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Songs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and AdventureSongs for the Open Road: Poems of Travel and Adventure 
by The American Poetry & Literacy Project
More than 80 poems by 50 American and British masters celebrate real and metaphorical journeys. Poems by Whitman, Byron, Millay, Sandburg, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, Robert Frost, Shelley, Tennyson, Yeats, many others. Note.

Selected PoemsSelected Poems 
by Emily Dickinson
Over 100 best-known, best-loved poems by one of America's foremost poets, reprinted from authoritative early editions. No comparable edition at this price. Index of first lines.

Leaves of Grass: The Original 1855 EditionLeaves of Grass: The Original 1855 Edition 
by Walt Whitman
Whitman's immortal collection includes some of the greatest poems of modern times, including his masterpiece, "Song of Myself." Shattering standard conventions, it stands as an unabashed celebration of body and nature.
The Road Not Taken and Other PoemsThe Road Not Taken and Other Poems 
by Robert Frost
A treasury of Frost's most expressive verse. In addition to the title poem: "An Old Man's Winter Night," "In the Home Stretch," "Meeting and Passing," "Putting in the Seed," many more. All complete and unabridged.

African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927 
by Joan R. Sherman
Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes. Introduction.

Early PoemsEarly Poems 
by Edna St. Vincent Millay
A treasure for Edna St. Vincent Millay fans — and anyone who loves poetry. The collection includes the complete selection of poems from her first three books: Renascence and Other Poems, A Few Figs from Thistles, and Second April.

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"Easter 1916" and Other Poems"Easter 1916" and Other Poems
by William Butler Yeats
Compilation of all the poems from The Wild Swans at Coole (1919) and Michael Robartes and the Dancer (1921) includes "The Second Coming," "An Irish Airman Foresees His Death," many others.

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100 Best-Loved Poems100 Best-Loved Poems
by Philip Smith
"The Passionate Shepherd to His Love," "Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?" "Death, be not proud," "The Raven," "The Road Not Taken," plus works by Blake, Wordsworth, Byron, Shelley, Keats, many others.

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100 Favorite English and Irish Poems100 Favorite English and Irish Poems
by Clarence C. Strowbridge
Compact anthology features many of the best works by 59 poets writing in English, among them Edmund Spenser, Christina Rossetti, John Milton, Robert Burns, and William Blake.


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101 Great American Poems101 Great American Poems
by The American Poetry & Literacy Project
Rich treasury of verse from the 19th and 20th centuries includes works by Edgar Allan Poe, Robert Frost, Walt Whitman, Langston Hughes, Emily Dickinson, T. S. Eliot, other notables.

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AeneidAeneid
by Vergil
Monumental epic poem tells the heroic story of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found Lavinium, the parent city of Rome, in the west.

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African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927African-American Poetry: An Anthology, 1773-1927
by Joan R. Sherman
Rich selection of 74 poems ranging from religious and moral verse of Phillis Wheatley Peters (ca. 1753–1784) to 20th-century work of Countee Cullen, James Weldon Johnson, and Langston Hughes. Introduction.


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The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other PoemsThe Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
by Oscar Wilde
Twenty-four important works focus on Wilde's poetic legacy, including The Ballad of Reading Gaol, "The Sphinx," "The Grave of Keats," "The Harlot's House," "To L. L.," 19 others.


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BhagavadgitaBhagavadgita
by Sir Edwin Arnold
Part of the great Indian epic the Mahabharata, the Bhagavadgita probes Hindu concepts of the nature of God and what man should do to reach him. Translation by Sir Edwin Arnold. Explanatory footnotes.


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Blake's Selected PoemsBlake's Selected Poems
by William Blake
Features 104 of Blake's poems: "A Song of Liberty," "The Argument," "Proverbs of Hell," "The Mental Traveller," "The Land of Dreams," "To the Evening Star" and many more.


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The Book of PsalmsThe Book of Psalms
by King James Bible
Beloved book of the Old Testament contains 150 hymns of praise, prayers of crisis and songs of faith. Reprinted complete and unabridged from the King James Version (1611) of the Bible.

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A Boy's Will and North of BostonA Boy's Will and North of Boston
by Robert Frost
Two early volumes of poetry (1913–1914) contain many of the poet's finest, best-known works: "Mending Wall," "After Apple-Picking," "The Death of the Hired Man," many more. Reprinted complete and unabridged.

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The Cavalier Poets: An AnthologyThe Cavalier Poets: An Anthology
by Thomas Crofts
Over 120 works — characteristically charming, witty and graceful — by poets associated with the court of Charles I of England: Robert Herrick, Thomas Carew, Sir John Suckling and Richard Lovelace.

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The Charge of the Light Brigade and Other PoemsThe Charge of the Light Brigade and Other Poems
by Alfred, Lord Tennyson
Treasury of verse by the great Victorian poet, including the long narrative poem, Enoch Arden, plus "The Lady of Shalott," "The Charge of the Light Brigade," selections from The Princess, "Maud" and "The Brook," more.

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Chicago PoemsChicago Poems
by Carl Sandburg
Written in the poet's unique personal idiom, these early poems include "Chicago," "Fog," "Who Am I?" "Under the Harvest Moon," plus more on war, love, death, loneliness, and the beauty of nature.

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Christmas Carols: Complete VersesChristmas Carols: Complete Verses
by Shane Weller
Complete lyrics for over 50 of the most popular, beloved carols: Away in a Manger, O Come All Ye Faithful, Joy to the World, Silent Night, It Came Upon a Midnight Clear, and many more.

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Civil War PoetryCivil War Poetry
by Paul Negri
A superb selection of poems from both sides of the American Civil War features more than 75 inspired works by Melville, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Whitman, and many others.

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Civil War Poetry and ProseCivil War Poetry and Prose
by Walt Whitman
Poems, letters, and prose from the war years include "O Captain! My Captain!" "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "Adieu to a Soldier," and many other moving works.

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Civil War Short Stories and PoemsCivil War Short Stories and Poems
by Bob Blaisdell
Compiled by an expert on Civil War literature, this anthology offers an outstanding selection of short works. Includes stories and poems by Whitman, Melville, Longfellow, Bierce, Alcott, Twain, Whittier, and many others.

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The Classic Tradition of Haiku: An AnthologyThe Classic Tradition of Haiku: An Anthology
by Faubion Bowers
Unique collection spans over 400 years (1488–1902) of haiku by greatest masters: Basho, Issa, Shiki, many more. Translated by top-flight scholars. Foreword and many informative notes to the poems.


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Complete PoemsComplete Poems
by Christopher Marlowe
Contains Marlowe's translations of Ovid's "Elegies" and the First Book from Lucan's Civil War, plus the unfinished "Hero and Leander" and the poet's most famous creation, "The Passionate Shepherd to His Love."


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