Poetry: American, British, and World

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Table of Contents of the Poetry CD

General and World

• Adventures in the Arts: Informal Chapters on Painters, Vaudeville, and Poets by Marsden Hartley
• The Dog's Book of Verse, Collected by J. Earl Clauson
• The Epic: an Essay by Lacelles Abercombie, 1914
• The Garden of Bright Waters: 120 Asiatic Love Poems translated by Edward Powys Mathers
• Gems of Poetry for Boys and Girls, 1850
• The Golden Treasury of the Best Songs and Lyrical Pieces in the English Language, selected by Francis Turner Palgrave
• Handy Dictionary of Poetical Quotations compiled by George Powers 1901
• Pastoral Poetry and Pastoral Drama [criticism] by Walter Greg
• Poems Every Child Should Know edited by Mary Burt
• Poems of Today, an Anthology
• Poems Teachers Ask For,
• book 1
• book 2
• Poetry for Poetry's Sake by A.C. Bradley, 1901
• The Principles of English Versification by Paull Franklin Baum
• Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance by Donald Clark, 1922
• Sleep-Book: Some of the Poetry of Slumber, collected by Leolyn Louise Everett
• The Troubadours by H.J. Chaytor
• Wine, Women, and Song: Mediaeval Latin Students' Songs by John Addington Symonds
• The World's Best Poetry edited by Bliss Carman
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 8
• volume 10

American Poetry

Collections and books about American Poetry

• The Book of American Negro Poetry edited by James Weldon Johnson, 1922
• Cap and Gown: a Treasury of College Verse selected by Frederic Knowles, 1897
• Gifts of Genius: a Miscellany of Prose and Poetry by American Authors
• Poems of American Patriotism edited by Brander Matthews
• Poets of the South by F.V.N. Painter
• Songs of the Cattle Trail and Cow Camp collected by John Lomax
• A Study of Poetry by Bliss Perry
• Treasury of War Poetry
• War Poetry of the South
• A Williams Anthology: Collection of Verse and Prose of Williams College 1798-1910

Henry Abbey

• Stories in Verse

Effie Afton

• Eventide

Horatio Alger, Jr. (1832-1899)

• Ballads

Young Ewing Allision

• Dead Men's Song, Being the Story of a Poema nd a Reminiscent Sketch of Its Author Young Ewing Allison by Champion Ingraham Hitchcock

Sophie M. Almon Hensley

• A Woman's Love Letters

Jared Barhite

• Our Profession and Other Poems

Joel Barlow

• The Columbiad

James Avis Bartley

• Lays of Ancient Virginia and Other Poems

Stephen Vincent Benet (1898-1943)

• Young Adventure
• Young People's Pride

William Cullen Bryant

• Poems

 Margaret Sprague Carhart (1877-?)

• Selections from American Poetry (editor)

Virginia Carter Castlman

• Pocahontas

Thomas Chard

• Across the Sea and Other Poems

W.E. Christian

• Rhymes of the Rookies: The Sunny Side of Soldier Service, 1917

Ebenezer Cooke

• The Sot-Weed Factor or a Voyage to Maryland
• The Sot-Weed Factor (another edittion)

Stephen Crane (1871-1900)

• War is Kind, 1899

Isabella Valancy Crawford (1850-1887)

• Old Spookses' Pass

Emily Dickinson (1830-1886)

• Series One
• Series Two
• Series Three
• All three series as a single document

Edward Doyle

• Freedom, Truth, and Beauty

William Henry Drummond

• The Voyageur and Other Poems

Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872-1906)

• Complete Poems

Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803-1882)

• Poems
• May-Day and Other Pieces

Eugene Field (1850-1895)

• A Little Book of Western Verse, 1889
• Echoes of the Sabine Farm (with Roswell Martin Field), 1899

Robert Frost (1874-1963)

• A Boy's Will
• North of Boston

Theodosia Garrison

• The Dreamers and Other Poems

Edgar A. Guest (1881-1959)

• A Heap o' Livin'
• Just Folks
• Over There
• The Path to Home

Frances E.W. Harper (1825-1911)

• Poems

Bret Harte (1836-1902)

• Complete Poetical Works

Oliver Wendell Holmes

• The Poetical Works of Oliver Wendell Holmes

Mary Gardiner Horsford

• Indian Legends and Other Poems

Hattie Howard

• Poems

Helen Jackson (1830-1885)

• A Calendar of Sonnets, 1886

James Weldon Johnson

• Fifty Years and Other Poems

Helen Keller (1880-1968)

• The Song of the Stone Wall, 1910

Joyce Kilmer (1886-1918)

• Main Street and Other Poems
• Trees and Other Poems

Archibald Lampman

• Lyrics of Earth

Sidney Lanier

• Poems of Sidney Lanier

Charles G. Leland (1824-1903)

• The Breitmann Ballads (in Pennsylvania Dutch)

