even as its objects drift into the shadows of memory.
St Baldred of the Bass, a Pictish legend
James Miller
A collection of Scottish verse and drama weaves together saintly legends, tragic sieges, and local folklore across East Lothian, capturing a landscape deeply haunted by its violent past and miraculous traditions.
Fiddler's farewell
Leonora Speyer
The violin is not merely an instrument here, but a key to locked memories and a vessel for the soul’s deepest, most discordant music. It is a work of fierce, lyrical self-interrogation.
The Rose-Jar
Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel) Jones
Memories are like pressed flowers, fragile and haunting, kept within the quiet chambers of the heart long after the gardens they bloomed in have vanished into the grey distance of time.
Hesperus: and Other Poems and Lyrics
Charles Sangster
From celestial realms of newborn stars to rustic Canadian hearths, a nineteenth-century poet maps the vast architecture of human emotion, divine love, and wild northern landscapes.
Songs at the Start
Louise Imogen Guiney
Driven by the fierce will of the sea and the quiet dignity of historic grief, these verses map a restless journey across human devotion and memory.
The Flag, and Other Poems, 1918
Amy Redpath Roddick
A nation finds its voice amid global conflict, weighing the sacred bonds of empire against the quiet pull of nature and memory.
Eidola
Frederic Manning
Amid the mud and horror of the First World War, classical myth and fragile nature offer a desperate sanctuary for the human spirit.
Escape and fantasy
G. Rostrevor (George Rostrevor) Hamilton
Between the humdrum ledger books of the daytime and the phantom flowers of twilight lies a borderland where the human soul slips its daily bonds to wander through timeless realms of myth, nature, and quiet ecstasy.
Purcell Ode, and Other Poems
Robert Bridges
An intricate meditation on art, nature, and mortality echoes through these lyrical verses and critical reflections, tracing the delicate boundaries where human speech meets song and time reclaims the aging body.
Songs Unsung
Lewis Morris
A quiet journey through myth, modern tragedy, and human grief, questioning the fixed bounds of fate, memory, and mortal endurance.
Primavera: Poems by Four Authors
Stephen Phillips
Youth looks across a spacious world with radiant hope, unaware of the disenchanting years ahead, while quiet sorrow and memory linger over the graves of love and the inevitable decay of spring.
Behind the Arras: A Book of the Unseen
Bliss Carman
Within the quiet, drafty rooms of an old house, a restless soul listens to the whispers of unseen presences and confronts the great rhythm of the universe.
Dream tapestries
Louise Morey Bowman
These verses capture the delicate, often melancholic tension between the rigid expectations of early 20th-century Canadian life and the vibrant, secret landscapes of the imagination.
More Cricket Songs
Norman Gale
A joyful, nostalgic celebration of English cricket, this collection captures the game’s simple pleasures, crisp sunny mornings, dynamic heroes, and enduring camaraderie through energetic light verse.
The Banks of Wye: A Poem
Robert Bloomfield
A journey taken for pleasure in the summer of 1807 inspires this lyrical record of a ten-day excursion through the picturesque landscapes of South Wales and the river Wye. It stands as a sincere, lighthearted testimony to the restorative power of travel for those worn down by the rigid demands of city life.
Cap and Gown: A Treasury of College Verse
Unknown
The fleeting, earnest, and often lighthearted spirit of campus life lives on in these pages, capturing the transient joys and quiet reflections of a generation that traded cap and gown for the responsibilities of adulthood.
Summer of Love
Joyce Kilmer
The poet kneels before his beloved, laying down a tribute of verse to celebrate a summer of love. He speaks of romance as a journey through fire, where the heart finds its true home in another’s eyes.
The Snow-Drop: A Holiday Gift
Sarah S. Mower
A fragile, housebound poet finds profound solace in the rhythms of nature and the quiet virtues of rural life, transforming her solitude into a resonant collection of moral and meditative verse.
A Tale of Old Japan
Alfred Noyes
This narrative poem explores the tragic intersection of artistic obsession and human devotion in a stylized, dreamlike vision of historical Japan. It portrays the quiet heartbreak of a young woman lost in the shadow of a master painter.
Shylock reasons with Mr. Chesterton, and other poems
Humbert Wolfe
This collection of verse captures the restless, mourning, and occasionally defiant spirit of a post-war generation seeking meaning amidst the wreckage of tradition. It is a work of intellectual agility that bridges the gap between classical antiquity and the encroaching modern era.
Sonnets and Other Verse
William M. (William Mackay) MacKeracher
This collection of verse captures the transition between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, grounding its search for truth in the landscapes, history, and evolving social conscience of Canada.
Borth Lyrics
Edward Thring
This collection of poetry chronicles a singular episode in Victorian academic life: the forced migration of an entire boarding school to the Welsh coast. It captures a moment of institutional peril transformed into a communal adventure.
