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335 public-domain poetry books, summarised. Page 3 of 7.
Life Immovable. First Part
Kostes Palamas
A mind burdened by modern isolation yearns for wholeness, seeking truth in the ruins of ancient wisdom, the harshness of nature, and the unyielding spark of human spirit.
The Love Poems: (From Les Heures claires, Les Heures d'après-midi, Les Heures du Soir)
Emile Verhaeren
Two souls find sanctuary in a secluded garden, binding their lives together across a journey that deepens from youth’s fiery intensity to old age's quiet, unshakable devotion.
A Vers de Société Anthology
Unknown
The poet is a florist of the ephemeral, gathering the scattered blossoms of wit, romance, and social observation into a single, delicate bouquet. This collection preserves the fine art of saying everything—and nothing—with perfect grace.
Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics
Bliss Carman
The soul of a lyric poet, long lost to the erosion of centuries, finds a new, imagined voice in these verses of passion, memory, and the shifting tides of the Aegean.
The Bible, King James version, Book 19: Psalms
Anonymous
These ancient poems capture the raw, unfiltered spectrum of human emotion, from the heights of ecstatic joy to the depths of profound despair. They offer a timeless map of the soul’s struggle to find meaning in a turbulent world.
35 Sonnets
Fernando Pessoa
The gap between what we feel and what we can express is the primary tragedy of the human condition. In these verses, the struggle to reconcile the internal soul with the external world reveals that our true selves remain forever inaccessible, even to ourselves.
Poems we all love
Unknown
This collection serves as a moral compass for the early twentieth-century reader, gathering verse that champions resilience, faith, and the quiet dignity of a life lived for others. It offers a meditative survey of the human condition, framing life’s inevitable hardships not as reasons for despair, but as essential…
Poems
George Meredith
This collection of verse captures the transition from the lush, mythological romanticism of a young writer to the sharper, more socially conscious perspective of a man grappling with the complexities of the Victorian world. It is a work of restless intellectual energy, moving between the observation of nature and…
Buddhist Psalms translated from the Japanese of Shinran Shonin
Shinran
This collection of devotional poetry captures the profound surrender of a seeker who finds ultimate peace not in his own moral accomplishments, but in the boundless mercy of the Infinite. It remains a foundational testament to the Pure Land tradition, articulating a shift from rigorous, self-reliant asceticism to…
Music, and Other Poems
Henry Van Dyke
These verses offer a serene refuge, celebrating the quiet dignity of daily labor, the healing power of nature, and the enduring strength of human love.
A Voice on the Wind, and Other Poems
Madison Julius Cawein
The natural world is an enchanted tapestry where every breeze, bird, and blossom whispers secrets to those patient enough to listen. These verses map the transition from the vibrant heat of summer to the haunting quietude of winter’s threshold.
Anthology of modern Indian poetry
Unknown
Bound by no single voice or province, a vast landscape of longing and spiritual awakening opens across these gathered verses.
The Modern Scottish Minstrel, Volume 3.: The Songs of Scotland of the Past Half Century
Unknown
A broad cultural survey balances Greek antiquity against Scottish verse to uncover how a nation's popular songs preserve its living history and moral character.
The Feast of the Virgins and Other Poems
Hanford Lennox Gordon
Across sweeping verses of Dakota legends and Civil War battlefields, this Victorian collection yields a surprisingly raw, rhythmic view of nineteenth-century American conflict and myth.
Who Can Be Happy and Free in Russia?
Nikolai Alekseevich Nekrasov
Seven peasants meet on a high road and fall into an endless argument over a single question: who can live in Russia with happiness and freedom?
The Poets and Poetry of Cecil County, Maryland
Unknown
A forgotten county's verse reveals how ordinary rural lives, small-town griefs, and quiet local pride find unexpected immortality through communal song.
The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 2
William Lisle Bowles
A reflective journey through memory, faith, and the quiet beauty of the English countryside awaits within these verse collections.
A Little Book of Old Time Verse: Old Fashioned Flowers
Unknown
This collection of English verse gathers the enduring echoes of romantic longing, capturing the fleeting nature of beauty and the relentless passage of time through centuries of song. It offers a meditative retreat into the classic language of the heart.
The troubadours
Francis Hueffer
The troubadours of medieval Provence were not merely singers of romance, but the architects of a sophisticated literary culture that helped define the Western concept of courtly love and poetic artistry. This exploration serves as a vital bridge for those seeking to understand the historical reality behind the…
The Poems of Alice Meynell
Alice Meynell
The heart of this collection lies in the quiet, precise tension between the human soul’s yearning for the infinite and the inescapable constraints of mortal life. These poems are meditations on memory, faith, and the natural world, crafted with a restraint that renders every syllable essential.
A Christmas Faggot
Alfred Gurney
The humblest hearth finds warmth in this collection, where the sacred mystery of the Nativity is gathered into a small, flickering bundle of verse. These pages invite the reader to sit by a winter fire and contemplate the simple, profound grace of the Incarnation.
The Original Poems of Edward Edwin Foot, of Her Majesty's Customs, London
Edward Edwin Foot
This collection of verse captures the earnest, traditional spirit of a mid-Victorian civil servant seeking to preserve his thoughts in print. It offers an unvarnished glimpse into the mind of a working man in 1867 who found both purpose and relief in the disciplined craft of poetry.
Love's Old Sweet Song: A sheaf of latter-day love-poems gathered from many sources
Unknown
A collection of lyrical verse, this anthology captures the fleeting, perennial ache of romantic longing. It gathers the voices of poets from the turn of the century to explore the endurance of love across time.