Joseph Lincoln

• Cape Cod Ballads and Other Verse, 1902

Vachel Lindsay (1879-1931)

• The Chinese Nightingale and Other Poems
• The Congo and Other Poems
• General William Booth Enters Into Heaven and Other Poems

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ( 1807-1882)

• The Children's Own Longfellow
• Complete Poetical Works of Longfellow
• Evangeline(another version)
• The Golden Legend
• Longfellow's translation of Dante's Divine Comedy
• Song of Hiawatha
• The Wreck of the Hesperus
• essay about Longfellow
• The White Mr. Longfellow, from Literary Friends and Acquaintances by William Dean Howells

Amy Lowell (1874-1925)

• A Dome of Many-Coloured Glass
• Men, Women, and Ghosts
• Sword Blades and Poppy Seed

James Russell Lowell (1819-1891)

• The Bigelow Papers
• The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell
• The Function fo the Poet and Other Essays
• The Vision of  Sir Launfal and Other Poems

Edgar Lee Masters (1868-1950)

• Spoon River Anthology
• Toward the Gulf

Herman Melville (1819-1891)

• Battle-Pieces and Aspects of War, 1866
• John Marr and Other Poems

Edna St. Vincent Millay (1892-1950)

• A Few Figs from Thistles (short)
• The Lamp and the Bell
• Renascence
• Second April

Edgar Allan Poe

• Complete Poetical Works
• Eureka, Prose Poem
• Le Corbeau (The Raven translated to French by Stephane Mallarme)

Margaret J. Preston

• Beechenbrook: a Rhyme of the War

James Whitcomb Riley (1849-1916)

• Afterwhiles
• The Child-World
• A Defective Santa Claus
• Green Fields and Running Brooks
• Love Lyrics
• Songs of Home

Eleizabeth Madox Roberts

• Under the Tree

Edwin Arlington Robinson (1869-1935)

• The Children of the Night
• The Man Against the Sky
• The Three Taverns

Mrs. L.H. Sigourney

• The Man of Uz and Other Poems

Jean M. Snyder

• A Little Window, Verses

Charles Sprague

• An Ode Pronounced Before the Inhabitants of Boston, 1830

Richard Henry Stoddard

• Abraham Lincoln, an Horatian Ode

Sara Teasdale (1884-1933)

• Flame and Shadow
• Helen of Troy and Other Poems
• Love Songs
• Rivers to the Sea

Henry Van Dyke

• Golden Stars
• Poems

Ella Fraser Weller

• Nestlings, a Collection of Poems

Edith Wharton (1862-1937)

• Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verses

Phillis Wheatley, negro servant to John Wheatley of Boston (1753-1784)

• Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, Boston, 1773

Walt Whitman (1819-1892)

• Drum taps
• Leaves of Grass
• Poems

John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)

• Anti-Slavery Poems
• The Complete Works of John Greenleaf Whittier
• The Conflict with Slavery
• Narrative and Legendary Poems
• Old Portraits and Modern Sketches
• Personal Poems
• Poems of Nature
• Snowbound

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

• Custer and Other Poems
• Poems of Passion

Arabic Poetry

• The Madman: His Parables and Poems by Kahil Gibran (1883-1931)
• The Rubaiyat by Omar Khayyam, (11th century), translated by Edward Fitzgerald

Australian Poetry

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Collections

• An Anthology of Australian Verse Edited by Bertram Stevens

Adam Lindsay Gordon  poems, including:

• Sea Spray and Smoke Drift
• Bush Ballads & Galloping Rhymes
• Miscellaneous Poems
• Ashtaroth:  A Dramatic Lyric

Henry Kendall (1839-1882)

• Poems

Henry Lawson (1867-1922)

• In the Days When the World Was Wide
• Joe Wilson and His Mates
• On the Track

Andrew Barton `Banjo' Paterson (1864-1941)

• The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses
• Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses
• Saltbush Bill and Other Verses

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Canadian Poetry

Bliss Carman

• Ballads of Lost Haven, a Book of the Sea
• Behind the Arras
• More Songs from Vagabondia (with Richard Hovey)

W.D. Lightall

• Thoughts and Moods

John McCrae (1872-1918)

• In Flanders Fields

Duncan Campbell Scott

• Lundy's Lane and Other Poems

Wilfred S. Skeats

• The Song of the Exile, a Canadian Epic

T.F. Young

• Canada and Other Poems

Chinese

Collections

• More Translations from the Chinese by Arthur Waley

Danish

• The Death of Balder by Johannes Ewald, translated by George Borrow

English Poetry Anthologies and Criticism

• The Arte of English Poesie by George Puttenham (?-1590)
• Early Reviews of English Poets edted by John Louis Haney
• England's Antiphon by George MacDonald [history of religious poetry in Britain]
• A Full Enquiry into the True Nature of Pastoral by Thomas Puprney, 1717
• Giant Hours with Poet Preachers by William Stidger
• Georgian Poetry
• 1911-1912
• 1913-15
• 1916-17
• 1918-19
• 1920-22
• Humorous Poetry of the English Language by James Parton
• The Hundred Best English Poems, selected by Adam Gowans
• Lectures on t he English Poets by William Hazlitt
• Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland by Theophilus Cibber, volume 2
• Lives of the Most Famous English Poets by William Winstanley, 1687
• Lives of English Poets by Henry Cary
• Musa Pedestris -- three centuries of canting songs and slang rhymes 1536-1896 by John Farmer
• Selections from Five English Poets, edited by mary Litchfield, 1902
• Treasury of War Poetry

