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A Prelude
Francis Sherman
A solitary soul seeks sanctuary in the natural world, retreating from the clamor of human history to find a stillness that transcends the reach of time and the desperation of his fellow wanderers.
Crack o' dawn
Fannie Stearns Davis
A spirit poised between the quietude of a garden and the wild, untethered rush of the open wind, this collection captures the ache of seeking a home that exists only in the imagination.
Embers, Volume 3
Gilbert Parker
HOOK These verses capture the haunting intersection of memory, loss, and the rugged, sweeping beauty of the Canadian frontier.
My betrothed, and other poems
Lizzie Magie
Poetry is a mirror for the heart’s most private cravings, capturing the fleeting intensity of human attachment. These verses elevate common emotions into a celebration of love, desire, and the restless individual soul.
Christmas offering
Dimond, Elizabeth, Mrs.
A gentle voice from the mid-nineteenth century invites you into a quiet world of faith, family, and the seasonal rhythms of rural Rhode Island. These verses offer a window into a life anchored by devotion and the simple, enduring bonds of friendship.
The Pacifist, and other poems
Howard Futhey Brinton
A collection of verses captures the small-town rhythms and urban eccentricities of early twentieth-century American life, finding humor and moral gravity in the everyday man.
The Arm Chair
Unknown
An antique piece of furniture becomes the silent witness to a generation of spiritual leaders, anchoring a meditation on the waning simplicity of Quaker life. This verse serves as both a memorial and a moral compass.
Embers, Volume 1
Gilbert Parker
A collection of lyrical fragments, this work gathers the private memories and impressions of a wanderer, serving as a quiet record of a life spent traveling between distant lands and the warmth of home.
Vacation Verse
William M. (William Mackay) MacKeracher
This collection of verse captures the quiet intensity of a young scholar’s observations, mapping the intersection of Canadian landscapes, historical memory, and the interior life of a contemplative mind.
Clear Crystals
Clara Frances McKee Beede
The rhythm of the home front beats in these verses, echoing the quiet prayers and steady persistence of those waiting for their loved ones to return from war.
Some Broken Twigs
Clara Frances McKee Beede
The world is a tapestry of both dismal days and beautiful blooms, where broken twigs and jagged trails serve as necessary markers for those finding their way out of the woods.
A Book of Epigrams
Unknown
This collection offers a mosaic of human observation, distilling complex emotions and sharp social critiques into the brief, elegant form of the epigram. It is a mirror held up to the enduring contradictions of life.
A vision of life
Darrell Figgis
A visionary journey through the soul’s struggle for meaning, these poems capture the tension between the siren call of worldly pleasure and the rigorous, often painful, demands of moral duty.
Songs of Two
Arthur Sherburne Hardy
Two souls intertwined by the gravity of love find their purpose not in knowing, but in being—a quiet, enduring song of devotion that transcends the limits of life and the silence of death.
Christmas Sunshine
Various
A chorus of voices gathers to celebrate the spirit of the season, weaving together ancient hymns, reflective verse, and the warmth of shared tradition. This collection serves as a timeless companion for the midwinter heart.
Rambles in Waltham Forest
Blessington, Marguerite, Countess of
The poet wanders through the verdant, quiet glades of Waltham Forest, finding in its serene landscape both a refuge from the clamor of London and a profound connection to the divine.
The Comet, and Other Verses
Irving Sidney Dix
This collection of verse captures the quiet, rugged spirit of the Pennsylvania highlands at the turn of the twentieth century. It functions as a humble, earnest souvenir of a vanishing rural landscape and a reflection on the fleeting nature of human existence.
The Hours of Fiammetta: A Sonnet Sequence
Rachel Annand Taylor
A cycle of sonnets traces a woman’s transformation from an aesthetic idealist to a seeker of the "whole truth" of love, finding that beauty and suffering are inextricably linked.
In a Belgian Garden, and Other Poems
Frank Oliver Call
The poems collected here capture a world caught between the quietude of nature and the encroaching shadow of the Great War, reflecting the elegiac spirit of a generation facing profound, sudden loss.
Petunia blossoms: Ballads and poems
Dorothea Auguste Gunhilde Schrage
A collection of earnest, domestic verse, this work captures the rhythms of early 20th-century family life, finding profound beauty in the simple acts of raising children, maintaining a household, and weathering the passage of time.
Elegy in Autumn
Clinton Scollard
Across the vast, silent distance of mortality, a companion in verse reaches out to a departed friend. This reflection serves as a quiet, lyrical monument to a shared life of literary devotion and natural wonder.
The New Joan, and Other Poems
Katherine Hale
A soldier’s soul meets the spirit of Joan of Arc, sparking a visionary call to arms that transcends gender and transforms the domestic labor of the Great War into a spiritual crusade for humanity.