Poems of Peace and War
Elizabeth H. Connor
This collection of verse offers a sincere, devotional perspective on the upheaval of the First World War, framing global conflict through a lens of spiritual endurance. It remains a testament to the era’s intersection of fervent patriotism and religious idealism.
The Bible, Douay-Rheims, Book 21: Psalms: The Challoner Revision
Unknown
The Book of Psalms serves as an enduring repository of human emotion, mapping the vast landscape between profound isolation and spiritual ecstasy. It remains a foundational text for its raw, unflinching articulation of the human condition.
Tides: A Book of Poems
John Drinkwater
The spirit of the English countryside and the quiet persistence of human love define these verses, capturing the tension between a world of turbulent change and the enduring beauty of the land.
Hymns from the East: Being Centos and Suggestions from the Office Books of the Holy Eastern Church
John Brownlie
The songs of ancient lands find new life here, bridging the divide between the solitary, ornate devotion of the East and the quiet, personal piety of the West. Through rhythmic verse, the echoes of a distant liturgy invite a modern heart to find stillness and reflection.
The Dance of Dinwiddie
Marshall Moreton
HOOK A group of revelers finds themselves trapped on an island homestead as the Ohio River rises, turning a night of music and romance into a desperate, surreal voyage of survival.
A silver pool
Beulah Field
Stars descend to bathe in a heart transformed into a silver pool of melody.
The Death of Saul and other Eisteddfod Prize Poems and Miscellaneous Verses
J. C. Manning
A poet reflects on the heavy burden of artistic ambition, the sorrow of lost love, and the moral gravity of a nation navigating its own history and identity.
Songs from Vagabondia
Bliss Carman
Step away from the counting-house and the city streets to embrace an untamed life of open roads, wind-swept shores, and midnight song.
The Coast of Bohemia
Thomas Nelson Page
A veteran prose writer ventures into verse, navigating the unknown seas of poetry to catch fleeting snatches of an inner day and timeless music.
The Dying Indian's Dream: A Poem
Silas Tertius Rand
A humble hunter wastes away in a frigid wigwam, only to experience a magnificent vision of a golden celestial palace before his final breath.
The Sylphs of the Season with Other Poems
Washington Allston
The visionary power of the imagination is the true subject of these verses, which navigate the shifting landscapes of the human heart and the divine nature of artistic creation.
Bread and Circuses
Helen Parry Eden
This collection of verse captures the quiet intensity of early 20th-century life, mapping the intersection of domestic devotion, rural landscapes, and a deep, observant faith. It serves as a gentle, rhythmic meditation on the small-scale joys and profound sorrows that define a life lived with attention.
Marlborough, and Other Poems
Charles Hamilton Sorley
This collection offers a rare, unflinching look at the collision between the romantic idealism of youth and the brutal, mechanical reality of the First World War. It is a portrait of a mind sharpening itself against the whetstone of conflict.
Poems
Fanny Kemble
This collection of verse captures the restless, yearning spirit of a nineteenth-century observer navigating the divide between the public stage of life and the quiet, often painful, interior world of the heart. It is a portrait of a soul caught between beauty and decay.
Songs of the Slav
Petr Bezruč
A rallying cry for an oppressed nation, these poems burn with the desperate, defiant spirit of a people refusing to be extinguished by empires.
The minstrel
Lennox Amott
A restless, wandering spirit finds solace and sorrow in the rhythmic tides of nature, tracing a path from the lighthearted follies of youth to the contemplative, shadowed maturity of a solitary life.
Captain Craig
Edwin Arlington Robinson
HOOK An aging, destitute man finds an unexpected final purpose by challenging his younger friends to abandon their cynicism and embrace a life of courageous, clear-eyed joy.
Eire, and other poems
Robin Flower
The songs of this collection bridge the chasm between the rugged, ancient soil of Ireland and the quiet, introspective vistas of the English countryside. These verses evoke a world where the boundary between the mortal and the mythic is as thin as the morning mist.
Poems in Many Lands
Rennell Rodd
These lyrical meditations trace the geography of a restless soul, wandering from the quiet of English villages to the sun-drenched ruins of Rome, seeking the eternal amidst the transience of human life.
Coal and Candlelight, and Other Verses
Helen Parry Eden
A quiet, observant voice seeks meaning amidst the domestic rhythms of a home and the encroaching shadows of a world at war. These verses find the sacred within the mundane, tracing the delicate boundaries between private devotion and public crisis.
The Angel of Death
Johan Olof Wallin
This profound meditation on mortality adopts the persona of the Angel of Death, reminding humanity that our earthly lives are mere fleeting interludes before a final, inevitable transition. It is a work of solemn, enduring grace that balances the weight of death with the promise of divine restoration.