English Poetry Medieval

• Beowulf, translated by Francis Gummere
• The Old English Physiologus translated by Albert Cook

English Poetry 14th Century

• Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight (c. 1360) edited by Richard Morris

Geoffrey Chaucer (c. 1340-1400)

• Canterbury Tales and Other Poems
• The Canterbury Tales
• The Court of Love
• The Cuckoo and the Nightingale
• The Assembly of Fowls
• The Flower and the Leaf
• The House of Fame
• Troilus and Cressida
• Chaucer's Dream
• The Prologue to the Legend of Good Women
• Chaucer's A.B.C.
• Miscellaneous Poems
• The Complete Works of Chaucer, volume 4, The Canterbury Tales, edited by Walter Skeat (Oxford edition)
• Life of Chaucer by Adolphus William Ward

John Gower

• Confessio Amantis or Tales of the Seven Deadly Sins

British Poetry, 15th Century

• Arthur, a Short Sketch of His Life and History in English Verse of the First Half of the Fifteenth Century by Frederick J. Furnivall

British Poetry, 16th Century

Collections

• Elizabethan Sonnet-Cyucles edited by Martha Foote Crow, 1897

Anonymous

• A Joyful Meditation to All England of the Coronation of Our Most Natural Sovereign Lord King Henry the Eighth

Richard Barnfield

• The Affectionate Shepherd, 1594

Henry Constable

• Diana
• Diana, in Elizabethan Sonnet-cycles, edited by Martha Foote Crow

Samuel Daniel

• Delia, in Elizabethan Sonnet-cycles, edited by Martha Foote Crow

Michael Drayton

• Endimion and Phoebe
• Minor Poems of Michael Drayton, edted by Cyril Brett

Giles Fletcher

• Licia in Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles edited by Martha Foot Crow

George Gascoigne

• The Steele Glas

Everard Guilpin

• Skialetheia. 1598.

Thomas Lodge (1557-1625)

• A Reply to Stephen Gosson's Schoole of Abuse in Defence of Poetry,  Musick, and Stage Plays.
• Phillis, in Elizabethan Sonnet-Cycles edited by Martha Foot Crow
• Rosalynde

John Lydgate

• The Assemble of Goddes, 1500

Christopher Marlowe

• Hero and Leander
• Hero and Leander and Other Poems
• Works of Christopher Marlowe, volume 3, edited by A.H. Bullen

John Norden

• Vicisstiduo Rerum

Thomas Nash

• The Choise of Valentines

William Percy

• Sonnets to the Fairest Coelia (short)

William Shakespeare (1564-1616)

• poetry
• Lover's Complaint
• Passionate Pilgrim
• Rape of Lucrece
• Sonnets
• Venus and Adonis
• related materials
• glossary

Philip Sidney (1554-1586)

• Astrophel and Stella
• Defence of Poesie
• Lady of May (short poem)

Edmund Spenser (1552-1599)

• Amoretti and Epithalamion
• Astrophel and Stella
• Colin Clouts Come Home Againe
• Complaints
• Daphnaïda
• The Faerie Queene
• Letter to Raleigh
• Mutabilitie Cantos
• Hymnes
• Letters to Gabriel Harvey
• Mother Hubberd's Tale
• Poetical Works, volume 5
• Prothalamion
• The Ruines of Time
• The Shephearde's Calender
• Sonnets
• Teares of the Muses
• View of the Present State of Ireland
• Virgil's Gnat

English Poetry, 17th Century

Collections and Criticism

• Epistle to a Friend Concerning Poetry and the Essay on Heroic Poetry by Samuel Wesley
• Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham, edited by Geore Gilfillan
• The Pembroke Booklets, First Series, III: Nicholas Breton -- Pastoral Poems; George Wither -- Selected Poetry; William Browne of Tavistock -- Pastoral Poetry

John Beaumont

• Theatre of Apollo

Samuel Butler

• Hudibras

Thomas Campion

• Observations in the Art of English Poesie

Samuel Daniel

A Defence of Ryme
Delia

John Dryden

• Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry
• Macflecknoe
• Poetical Works edited by George Gilfillan
• volume 1
• volume 2
• about and in response to Dryden
• Anti-Achitophel, three verse replies to Absalom and Achitophel by Dryden