The Scarlet Gown: Being Verses by a St. Andrews Man
R. F. (Robert Fuller) Murray
The life of a student is a fleeting, bittersweet season defined by the tension between the weight of looming examinations and the irrepressible urge to play. These verses capture that transient spark with humor and grace.
A happy New Year, and other verses
Charles Edward de la Poer Beresford
The world is vast, shifting, and deeply marked by memory, moving between the sharp edges of history and the soft, fleeting nature of a dream. These verses capture a life lived across borders, looking back toward the rugged shores of Donegal and forward to the inevitable, quiet conclusion of all human striving.
Embers, Volume 2
Gilbert Parker
Love remains a flickering, persistent light in the gathering dark. These verses trace the fragile boundaries between memory and longing, exploring how the human heart attempts to find order in the wreckage of lost time.
The World English Bible (WEB): Lamentations
Anonymous
A city once celebrated as a princess among nations sits in solitary mourning, its majesty shattered by conquest and its people hollowed out by the crushing weight of famine and war.
Out of the North
Howard V. (Howard Vigne) Sutherland
The frozen silence of the Arctic wilderness finds a voice in these spare, melancholic verses, capturing the physical and spiritual isolation of a land where life is measured against the indifference of the snow.
Cornish Catches, and Other Verses
Bernard Moore
The rhythms of the tide and the cadence of a rugged landscape define this collection of verse, capturing the soul of a coastal people through the lens of local speech and steady, seafaring lives.
Eyes of Youth: A Book of Verse by Padraic Colum, Shane Leslie, Viola Meynell, Ruth Lindsay, Hugh Austin, Judith Lytton, Olivia Meynell, Maurice Healy, Monica Saleeby & Francis Meynell. With four early poems by Francis Thompson & a foreword by Gilbert K. Chesterton
Various
These verses capture the fleeting, luminous intensity of youth, where the smallest lyric becomes a vessel for the weight of the universe and the shadows of the divine.
In the Land of Dakota: A Little Book of North Dakota Verse
Huldah Lucile Winsted
A gentle collection of verse capturing the spirit of the prairie, this volume reflects on the hard work, natural beauty, and moral earnestness of life in early North Dakota.
New Poems
Roberts, Charles G. D., Sir
The horizon is never a boundary in these verses, but a summons to further discovery, urging the soul to press beyond the known into the vast, unfolding promise of the next climb.
Profiles from China: Sketches in Free Verse of People and Things Seen in the Interior
Eunice Tietjens
The traveler’s gaze is a mirror that captures the shifting light of a fractured world, finding the sublime and the squalid side-by-side in a land that feels both ancient and alarmingly new.
Poetical Works: Comprising Elegies, Sketches from Life, Pathetic, and Extempore Pieces
James Parkerson
This collection of verse serves as a moral manual for the wayward, offering stern guidance on avoiding the ruinous traps of debt, vanity, and vice in early nineteenth-century England.
On Strike Till 3
Grant Balfour
This narrative poem follows a young widow and her small son, David, whose impoverished life in a cottage near a ravine is transformed by a simple, desperate act of love. It is a quiet, devastating study of poverty and the endurance of maternal devotion.
Specimens of the Russian poets, vol. 2 (of 2)
John Bowring
This collection offers an intimate bridge to the nineteenth-century Russian soul, translating the rhythmic melancholy and fervent national spirit of poets who found beauty even within the confines of winter’s reach.
The Miracle Songs of Jesus
Wilson MacDonald
This lyric sequence portrays Jesus not as a formal deity of the temple, but as a wandering poet whose true power lay in the rhythm and beauty of his words rather than his physical miracles.
How She Felt in Her First Corset, and Other Poems
Matthew W. Alderson
The persistent pull of human affection defines this collection, where the modest routines of frontier life are elevated by a sincere, often humorous devotion to the domestic and the romantic.
The Dark Ages, and Other Poems
L.
Beneath the noise of modern industry and changing empires, a quiet voice listens for the sacred echoes of history, faith, and untamed landscapes.
Poems
Sophia Margaretta Hensley
A solitary soul confronts the quiet devastation of unfulfilled longing, tracing the fragile border where mortal doubt dissolves into the vast, indifferent grace of nature and enduring love.
The Tribute: A Panegyrical Poem
Philo
The quiet withdrawal of a revered statesman to his Norfolk estate inspires a lyrical celebration of agrarian virtue, parliamentary steadfastness, and lifelong public service.
Towards democracy
Edward Carpenter
An awakening soul breaks through the stifling shams of Victorian England, descending to the soil and the common labors of humanity to find freedom, unity, and an unshakeable rebirth.
In the shadows
David Gray
A young Scottish poet facing early death records his final months in thirty raw, beautiful sonnets that meditate on mortality, nature, and art.
Some imagist poets, 1917
D. H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
A chorus of voices emerges from the shadow of the Great War, seeking to capture the exact, unadorned essence of a broken world through the sharp, crystalline lens of modern poetry.