The Deserted City
Francis Sherman
A soul navigates loss, doubt, and spiritual despair, seeking timeless love and divine mercy across a architecture of memory and grief.
Poems
Katherine Mansfield
A quiet, luminous collection of verse reveals a master story-teller capturing the fragile threshold between childhood wonder and adult grief.
The Poems of William Watson
William Watson
A young prince leaves his father’s palace on a lonely quest for an elusive vision, crossing enchanted seas and mortal shadows to find an emerald stone and his destined home.
Hindustani Lyrics
Inayat Khan
An elegant window into the courtly and mystical poetry of Northern India, bridging human longing, divine pursuit, and the soul’s eternal journey through love.
Os Lusiadas (The Lusiads), vol. 1 of 2
Luís de Camões
A courage-tested fleet navigates unmapped oceans, battling treacherous storms, deceitful rulers, and hostile pagan gods to forge a sea route from Europe to India.
Poems of To-Day: an Anthology
Various
These collected verses trace a nation’s changing spirit, moving from traditional inheritance and quiet landscapes to the sudden realities of modern war and mortal grace.
The treatment of nature in English poetry between Pope and Wordsworth
Myra Reynolds
The landscape of English poetry did not transform overnight; it evolved through a quiet, century-long shift in how writers observed the woods, the mountains, and the shifting skies of their own world.
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The poems of Winthrop Mackworth Praed. [selected]
Winthrop Mackworth Praed
These verses capture the fleeting, bittersweet elegance of 19th-century society, where wit serves as a necessary armor against the inevitable disappointments of love, politics, and the passing of time.
The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume 2 (of 5): New world idylls and poems of love
Madison Julius Cawein
This collection of verse captures the fleeting alchemy of the human heart, where the changing seasons of the American landscape serve as a mirror for the rise, decay, and haunting memory of romantic love.
The fugitive
Rabindranath Tagore
The universe is an eternal traveler, an "Eternal Fugitive" whose frantic, rhythmic movement breathes life into the stillness of space. This dance of light and shadow, urgency and peace, forms the heartbeat of a collection that explores the intersection of the divine, the human, and the natural world.
The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley
Percy Bysshe Shelley
A radical visionary speaks through these pages, his voice vibrating with the intensity of a mind that sought to unmake the world’s tyrannies and reconstruct them in the image of light. He is a poet of the heavens and the earth, a revolutionary who wields language like a blade to cut through the delusions of custom,…
Poems of James McIntyre
James McIntyre
A proud, earnest local chronicler turns the day-to-day realities of rural Ontario—from the intricacies of cheese production to the majesty of the Great Lakes—into sincere, unpretentious verse.
Ardours and Endurances
Robert Nichols
A young poet captures the shattering transition from the pastoral beauty of England to the mechanical, soul-cleaving violence of the Great War’s front lines.
The Kobzar of the Ukraine: Being select poems of Taras Shevchenko done into English verse with biographical fragments by Alexander Jardine Hunter
Taras Shevchenko
A voice of profound lament and fiery resistance, these verses capture the soul of a people under the yoke of empire. They remain a testament to the enduring power of a poet to speak for the voiceless.
The Triumph of Music, and Other Lyrics
Madison Julius Cawein
A maiden sings at a bedside until her song unintentionally steals her lover’s life; elsewhere, a knight murders his unfaithful queen after discovering her secret devotion to the King.
The World's Best Poetry, Volume 08: National Spirit
Unknown
This collection gathers verses that define the soul of nations, exploring how poets have memorialized the sacrifices, landscapes, and ideals that bind a people to their native soil.
Elias: An Epic of the Ages
Orson F. (Orson Ferguson) Whitney
A grand sweep across premortal councils, ancient Americas, and nineteenth-century frontiers framing a new religious restoration as the culmination of human history.
Poems
Iris Tree
Uncertainty and disillusionment echo through the city as a young poet searches for meaning amidst urban decay and wartime grief.
Sea Poems
Cale Young Rice
A solitary watcher stands where the rising tide hits the rocks, seeking a quiet mind within the endless, churning rhythm of the ocean.
Poems
Madison Julius Cawein
A soul attuned to nature's quiet miracles seeks eternal beauty through the Kentucky woods, wandering past phantom lovers, ancient ruins, and the slow decay of time.
The Poetical Works of William Lisle Bowles, Vol. 1: With Memoir, Critical Dissertation, and Explanatory Notes by George Gilfillan
William Lisle Bowles
A quiet melancholy breathes through these verses, turning distant shores and forgotten ruins into mirrors of human grief.
The Old Bush Songs
Unknown
A coarse, rowdy, and unexpectedly poignant choir of bushmen, convicts, and overlanders sings the true history of frontier Australia into being.
Hymni ecclesiae
John Henry Newman
HOOK This collection gathers the sacred poetry of the Church, preserving ancient Latin verses that transform the daily prayers of the faithful into a structured, transcendent conversation with the divine.
Foliage: Various Poems
W. H. (William Henry) Davies
This is a collection of verses that finds the miraculous in the mundane, holding the simple joys of nature against the crushing indifference of urban poverty. It is a lyrical meditation on the necessity of choosing beauty over bitterness.
Poems of Purpose
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
The journey of the soul is a battle against the trivial, a struggle to translate the fleeting passions of youth into a purposeful, lasting devotion to humanity and the divine.