Robert Herrick

• The Hesperides and Noble Numbers, volumes 1 and 2
• Lyrical Poems

Thomas Heywood

•  A funerall elegie upon the death of Henry, prince of Wales. 1613. (short poem)

Richard Lovelace

• Lucasta

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Charles Mackay, editor

• Cavalier Songs 1642-1684

Andrew Marvell

• Andrew Marvell by Augustine Birrell

John Milton (1608-1674)

• Comus
• Four Poems
• L'Allegro
• Comus
• Il Penseroso
• Lycidas
• Poemata: Latin, Greek and Italian Poems by Milton (translated by William Cowper)
• Poetical Works(four books in one document)
• Miscellaneous Poems
• Paradise Lost
• Paradise Regained
• Samson Agonistes
• about Milton
• Milton by Mark Pattison
• Life of Milton, volume 5, 1654-1660, by David Masson

Richard Niccols

• The Beggars Ape

Rachel Speght

• Mortalities Memorandum
•  A Mouzell for Melastomus

Isaak Walton (1593-1683)

• Lives of John Donne, etc., volume 2

English Poetry, 18th Century

Collections and books about 18th Century English Poetry

• English Poets of the 18th Century edited by Ernest Bernbaum
• Poetical Works of Beattie, Blair and Falconer
• Cibber's Lives of the Poets
• Volume 1
• Volume 3
• Volume 4
• Volume 5

Joanna Baillie

• Poems, 1790

William Blake (1757-1827)

• Book of Thel (a poem)
• Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience

James Boswell (1740-1795)

• No Abolition of Slavery; or the Universal Empire of Love

Thomas Chatterton (1756-1770)

• The Rowley Poems

William Collins

• Odes

William Combe (1742-1823)

• The First of April

Ebenezer Cook

• The Sot-Weed Factor (cf. the John Barth novel)

William Cowper

• The Diverting History of John Gilpin
• The Odyssey of Homer, translator
• The Task and Other Poems

George Crabbe

• The Borough
• Inebriety and the Candidate
• The Library
• Miscellaneous Poems
• The Parish Register
• Tales
• The Village and The Newspaper

Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles Darwin) (1731-1802)

• The Botanic Garden (poem) 1788

Thomas Gray

• Elegie Wrote in a Country Church Yard (short poem)

Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)

• The Lives of the Poets
• volume 1 of 9
• Joseph Addison, Richard Savage, Jonathan Swift
• Gay, Gray, Thomson, Young, and others
• Prior, Congreve, Blackmore, and Pope
• volume 8, starting with Prior and Congreve
• Waller, Milton, Cowley
• The Vanity of Human Wishes

James MacPherson

• Fragments of Ancient Poetry (includes Ossian)

Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

• Selected Prose and Poetry

Alexander Pope (1688-1744)

• Essay on Man
• The Odyssey by Homer, translated by Pope
• Poetical Works of Alexander Pope
• volume 1
• volume 2
• The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems
• about Pope
• Alexander Pope by Lesllie Stephen

Christopher Smart

• Song to David (short poem)

James Thomson

• Winter (poem)

English Poetry, 19th century and later

Collections

• Selections from Wordsworth and Tennyson edited by Pelham Edgar

Lennox Amott

• The Minstel: a Collection of Poems

William Barnes

• Poems of Rural Life int he Dorset Dialect

Robert Bell

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

Arthur Christopher Benson

• Joyous Gard

Richard Doddridge Blackmore

• Fringilla: Some Tales in Verse

Robert Bloomfield (1766-1819)

• The Banks of the Wye (1811)
• The Farmer's Boy
• Mayday with the Muses (1790)
• Rural Tales, Ballads, and Songs

William Lisle Bowles

• The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles

E.W. Bowling

• Sagittulae, Random Verses

Patrick Bronte (father of Charlotte, Emily, and Anne)

• Cottage Poems

The Bronte Sisters (Charlotte, Emily, and Anne) together

• Poems (published under the pen names Currer, Ellis, and Acton Bell)

Rupert Brooke (1887-1915)

• Collected Poems

Elizabeth Barrett Browning (1806-1861)

• Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Sonnets from the Portuguese

Robert Browning (1812-1889)

• Blot in the Scutcheon (poem)
• Browning's Shorter Poems
• Christmas Eve
• Dramatic Lyrics
• Letters of Robert Browning and Eliabeth Barrett Browning, volume 1
• Men and Women
• The Pied Piper of Hamelin

• Browning's Heroines by Ethel Colburn Mayne
• Handbook to the Works of Robert Browning by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
• Introduction to Browing by Hiram Corson
• An Introduction to the Study of Browning by Arthur Symons
• Life and Letters of Robert Browing by Mrs. Sutherland Orr
• Life of Robert Browning by William Sharp
• Browning as a Philosophical and Religious Teacher by Henry Jones, 1891
• Robert Browning by G.K. Chesterton
• Robert Browing by Edward Dowden
• Robert Browning: How to Know Him by William Phelps
• Robert Browning by C.H. Herford

