John Donne was an English poet and a cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. This is a beautiful recording of Love Poems of John Donne read by the one and only Richard Burton.
Ralph Hodgson released this award winning poetry book in 1913 for which he received the Polignac Prize in 1914. His reputation as a poet rests upon a small number of publications. "The Bull, " " Eve ," " The Bells of Heaven ," and " The Song of Honour ," are regularly included in poetry anthologies.
On October 4th, 1888 poet Henry Abbey read these verses, at the Dedication of the Battlefield Monument to the Twentieth Regiment of New York State Militia, Eightieth New York Volunteers. Also known as The Ulster Guard due to their mainly Irish soldiers.
Elizabeth Drew Barstow Stoddard [1823-1902] was an American Essayist, Novelist, Poet, Short Story Writer. She was born in Mattapoisett, Massachusetts, a setting she drew on for her novels. In addition to editing books with her husband, Stoddard produced her own novels: The Morgesons [1862], Two Men [1865], and Temple House [1867]; she also wrote a book for children Lolly Dinks's Doings (1874), and this fine poetry collection, Poems [1895]
Cecil Roberts [1892-1976] was an English journalist, poet, dramatist and novelist. Roberts worked as a journalist on the Liverpool Post during World War I, first as literary editor and then as a war correspondent. From 1920 for five years he edited the Nottingham Journal. In 1922 he stood for Parliament for the Liberal Party. During World War II Roberts worked for Lord Halifax, who was British Ambassador to the United States. In 1912 he won the Kirke White memorial prize with a poem entitled ‘To The Trent’.
For killing an albatross, the mariner and his crew are punished with drought and death. Amidst a series of supernatural events, the mariners life alone is spared and he repents, but he must wander the earth and tell his tale with the lesson that "all things great and small" are important.
David Gray [1838-1861]was a Scottish poet, who was born on 29 January 1838 at Duntiblae-on-Banks of Luggie, Kirkintilloch, Dunbartonshire. He lived a very brief life and died after contracting Consumption at the tender age of twenty three. The Luggie, the principal poem of Gray, is a kind of reverie in which the scenes and events of his childhood and his early aspirations are mingled with the music of the stream which he celebrates.
Alan Seeger [1888-1916] was an American poet who joined the French Foreign Legion during the first world war, before America entered the conflict. Seegers most famous poem is Rendezvous which begins
This is the first volume of Poems by American poet and novelist Elinor Wylie, published in 1921. LibriVox recording of Nets to Catch the Wind by Elinor Wylie. Read by Dan Isaksson; Mary Kay; Bruce Kachuk; Ann Simmons; Jude Ibe; helenjjacobs; Julia Niedermaier; MariaS; Elise C. Boucher; Leonard Wilson
William Allen Butler's most famous satirical poem, Nothing to Wear, was first published anonymously in Harper's Weekly in 1857 (see 1857 in poetry), though Butler was forced to reveal his name after someone else claimed authorship. This edition come tastefully illustrated and is the best i could find on line for free.
On the 10th of January 1844 the Mona’s Herald published “Elegy on an ancient burying ground, bearing no trace of its origin. It was in fact the work of William Kennish and this volume was one of the first books of Manx poetry ever published. The burial ground William wrote about here is very likely to be Keeill Woirrey – St Mary’s Chapel, about one mile below the source of the Cornaa River on Clagh Ouyr and a mile and a half west of his birthplace
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Emily Dickinson has come to be regarded as one of the quintessential poets of 19th century America. A very private poet with a very quiet and reclusive life, her poetry was published posthumously and immediately found a wide audience. 
Renowned poet Emily Dickinson (1830 - 1886) wrote many many poems. This collection, "Poems: Series One", presents the first installment of the complete poetic works of Miss Emily Dickinson. It is broken into four parts: Life, Love, Nature, and Time and Eternity.
The Columbian Ode first publishd in 1892 was the poem which first brought Harriet Monroe to public notice, She wrote the poem in celebration of the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago.
Nora May French [1881-1907] was an American artist and poet, publishing only a few works during her brief lifetime. Her family, which was originally wealthy on her Mother's side [the 'Wells' of Wells Fargo], suffered a series of mishaps, including a drought which, along with the financial depression of the 1890's devastated their California ranch. Miss French was also unlucky in love like her title character in The Spanish Girl, a cycle of twenty two poems about a failed love affair. In 1907 she moved to live with poet George Sterling and his wife in Carmel, where she died by her own hand in November. Her friends published this collection of her poems in 1910. 
When first published Adela Florence Nicholson [aka Laurence Hope] claimed that these poems were translations from traditional Indian songs. Subsequently when it was discovered that the poems were actually original work it caused quite a scandal in Victorian Britian due to there explicit sexual content.
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Walter John De La Mare [25 April 1873 – 22 June 1956] was an English poet, short story writer and novelist. He is probably best remembered for his works for children and for his poem "The Listeners". He also wrote some subtle psychological horror stories, amongst them "Seaton's Aunt" and "Out of the Deep". His 1921 novel Memoirs of a Midget won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction[2] and his post-war Collected Stories for Children won the 1947 Carnegie Medal for British children's books. Motley, And Other Poems by Walter De La Mare was published in 1918.
