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Songs 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.
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|  | Selected 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.
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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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|  | 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.
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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.
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|  | Early 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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| Products in Poetry |  |  |  | "Easter 1916" and Other Poems by William Butler Yeats This 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 more.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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|  | Aeneid by Vergil Monumental epic poem of Aeneas, a Trojan who escaped the burning ruins of Troy to found a new city in the west — Rome.
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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.
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|  | Best Poems of the Brontė Sisters by Emily, Anne, and Charlotte Brontė, Candace Ward Careful selection of 47 poems by talented literary siblings. Twenty-three poems by Emily, 14 poems by Anne, and 10 poems by Charlotte. Reproduced from standard editions. Publisher's Note.
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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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|  | Blakes 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 Boys 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 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 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 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, many more.
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|  | Civil War Poetry by Paul Negri Over 75 inspired works by Melville, Emerson, Longfellow, Whittier, Whitman, as well as Julia Ward Howe, Edwin Markham, many others.
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|  | Civil War Poetry and Prose by Walt Whitman Poems, letters and prose from the war years. "O Captain! My Captain!," "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd," "Adieu to a Soldier," many other letters and prose works.
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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, 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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|  | Complete Sonnets by William Shakespeare Over 150 exquisite poems deal with love, friendship, the tyranny of time, beauty's evanescence, death, and other themes in language of remarkable power, precision, and beauty. Glossary of archaic terms.
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