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539 public-domain poetry books, summarised. Page 6 of 12.
In the Morning
Willis Boyd Allen
The sun rises on a landscape of faith and memory, where the quietest moments of a life—a child’s call, the blooming of a marigold, the turning of a page—become the echoes of the divine.
Miscellany of Poetry: 1919
Unknown
This anthology serves as a poignant, atmospheric time capsule from the immediate aftermath of the Great War. It gathers diverse voices to capture the collective exhaustion, cynicism, and tentative hope of a society emerging from catastrophe.
The Unknown Eros
Coventry Patmore
The sacred and the domestic dissolve into one another, revealing the divine pulse beating within the most ordinary human joys and sorrows. This is a sequence of odes that elevates the quietude of a faithful life into a map of the soul’s journey toward its creator.
Custer, and Other Poems
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The world moves in cycles of joy and sorrow, but the strength to endure rests entirely within the architecture of the human soul. This collection weaves together the grand, tragic history of the American frontier with the quiet, urgent philosophy of daily personal conduct.
The Path of Dreams: Poems
Leigh Gordon Giltner
The quiet melancholy of a late-Victorian heart finds its voice in these lyrical verses, where the transience of love and the endurance of grief are mapped onto the shifting landscapes of the natural world.
Russian Lyrics
Martha Dickinson Bianchi
These verses capture the vast, melancholy spirit of a landscape where the soul finds its only true reflection in the wildness of the steppe and the freezing breath of the northern winter.
"The Quiet Life": Certain Verses by Various Hands
Unknown
HOOK The weary mind, exhausted by the clamor of modern existence, finds a timeless sanctuary in the simple, ordered beauty of the rural landscape.
Last Poems: Translations from the Book of Indian Love
Laurence Hope
The heart’s relentless ache and the fleeting, intoxicating beauty of human connection are the dual spirits that haunt this collection of verse. It finds its home in the silent, moon-drenched spaces between desire and loss.
Many Voices: Poems
E. (Edith) Nesbit
A collection of lyric verse that moves from the bright, domestic magic of youth to the searing, shadowed realities of wartime sacrifice, this volume charts the emotional geography of a life lived through decades of transition.
Chimneysmoke
Christopher Morley
A quiet domestic warmth flickers across these pages, where daily suburban chores and small city observations are lit with steady affection.
From the Lips of the Sea
Clinton Scollard
Listen closely to the ocean, for its darkling lips murmur the forgotten legends of antiquity and the infinite secrets of eternity.
The Pilgrims of Hope and Chants for Socialists
William Morris
A country romance transforms into a stark encounter with urban poverty and revolutionary struggle, binding personal devotion to a grand vision of human liberation.
An Irish Crazy-Quilt: Smiles and tears, woven into song and story
Arthur M. Forrester
Struggling tenants, absurd officials, and fiery patriots collide across a landscape of political upheaval, absurd local rivalries, and unyielding national pride.
Stray Pebbles from the Shores of Thought
Elizabeth Porter Gould
A quietly radiant collection of Victorian verse turns a gentle eye toward the small, sacred moments of daily life, where nature, grief, and faith intersect.
Rhymes from the Russian
John Pollen
A window into the Russian soul, opened by a translator who matches strict fidelity with surprising lyricism.
Songs of Hafiz
active 14th century Ḥāfiẓ
The wine flows as the sun sets, and with it, the boundaries between the seeker, the song, and the divine begin to dissolve. These verses offer an invitation to cast off the weight of worldly sorrow and step into the luminous, fleeting garden of the present moment.
Weeds by the Wall: Verses
Madison Julius Cawein
These verses capture the American landscape with the precision of a naturalist, finding divinity in the humble weed and the quiet, rhythmic cycles of the changing seasons.
The Emperor's Rout
Unknown
The Emperor Moth, slighted by a rival’s social gathering, resolves to host a grander ball of his own. This whimsical verse narrative follows the preparation and chaotic aftermath of an insect society event.
The Lonely Dancer and Other Poems
Richard Le Gallienne
The weight of time and the fragility of human joy haunt this collection of verse. Through a lens of melancholy and romantic idealism, the work navigates the border between the beauty of the living world and the silence of the grave.
Matins
Francis Sherman
This collection of verse captures the shifting, melancholic beauty of the Canadian landscape and the quiet ache of human longing. It is a meditation on mortality, nature, and the persistence of love beyond the reach of time.
The Flower of Old Japan, and Other Poems
Alfred Noyes
To find the true meaning of the world, one must look through a child’s eyes at the "Flower of Old Japan," discovering that the deepest mysteries of existence are often hidden in plain sight.
"The United Seas"
Robert W. (Robert Wells) Rogers
The opening of the Panama Canal stands as a gateway not merely for ships, but for the dawn of a planetary brotherhood and a unified, democratic world.
Poems
John L. (John Lawson) Stoddard
A collection of verse traversing the landscapes of the human heart, this work finds profound, quiet significance in the fleeting moments of a life spent wandering the globe.
The Poetical Works of David Gray: A New and Enlarged Edition
David Gray
A young poet confronts the fragility of his own existence while seeking to immortalize the quiet, rain-washed beauty of his Scottish home. His work remains a haunting testament to the ache of unfulfilled promise and the sanctity of nature.