Frances Anne Butler (Fanny Kemble)

• Poems

Lord Byron (1788-1824)

• Childe Harolde's Pilgrimage
• Don Juan
• Fugitive Pieces
• Letters and Journals
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Works of Lord Byron
• Poetry volume 1
• Poetry volume 2
• Poetry volume 3
• Poetry volume 4
• Poetry volume 6
• about Byron
• Byron by John Nichol
• Critical Miscellanies by John Morley, volume 1, essay 3 Byron
• Lady Byron Vindicated by Harriet Beecher Stowe
• Life of Lord Byron by John Gall
• Life of Lord Byron, by Thomas Moore
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5
• volume 6

G.K. Chesterton

• The Ballad of the White Horse
• The Wild Knight and Other Poems

Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834)

• The Ancient Mariner and Select Poems edited by Frederick Sykes
• Biographia Epistolaris
• Confessions of an Inquiring Spirit
• Literary Remains of Coleridge
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• Lyrical Ballads (with Wordsworth)
• Poems
• Rime of the Ancient Mariner (poem)
• Specimens of Table Talk of Coleridge
• about Coleridge
• Life Samuel Taylor Coleridge by James Gilman, 1838

William Cory

• Ionica

Olive Custance (Lady Afred Douglas)

• The Inn of Dreams

George Eliot

• How Lisa Loved the King
• O May I Join the Choir Invisible!

Thomas Gent

• Poetic Sketches, 1828

William S. Gilbert, poetry (1836-1911)

• Bab Ballads
• 50 Bab Ballads
• More Bab Ballads
• Song of a Savoyard

A.D. Godley

• Lyra Frivola

John Gray

• Silverpoints

William Hayley (1745-1820)

• Poems on Serious and Sacred Subjects, 1818

Thomas Hardy, poetry (1840-1928)

• Moments of Vision
• Poems of the Past and the Present
• Satires of Circumstance
• Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses
• Wessex Poems

John Hartley (1839-1915)

• Yorkshire Ditties, second seris
• Yorkshire Lyrics

William Ernest Henley

• Hawthorne and Lavender and Other Verses
• Poems
• The Song of the Sword and Other Verses

Maurice Hewlett

• Helen Redeemed and other Poems
• The Village Wife's Lament

Thomas Hood (1799-1845)

• Poetrical Works of Thomas Hood

Gerald Manley Hopkins

• Poems

A.E. Housman

• Last Poems

Richard Jeffries

• Pageant of Summer

John Keats (1795-1821)

• Endymion, a Poetic Romance
• Lamia
• Poems 1817
• Poems Published in 1820

Charles Kingsley (1819-1875)

• Andromeda and Other Poems

Rudyard Kipling

• Years Between

Charles and Mary Lamb

• The Works of Charles and Mary Lamb, volume 4, poems and plays

Walter Savage Landor

• Imaginary Conversatiosn and Poems

D.H. Lawrence

• Bay, a Book of Poems
• Tortoises

Edward Lear (1812-1888)

• Book of Nonsense
• Laughable Lyrics
• Lear's Nonsense Drolleries: The Owl and the Pussy Cat and The Duck and the Kangaroo
• More Nonsense
• Nonsense Books
• Nonsense Songs

Felix Leigh

• One Foot Up and One Foot Down and that's the Way to London Town

Thomas Macaulay

• Lays of Ancient Rome
• about Macaulay
• Critical Miscellanies by John Morley, volume 1, essay 4 Macaulay

George Meredith, poetry (1828-1909)

• Poems
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• A Reading of Life

Alice Meynell

• Later Poems

William Morris, poetry (1834-1896)

• Chants for Socialists
• Pilgrims of Hope
• Poems by the Way
• The Way and Love is Enough

E. Nesbit

• All Round the Year (with Caris Brooke

Henry Newbolt

• Poems: New and Old

Wilfred Owen (1893-1918)

• Poems

Francis T. Palgrave

• The Visions of England: Lyrics of Leadning Men and Events in English History

William Stephen Pryer

• Rowena and Harold: a Romance in Rhyme of an Olden Time, of Hastyngs and Normanhurst

Christina Rossetti

• Goblin Market, The Prince's Progress, and other Poems
• Poems

Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882)

• The Germ: Thoughts Towards Nature in Poetry, Literature, and Art, edited by Dante Gabriel Rossetti
• The House of Life

Percy Bysshe Shelley (husband of Mary Shelley) (1792-1822)

• Complete Poetical Works
• Volume 1
• Volume 2
• Volume 3
• Adonais, edited by Willima Michael Rossetti
• Daemon of the World
• A Defense of Poetrey and Other Essays
• Peter Bell the Third
• The Witch Atlas

• Notes to the Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley by Mary Shelley
• Percy Bysshe Shelley by John Addington Symonds
• Percy Bysshe Shelley as a Philosopher and Reformer by Charles Sotheran
• Shelley by Francis Thompson
• Shelley by Sydney Waterlow

