Peter Yearsley

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Christina Rossetti - Uphill

Rossetti began writing down and dating her poems from 1842, mostly imitating her favoured poets. From 1847 she began experimenting with verse forms such as sonnets, hymns and ballads; drawing narratives from the...

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 20 minutes

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496

Bliss Carman - Behind the Arras: A Book of the Unseen

This is a volume of some of Bliss Carman's most beautiful narrative poems. All of the poems share a rather melancholy tone, which Carman uses to bring out beautiful images of feeling. — Summary by Carolin

Peter Yearsley and 7 more 1 hour 24 minutes

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Single Author Collections

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Edmund Gill Swain - Stoneground Ghost Tales

The Stoneground Ghost Tales is a collection of nine short stories set in and around a church and parish on the edge of England's fen country. The protagonist, the Rector of Stoneground, the Reverend Roland Batchel, is...

Dan Gurzynski and 6 more 4 hours 17 minutes

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Dhan Gopal Mukerji - Sandhya, Songs of Twilight

Dhan Gopal Mukerji wrote Sandhya, Songs of Twilight while in San Francisco, as a way to support himself and pay for his college education. This collection of poems has several references to his homeland, India. In...

Anusha Iyer and 4 more 1 hour 20 minutes

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Lewis Carroll - Rhyme? And Reason?

«I have had nor rhyme nor reason» is inscribed on the cover page of this book. These poems are then also some of the most phantastic poems published by Lewis Carroll, including such famous verses as Phantasmagoria and...

Anusha Iyer and 12 more 2 hours 14 minutes

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Rupert Brooke - 1914, and Other Poems

This is a volume of poems by Rupert Brooke, named after the famous poems «1914», written during and about World War I. Brooke himself died while taking part in a naval expedition to the Dardanelles, and was buried in...

Jael Baldwin and 5 more 1 hour 1 minute

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Bliss Carman - Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2)

Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life. The metropolis of this lyric realm was Mitylene of Lesbos, where, amid the...

Peter Yearsley 1 hour 22 minutes

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Edgar Allan Poe - Sleeper

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer, editor, and literary critic. Poe is best known for his poetry and short stories, particularly his tales of mystery and the macabre. Widely regarded as a central figure of...

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Bliss Carman - Epilogue

In 1904, Canadian poet Bliss Carman published Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, which was not just a translation of the fragments but an imaginative reconstruction of the lost poems. While of little to no scholarly value,...

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Essays & Short Works

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Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 042

Eighteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. Topics include biographies of astronomer Fiammetta Wilson, naturalist Alexander von Humboldt, mountaineer Jacques Balmat,...

David Wales and 11 more 7 hours 1 minute Short Nonfiction Collections

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Alfred, Lord Tennyson - Tithonus

Alfred Tennyson, 1st Baron Tennyson, FRS was Poet Laureate of Great Britain and Ireland during much of Queen Victoria's reign and remains one of the most popular British poets. «Tithonus» doesn't mean a whole lot...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 56 minutes

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Laurence Hope - Hira-Singh's Farewell to Burmah

Adela Florence Nicolson was an English poet who wrote under the pseudonym Laurence Hope. She was born in England and joined her father in 1881, who was employed in the British Army at Lahore (The traditional capital...

elliot and 7 more 25 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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