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  • Many by Poe, Dickinson, Nash, Key, and Other Baltimore Poets

    Selected poems from a collection of Baltimore poets

    Series series Baltimore Authors
    This volume contains selected works from several poets that are available in the public domain. All the poets have some connection to the city of Baltimore, Maryland, which was the primary reason for thieeir inclusion. The most famous of these poets are, of course, Edgar Allan Poe, who is, perhaps most famous for his macabre wrtings, but whose poetry is still valued today, Emily Dickinson, who is ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • Dog Stories for Christian Readers

    Stories for Christian Readers, #3

    Series Book 3 - Stories for Christian Readers
    Dogs bound and bark through this collection of comedy and adventure stories, Featuring brave dogs, shameless clown dogs, clever dogs, and a even a canine musician, this book of both contemporary and classic stories designed for Middle School and Junior High readers (and family reading) appeals to both boys and girls, providing short stories from classic writers, one naturalist, a world reknown ... Read more

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  • Audiobook

    Carnival of the Animals

    by Ogden Nash ...
    Narrated by Ted Danson ...

    Unabridged

    26 min

    This star-studded rendition of Ogden Nash's humorous verses—backed by a full-orchestra performance of Saint-Saëns' Carnival of the Animals—will surely delight adults and children of all ages. A great way to introduce children to classical music, youngsters will enjoy the animal depictions in the sounds of Saint-Saëns' composition.Performed by a menagerie of beloved actors and actresses—including ... Read more

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    ... poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.' Samuel Taylor ColeridgeThis glorious celebration of classic poetry features verse from around the English-speaking world. Carefully selected and divided into themed sections, the poems encompass the wealth of human experience - love, death, youth, old age, nature, travel and ... Read more

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  • The Epic of Gilgamesh

    Gilgamesh, King of Uruk, and his companion Enkidu are the only heroes to have survived from the ancient literature of Babylon, immortalized in this epic poem that dates back to the 3rd millennium BC. Together they journey to the Spring of Youth, defeat the Bull of Heaven and slay the monster Humbaba. When Enkidu dies, Gilgamesh's grief and fear of death are such that they lead him to undertake a ... Read more

    $10.79 USD

  • She Walks in Beauty

    A Woman's Journey Through Poems

    In She Walks in Beauty, Caroline Kennedy has once again marshaled the gifts of our greatest poets to pay a very personal tribute to the human experience, this time to the complex and fascinating subject of womanhood. Inspired by her own reflections on more than fifty years of life as a young girl, a woman, a wife, and a mother, She Walks in Beauty draws on poetry's eloquent wisdom to ponder the ... Read more

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  • Poems That Make Grown Men Cry

    100 Men on the Words That Move Them

    A life-enhancing tour through classic and contemporary poems that have made men cry: “The Holdens remind us that you don’t have to be an academic or a postgraduate in creative writing to be moved by verse….It’s plain fun” (The Wall Street Journal).*Grown men aren’t supposed to cry…*Yet in this fascinating anthology, one hundred men—distinguished in literature and film, science and architecture, ... Read more

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  • The Kalevala

    Translated by Keith Bosley ...
    Series series Oxford World's Classics
    The Kalevala is the great Finnish epic, which like the Iliad and the Odyssey, grew out of a rich oral tradition with prehistoric roots. During the first millenium of our era, speakers of Uralic languages (those outside the Indo-European group) who had settled in the Baltic region of Karelia, that straddles the border of eastern Finland and north-west Russia, developed an oral poetry that was to ... Read more

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  • Being Human

    the companion anthology to Staying Alive and Being Alive

    by Neil Astley ...
    Being Human is the third book in the Staying Alive poetry trilogy. Staying Alive and its sequel Being Alive introduced many thousands of new readers to contemporary poetry. Being Human is a companion volume to those two books – a world poetry anthology offering poetry lovers an even broader, international selection of 'real poems for unreal times'.The range of poetry here complements that of the ... Read more

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  • A Chapter of Verses

    The verses I have written over the past fifty years in many forms, and on many occasions. ... Read more

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  • Dirty Limericks

    by Anonymous ...
    Inside these covers you will find a collection of licentious limericks which have been handed down from generation to generation by word of mouth, some of them for over a hundred years. Until quite recently, few of these verses had ever appeared in print for public consumption, although many had been privately printed and circulated from time to time. This definitive collection of the world's ... Read more

    $2.56 USD

  • Parzival A Knightly Epic Volume 2 (of 2) (English Edition)

    Series series Parzival A Knightly Epic Series
    Example in this ebook BOOK X ORGELUSE Now tell we of strange adventures thro' which joy shall be waxen low, And yet pride shall grow the greater, of the twain doth this story show. Now the year of truce was ended, when the strife must needs be fought Which the Landgrave unto King Arthur at Plimizöl had brought. At Schamfanzon he challenged Gawain to meet him at Barbigöl, Yet still unavenged was ... Read more

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