Robert Southey (1774-1843)

• Colloquies on Society
• Poems, 1797
• Poems, 1799

Algernon Charles Swinburne (1837-1909)

• The Age of Shakespeare
• Astrophel
• Atalanta in Calydon
• A Century of Roundels
• Channel Passage and Other Poems
• Chastelard
• A Dark Month
• The Duke of Grandia (play, short)
• Erechtheus
• Heptalogia
• Locrine
• A Midsummer Holiday and Other Poems
• Poems and Ballads
• Rosamund
• Songs Before Sunrise
• Songs of the Springtides
• Songs of Two Nations
• Studies in Song
• The Tale of Balen
• Various Poems

Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1809-1892)

• Early Poems
• Enoch Arden
• Idylls of the King
• Lady Clare (short)
• A Legend of Old Persia and Other Poems
• Queen Mary and Harold
• The Last Tournament
• The Princess
• The Supressed Poems of Tennyson, edited by J.C. Thomson

• Alfred Tennyson by Andrew Lang

William Makepiece Thackeray, poetry

• Ballads

Edward Thomas

• Poems
• Last Poems

Francis Thompson (1859-1907)

• New Poems
• Poems
• Shelley
• Sister Songs

W.S. Walker

• Gustavus Vasa and Other Poems, 1813

Oscar Wilde, poetry (1854-1900)

• The Ballad of Reading Gaol
• Charmides and Other Poems
• Poems
• Selected Poems
• about Wilde
• Oscar Wilde, His Life and Confessiosn
• volume 1
• volume 2

Thomas Woolner (1825-1892)

• My Beautiful Lady

William Wordsworth (1770-1850)

• Lyrical Ballads (with Coleridge)
• Lyrical Ballads with Other Poems, 1800
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Poetical Works edited by William Knight, 1896
• volume 1
• volume 2
• volume 3
• Poems
• volume 1
• volume 2
• The Prose Woorks of William Wordsworth, volume 1 of 3
• about Wordsworth
• Wordsworth by F.W.H. Myers

Finnish

• Kalevala, the Finnish national epic,
• in Finnish
• in English, translated by John Crawford

French

Medieval and Renaissance French Literature

• Ballads and Lyrics of Old France: with Other Poems, translated to English by Andrew Lang includes:
• Charles d'Orlean
• Francois Villon
• Joachim du Bellay
• Remy Belleau
• Pierre Ronsard
• Jacques Tahureau
• Jean Passerat
• also, 19th century poets Victor Hugo, Alfred de Musset, Gerard de Nerval, and Henri Murger
• Four Arthurian Romances by Chretien DeTroyes, in English
•  Erec et Enide
• Cliges
• Yvain
• Lancelot
• High History of the Holy Graal, anonymous continuation of an unfinished romance by Chretien DeTroyes, in English
• Le Romanz de l'estoire dou Graal by Robert de Boron
• with accents
• without accents
• The Song of Roland, anonymous, in English
• Poesie du troubadour Perie Raimon de Toulouse, edited by Joseph Anglade

Charles d'Orleans (1394-1461)

• Poesie de Charles d'Orleans

Francois Villon (1431-1463?)

• Oeuvres Completes

Collections and books about French poetry

• French Lyrics by Arthur Graves Canfield

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)

• Alcools, in French
• L'Hesesiarque et Cie., in French
• Les Trois Don Juan, in French

Charles Baudelaire (1821-1867)

• Les Fleurs du Mal
• Journaux Intimes

Boileau (1636-1711)

• Le Lutrin
• in French with accents
• in French without accents

Andre Chenier

• Poesies Choisies

Francois Coppee (1842-1908)

• Promenades et Interieures, in French

Tristan Corbiere

• Les Amours Jaunes, in French

Theophile Gautier

• La Comedie de la Mort, 1838

Remy de Gourmont

• Lettres a Sixtine

Jose-Maria de Heredia (1842-1905)

• Les Trophees

Victor Hugo (1802-1885)

• Poems 1888

La Fontaine (1621-1695)

• Fables
• Tales and Novels

Lamartine

• Les Origines et la Jeunesse de Lamartine 1790-1812, in French, by Pierre de Lacretelle

Le Comte de Lautreamont

• Les Chants de Maldoror

Pierre Louys (1870-1925)

• Les Chanson de Bilitis
• in French with accents
• in French without accents

Stephane Mallarme (1842-1898)

• Pages
• in French with accents
• in French without accents
• Le Corbeau (Poe's "The Raven" translated to French by Stephane Mallarme)

Comtesse de Noailles

• Les Vivants et Les Morts

Sully Prudhomme

• Les Vaines Tendresses

Camille Saint-Saens

• Rimes Familieres

Emile Verhaeren (1855-1916), Belgian who wrote in French

• Les Heures Claires

Paul Verlaine (1844-1896)

