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Anne Killigrew - Poems (1686)

These are the original, tender and thoughtful poems of a young female artist who lived and died in seventeenth century London — only 70 years after William Shakespeare. Her diction is readily accessible to...

Arthur Krolman 1 hour 49 minutes

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Gilbert Frankau - Judgement of Valhalla

Gilbert Frankau was a prolific and popular British novelist who wrote both in prose and verse and had fifty works published over a fifty year period. He is considered one of the war poets of World War I. This...

Nemo 1 hour 38 minutes

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Rabindranath Tagore - Gardener

Most of the lyrics of love and life, the translations of which from Bengali are published in this book, were written much earlier than the series of religious poems contained in the book named Gitanjali. The...

Phil Schempf 1 hour 30 minutes

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Laurence Hope - India's Love Lyrics

The poetry of Adela Florence Cory aka Violet Nicolson, is some of the most unique and passionate in the English language. Under the pen name of Laurence Hope, her works were extremely popular in the early years of the...

Helen Williford-Lower 3 hours 37 minutes

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Gilbert Parker - Lover's Diary

A collection of 83 rather besotted love sonnets by Gilbert Parker, written early in his career, with an accompanying interesting and someone apologetic Introduction by the author himself. Sir Gilbert Parker, as he...

Michele Fry and 6 more 1 hour 48 minutes

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Walter Crane - Renascence: A Book of Verse

Walter Crane is better known as an artist and illustrator of children’s books. His illustrations defined a whole genre which influenced the field for many years. He was also involved in various socialist causes and...

Larry Wilson and 8 more 2 hours 40 minutes

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Family Life

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Christmas Miscellany

A selection of eight short works, chapters, or poems about Christmas. — Summary by david wales

David Wales 2 hours 3 minutes

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Jefferys Taylor - Æsop in Rhyme, with Some Originals

Jefferys Taylor was born in 1792 in Suffolk, England. He became apprenticed to his father who was an engraver and invented a special ruling machine for engravers but went on to emulate his mother who was a children's...

NoelBadrian 3 hours 1 minute

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George Murray - Poems

George Murray was a British poet, translator and scholar who lived out most of his life in Canada, where he was a classics master at a Montreal high school. In this collection, intermixed with his own original poetry,...

Tomas Peter and 8 more 5 hours 56 minutes

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Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert - Windfall and Waterdrift

This little square book, the colour of meadow forget-me-nots, is so modest and simple that it may very easily be passed over in a period which has little sympathy with tenderness of feeling and simplicity of...

Arthur Krolman 1 hour 50 minutes

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D. H. Lawrence - Amores: Poems

Amores is one of D. H. Lawrence's earliest works of poetry, published in 1916, was a precursor to his delving in free verse in later collections. The poems in this collection are characterized by haunting and dark...

NoelBadrian and 4 more 1 hour 40 minutes

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Children's Fiction

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Ann Hawkshaw - Cecil's Own Book

Ann Hawkshaw's fourth and final collection was published privately and named for her young grandson, Cecil Wedgwood. Written for children, the volume alternates prose with poetry and is lighter in tone than her...

Phil Benson 2 hours 37 minutes

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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