The Argosy, Vol. 51, No. 2, February, 1891
Various
A varied Victorian cabinet of wonders, this issue pairs dark domestic secrets and strange powers with sunlit travels, quietly pulling the reader into the subtle anxieties of its age.
Poems
William Blake
A visionary world unfolds where innocence and experience collide, revealing the tragic fraying of the human soul.
The Man of Uz, and Other Poems
L. H. (Lydia Howard) Sigourney
Faithful to the quiet duties of New England life, these poems find sacred purpose in ordinary work, community trials, and the quiet dignity of grief.
Poems
Elinor Jenkins
HOOK The shadow of the Great War looms over every verse, transforming the quietude of the English countryside into a landscape haunted by the ghosts of a generation lost to the trenches.
A Few More Verses
Susan Coolidge
The soul finds its compass in the quiet surrender to a larger design, learning that even the smallest life serves as a vital thread in the tapestry of the divine.
The Veil, and Other Poems
Walter De la Mare
The human spirit is a haunted house, and these poems are the whispers heard within its shifting corridors. They map the precarious border where the familiar world dissolves into the strange, quiet landscapes of dream and memory.
Hawthorn and Lavender, with Other Verses
William Ernest Henley
This collection of verse captures the sharp, bittersweet ache of a life nearing its winter, finding beauty in the "exquisite chromatics of decay" while holding fast to the memory of love.
Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads), vol. 2 of 2
Luís de Camões
A sweeping celebration of discovery and divine favor, this epic charts the treacherous sea-lanes to India, blending the grit of maritime exploration with the soaring interventions of gods and goddesses.
A Hermit of Carmel, and Other Poems
George Santayana
The search for meaning in a transient world is the central current of these verses, where the struggle between earthly desire and spiritual longing is mapped against the backdrop of history and nature.
Ballads of Beauty
Unknown
This collection of verse captures the Victorian obsession with the feminine ideal, offering a window into a world where beauty, virtue, and domestic longing were the primary colors of the heart. It is a sentimental journey through the nineteenth-century imagination, preserved in the amber of a long-ago printing press.
Goblins and Pagodas
John Gould Fletcher
The poet wanders through an inner landscape of shifting colors and sounds, seeking to reconcile the solitary self with a world caught in the throes of cataclysm. Through the medium of the "symphony," he captures the ephemeral nature of human experience.
Poems of love
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The danger of love is a fire that leaves hearts scarred, yet it remains the most intoxicating battle humanity ever dares to fight. This collection explores the perilous rapture of romance and the weight of moral duty in a changing world.
Successful Recitations
Unknown
To master the art of the stage, one must find the balance between the dramatic spirit and the simple, clear delivery of the human heart.
The Dread Voyage: Poems
Wilfred Campbell
In these haunting verses, a poet confronts the vast, desolate beauty of the Canadian wilderness and the inevitable passage of human life toward a final, silent shore.
Pan and Æolus: Poems
Charles Hamilton Musgrove
HOOK This collection of verse grapples with the eternal weight of human mortality, finding in the silence of nature and the turbulence of modern life a search for divine purpose.
A bold bad butterfly
Oliver Herford
A vanity-driven butterfly learns that taking bad advice can lead straight to an entomologist's pin.
Poems
William Anderson
A devout, quiet contemplation of natural landscapes gives way to a restless search for spiritual certainty and moral order.
A Jongleur Strayed: Verses on Love and Other Matters Sacred and Profane
Richard Le Gallienne
A wandering minstrel offers timeless verse for every lover, weaving romantic devotion, nature’s healing magic, and spirited defense of life's classic pleasures against a changing modern world.
A Sheaf of Verses: Poems
Radclyffe Hall
A traveler moves across forgotten forest roads and mountain slopes, watching light shift through the trees while weighing the brief spark of mortal love against the quiet certainty of loss.
Cactus and pine: Songs of the Southwest
Sharlot Mabridth Hall
Boundless horizons, harsh wilderness, and the relentless march of time shape this sweeping verse collection. It captures the rugged majesty of the Southwestern frontier through the voices of its pioneer miners, lone cowboys, and enduring natural landscapes.
Hymns and Poems
A. L. O. E.
An angel whispers patience to the afflicted, an Indian maiden steps between a captive and a club, and a penitent convict prays for mercy.
The song of the exile
Wilfred S. (Wilfred Stradling) Skeats
An exile sails from his native shore, carried away by a forced separation from the woman he loves and the quiet life he left behind. Across the Atlantic, his restless journey becomes a meditation on duty, faith, and the grand landscapes of a raw, burgeoning young nation.
His Lady of the Sonnets
Robert Winkworth Norwood
A speaker awakens from spiritual slumber to find transcendent love, navigating rupture and renewal before expanding his vision into dramatic monologues and devotional lyrics.
Orpheus and Other Poems
Edward Burrough Brownlow
The poet seeks to translate the wonders of the sky and the wayside flower into a language that ordinary observers often miss. Through rhythmic, classical verse, these collected works transform the quiet observations of nature into a meditation on mortality, love, and the enduring power of song.