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Recommendations... 100 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. Includes 13 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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| |  The 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. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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 Leaves 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.
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| |  African-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. Includes 4 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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 Great Short Poems
by Paul Negri
Outstanding anthology features more than 150 English and American masterpieces spanning over 400 years. "Death Be Not Proud," "The Tyger," "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud," plus works by Tennyson, Whitman, Dickinson, Yeats, Frost, others. Includes 3 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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| |  Selected Poems of Rumi
by Jalalu’l-Din Rumi
Over 100 of Rumi's most passionate lyrics include "The Children of Light," "The Man Who Looked Back on His Way to Hell," "The Pear-Tree of Illusion." Translated by R. A. Nicholson.
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Products in Poetry | | |  | "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 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. Includes 13 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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|  | 100 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. Includes 5 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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|  | 101 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. Includes 13 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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|  | Aeneid
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, 1773-1927
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. Includes 4 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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|  | The 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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|  | Bhagavadgita
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 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 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 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. Includes a selection from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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|  | The 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 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 Poems: Unabridged
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. Includes 2 selections from the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
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|  | Christmas 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 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 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 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 Anthology
by Faubion Bowers
Unique collection spans over 400 years (1488–1902) of haiku by greatest masters: Basho, Issa, Shiki, and many more. Translated by top-flight scholars. Foreword and many informative notes to the poems.
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|  | Complete 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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