• Hombres
• Oeuvres Completes, volume 1
• Poems

Comte de Villiers de l'Isle-Adam

• Le Secret de l'Echafaud
• Tribulat Bonhomet

German, plus Flemish/Dutch

Collections and books about German poetry

• Light, Life, and Love: Selections from the German Mystics of the Middle Ages
• German Lyrics (in German)
• German Romantics: Peter Schlemihl by Adelbertb Chamiso, The Story Without an End by Carode, Hymns to Night by Novalis
• The Influence of India and Persia on the Poetry of Germany by Arthur F.J. Remy
• Translations of German Poetry in American Magazines 1741-1810
• Types of Weltschmerz in German Poetry by Wilhelm Alfred Braun

Wilhelm Busch

• Kritik des Herzens, 1914

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1749-1832)

• Erotica Romana (in English)
• Italienische Reise

Part 1, in German with accents

Part 1, in German without accents

Part 2, in German with accents

Part 2, in German without accents

• Poems, translated to English by Edgar Alfred Bowring
• Reineke Fuchs

in German with accents

in German without accents

• Roemische Elegien

in German with accents

in German without accents

• Venetische Epigramme

in German with accents

in German without accents

• West-oestlicher Divan

in German with accents

in German without accents

Heinrich Heine (1797-1856)

• Buch der Lieder

in German with accents

in German without accents

• Deutschland. Ein Wintermaerchen

in German with accents

in German without accents

• Poems in Flemish/Dutch

De Beurs Lact

De Franse Pers

Franse Toestanden

• Romanzero

in German with accents

in German without accents

Christian Morgenstern

• Wir fanden einen Pfad
• in German with accents
• in German without accents

Gotthold Lessing (1729-1781)

Ausgewahlte gedichte (in German)

• with accents
• without accents
• Lieder
• with accents
• without accents

Fredrick Schiller (1759-1805)

• Einige Gedichte
• in German with accents
• in German without accents
• Poems of the Second Period
• Poems of the Third Period
• Suppressed Poems

Greek

Hesiod

• Hesiod, Homeric Hymns and Homerica, in English, including:
• Works and Days
• Theogony
• Catalogues of Women
• Shield of Heracles
• Hermic Hymns
• Epigrams of Homer

Homer (see also, Hesiod for Homerica)

• Iliad
• translated to English by Andrew Lang, Walter Leaf, and Ernest Myers
• translated to English by Samuel Butler
• translated to English by Theodore Alois Buckley
• Odyssey
• translated to English by Alexander Pope
• translated to English by S.H. Butcher and Andrew Lang
• translated to English by Samuel Butler
• translated to English by William Cowper

Pindar

• The Extant Odes of Pindar, translated by Ernest Myers, 1874

Sappho

• One Hundred Lyrics by Bliss Carman, 1907

Theocritus

• Theocritus, Bion, and Moschus translated by Andrew Lang
• Theocritus, translated by C.S. Calverley

Indian

Collections and books about Indian Poetry

• Chaitanye and the Vaishnava Poets of Bengal
• Hindustani Lyrics, translated by Inayat Khan and Jessie Duncan Westbrook
• India's Love Lyrics by Laurence Hope
• Kalidasa, Translations of Shakuntala and other Works by Arthur W. Ryder
• Nala And Damayanti and Other Poems, translated by Rev. Henry Hart Millman
• The Tattva-Muktaval by Purnanda Chakravaitin

T. Ramakrishna

• Tales of Ind and Other Poems, 1896

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941)

• The Crescent Moon
• The Gardener
• The Post Office
• Songs of Kabir (translated by Tagore)
• Stray Birds

Irish

• Celtic Psaltery, translated by Alfrd Perceval Graves
• Heroic Romances of Ireland by A.H. Leahy
• High Deeds of Finn and Other Bardic Romances of Ancient Ireland by T.W. Rolleston
• The Kilkartan Poetry Book, prose translations from the Irish by Lady Gregory

Thomas Davis

• Thomas Davis, selections frmo his prose and poetry

Oliver Goldsmith (1730-1774)

• Complete Poetical Works
• The Deserted Village (short poem)

Sir Thomas Moore (1779-1852)

• The Complete Poems of Sir Thomas Moore

George William Russell (AKA A.E.) (1867-1935)

• By Still Waters
• Nuts of Knowledge, Lyrical Poems Old and New

Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)

• Poems
• volume 1
• volume 2

Italian

Collections and about Italian Poetry

• Modern Italian Poets by W.D. Howells
• The Sonnets of Michael Angelo Buonarroti and Tomaso Campanella translated by John Symonds
• Stories from the Italian Poets by Leigh Hunt
• volume 1
• volume 2

Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

In Italian, with accents La Divina Commedia

In Italian without accents La Divina Commedia

In English translation:

translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow -- The Divine Comedy

translated by the Rev. H.F. Cary -- The Vision or Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise

translated by Charles Eliot Norton

Hell

Purgatory

Paradise

about Dante

Dante: the Central Man of All the World by John Slattery

Ludovico Ariosto (1474-1533)

