Poetry (Bookshelf)

Poetry (from the Greek ποίησις, poiesis, "making" or "creating") is a form of art in which language is used for its aesthetic qualities in addition to, or in lieu of, its ostensible meaning.

Poetry has a long history. Early attempts to define it, such as Aristotle's Poetics, focused on the uses of speech in rhetoric, drama, song and comedy. Later attempts focused on features such as repetition and rhyme, and emphasised the aesthetics which distinguish poetry from prose. From the mid-20th century, poetry has sometimes been more loosely defined as a fundamental creative act using language.

—Excerpted from Poetry on Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia.

Anthologies

• The World's Best Poetry, Volume 3 

Children's

• Aesop, in Rhyme; Old Friends in a New Dress  by Park, Marmaduke
• Animal Children; The Friends of the Forest and the Plain  by Kirkwood, Edith Brown
• A Child's Garden of Verses  by Robert Louis Stevenson, text only version 
• The Infant's Delight: Poetry 
• The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes  by Jackson, Leroy F.
• Dramatized Rhythm Plays; Mother Goose and Traditional  by Richards, John N.
• Child Songs of Cheer  by Stein, Evaleen

• Lear, Edward, 1812-1888
  • A Book of Nonsense , Another version 
  • More Nonsense 
  • Nonsense Books 
  • Nonsense Drolleries
    The Owl & The Pussy-Cat—The Duck & The Kangaroo. 
  • Nonsense Song 
• Wells, Carolyn, 1862-1942
  • A Nonsense Anthology 

Romantic

Below follow the works of notable English and Scottish Romantic poets. The list is not comprehensive, but it does contain some of this editor's favorite poems, such as Shelley's "Mont Blanc," Keats's "On First Looking into Chapman's Homer," and Byron's "Darkness."

• The Complete Works of Robert Burns 
• The Complete Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley 
• Poems 1817 , by John Keats
• The Works of Lord Byron, Volume 4 
• Lyrical Ballads , by Samuel Taylor Coleridge and William Wordsworth

Modern

• The Waste Land , by T. S. Eliot
• The Collected poems of Rupert Brooke 
• Collected Poems 1901-1918 in Two Volumes by Walter De la Mare Volume I  Volume II. 
• Freedom, Truth and Beauty  by Edward Doyle (1851-?)
• Field, Eugene, 1850-1895
  • A Little Book of Western Verse 
  • Love-Songs of Childhood 
  • Songs and Other Verse 
• Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I.  Volume II. 
• Archibald Lampman, 1861-1899
  • Among the Millet and Other Poems  or Another version 
  • Lyrics of Earth  or Another version 
• Sidney Lanier 1842-1881
  • The Poems of Sidney Lanier 
  • Selected Poems of Sidney Lanier 
• George Parsons Lathrop, 1851-1898
  • Dreams and Days: Poems 
  • Rose and Roof-Tree — Poems 
• Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 1807-1882
  • The Song of Hiawatha 
  • The Complete Poems of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow 
  • The Song of Hiawatha 
  • The Wreck of the Hesperus 
  • Evangeline 
  • Evangeline, with Notes and Plan of Study 
• Amy Lowell 1874-1925
  • Dome of Many-Coloured Glass 
  • Men, Women and Ghosts 
  • Sword Blades and Poppy Seed 
• James Russell Lowell, 1819-1891
  • The Complete Poetical Works of James Russell Lowell 
  • The Vision of Sir LaunfalAnd Other Poems by James Russell Lowell  Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Julian W. Abernethy, PH.D.
  • The Vision of Sir Launfal And Other Poems by James Russell Lowell; With a Biographical Sketch and Notes, a Portrait and Other Illustrations (English) 
• Lays of Ancient Rome  by Thomas Babington Macaulay
• Collected Poems 1897-1907  by Henry Newbolt
• The New Morning  by Alfred Noyes
• Algernon Charles Swinburne 1837-1909
  • A Dark Month From Swinburne's Collected Poetical Works Vol. V 
  • Astrophel and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI 
  • A Channel Passage and Other Poems Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol. VI 
  • Poems and Ballads (Third Series) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III 
  • Songs of the Springtides and Birthday Ode Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne—Vol. III 
  • Sonnets, and Sonnets on English Dramatic Poets (1590-1650) Taken from The Collected Poetical Works of Algernon Charles Swinburne, Vol V. 

Renaissance

• La Divina Commedia di Dante , by Dante Alighieri
• Os Lusíadas , by Luís de Camões
• Pastoral Poems by Nicholas Breton,
  Selected Poetry by George Wither, and
  Pastoral Poetry by William Browne (of Tavistock) 

Middle English

• The Rowley Poems  (hoax Middle-English, written in the 18th century) by Thomas Chatterton
• Sir Gawayne and the Green Knight 

Old English

• Beowulf 
• Beowulf  Translated by Francis Barton Gummere.
• The Tale of Beowulf  Translated by William Morris and Alfred John Wyatt.
• Beowulf  Translated by Lesslie Hall.

Translations of Latin Verse

• The Aeneid , by Virgil. Translated into English by John Dryden.

Translations of Greek Verse

• Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics  Translated into English by Bliss Carman.