• Orlando Furioso, in Italian
• Orlando Furioso, in English

Ferdinando Fontana (1850-1919)

• Poesie e Novelli in Versi, in Italian

Giacomo Leopardi

• Poems of Giacomo Leopardi, translated by Frederick Townsend

Petrarch

• The Sonnets, Triumphs, and Other Poems of Petrarch, in English

Silvio Pellico

• Poesie Inedite
• volume 1
• volume 2

Torquato Tasso  (1544-1595)

• Jerusalem Delivered translated to English by Edward Fairfax

Latin/Roman

Ausonius

• Mosella, in Latin

Catullus

• The Carmina of Caius Valerius Catullus trans. by Sir Richard Burton
• The Poems and Fragments of Catullus trans. by Robinson Ellis
• Poems, in Latin
• Songs to Youth (short), in Latin

Horace

• In Latin
• Epodes (short)
• Songs, Book 1 (short)
• Odes and Epodes
• In English
• Odes and Carmen Saeculare, in English
• Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry, in English
• Works of Horace, translated by C. Smart
• in Latin and English
• The Art of Poetry
• about Horace
• Horace and His Infuence by Grant Showerman

Titus Lucretius Carus

• Of the Nature of Things, translated to English by William Emery Leonard

Ovid

• Fasti, in Latin
• Heroides, in Latin

Prudentius

• Hymns of Prudentius, translated by R. Martin Pope
• Poems, in Latin
• Poem 1
• Poem 2
• Poem 3
• Poem 4
• Poem 5
• Poem 6
• Poem 7
• Poem 8
• Poem 9
• Poem 10
• Poem 11
• Poem 12
• Poem 13
• Poem 14

Tibullus

• Songs, in Latin
• Book 1
• Book 2
• The Elegies, translated by Theodore Williams

Virgil

• Aeneid
• in English
• in English, trans.. E. Fairfax Taylor
• in Latin
• Eclogues
• in English
• in Latin
• Georgics
• in English
• in Latin

Portuguese Poetry

Fernando António Nogueira de Seabra Pessoa

• 35 Sonnets, in English

Romanian Poetry

Florentin Smarandache

• Formules pour L'Esprit, translated to French by Chantal Signoret

Russian Poetry

Collections

• Russian Lyrics, translated by Martha Bianchi, 1910

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837)

• The Bakchesarian Fountain and Other Poems
• Eugene Oneguine [Onegin], a Romance of Russian Life in Verse, translated by Henry Spalding

Scottish Poetry

Collections

• The Modern Scottish Minstrel by Charles Rogers
• volumes 1 to 6
• volume 2
• volume 3
• volume 4
• volume 5
• volume 6

W.E. Aytoun

• Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers

Robert Burns (1759-1796)

• Complete Works
• Poems and Songs
• Letters
• about Robert Burns
• Robert Burns, How to Know Him by Willaim Allan Neilson
• Robert Burns by Principal Shairp

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

• Songs of the Road

Bon Gaultier (= pseudonym of William Edmonstoune Aytoun and Sir Theodore Martin)

• The Book of Ballads

George MacDonald (1824-1905)

• A Hidden Life and Other Poems
• Poetical Works of George MacDonald, 1893
• volume 1
• volume 2
• Rampolli

David Rorie

• The Auld Doctor and Other Poems and Songs in Scots

Sir Walter Scott (1771-1832)

• Minstrelsy of the Scottish Border
• volume 1 of 3
• volume 2 of 3
• about Sir Walter Scott
• Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature by Margaret Ball

Robert Louis Stevenson, poetry (1850-1894)

• Ballads
• A Child's Garden of Verses
• Moral Emblems
• New Poems
• Prayers Written at Vailima
• Songs of Travel

Spanish Poetry

Collections

• Modern Spanish Lyrics, edited by Elijah Hills and S. Griswold Morley

Gustavo Adolfo Becquier (1836-1879)

• Legends, Tales, and Poems

Jose Campo-Arana

• Impresiones

Swedish Poetry

Johan Olof Wallin

• The Angel of Death

Welsh Poetry

• Mabinogion
• Poetry of Wales, edtied by John Jenkins
• Welsh Lyrics of the 19th Century edited by Edmund Jones, 1896

Matthew Arnold (1822-1888)

• Celtic Literature
• Sohral and Rustum and Other Poems
• about Matthew Arnold
• Matthew Arnold by G.W.E. Russell
• Matthew Arnold by George Saintsbury

Owen Edwards (1858-1920)

• Cartrefi Cymru (in Welsh)
• A Short History of Wales

Gwaith Twm o'r Nant (Cyfrol II) (in Welsh)

Aneurin (500? - 550?)

• Y Gododin (in Welsh and English)

John Ceiriog Hughes

• Ceirog (in Welsh)

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