English Poetry Anthology

The ceremony itself is just two words: "I do". But lots more has been written about the anticipation, the event, and the aftermath, and The Voices of Marriage gathers the best poems ever written on this most extraordinary moment, at once the most private and the most public, in a person's life. From Shakespeare to our own day, here are poets whose lines sparkle with wit, or hush with mystery.

Here is an audiobook of the hugely successful Josephine Hart Poetry Hours at the British Library. Actors such as Roger Moore and Juliet Stevenson have read poetry from Auden to Eliot and from Larkin to Plath.

“A Chasm of Shattered Bodies” Luis Ángel Cobos presents a poetic work that traverses the devastated landscapes of humanity—a collection of verses that pulse with rawness and depth. Within its lines, a constant clash unfolds between the everyday brutality of dirty realism and the fascinating unreality of surrealism. Luis does not write poems but rather torn fragments of lives, emotions, and bodies desperately seeking to fit into a world that seems shattered. Each poem in this chasm is a leap into the void, an exploration of the darkest corners of the soul. Through images that ...

There Was an Old Woman (Who Lived in a Shoe): What do you do when you live in a shoe? Save up some loot and move to a boot! There Was a Crooked Man: Everything is a little crooked in this silly rhyme everyone loves to recite.

Shimmering Parts of Her is a collection of poetry that tackles emotional subjects such as relationships, love, desire, appreciation, regret, and loneliness. Uplifting to many, insightful to some, but precisely tailored for the curious at heart. Shimmering Parts of Her makes available to the reader the reenactment of the unique life events that molded the wise emotional lessons shared in this book. On page 62, we offer this poem: We Pretend that priceless way that we pretend that love is not that secret friend that keeps us friends - L.Q. Murphy

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Here are 60 of the greatest poems of all time: the art of three major French authors, Baudelaire, Victor Hugo, Paul Verlaine, translated into English with perfect accuracy and elegance, and carefully selected excerpts of Japanese poetry, for a world-encompassing literary culture and delight.

Mother Goose has been charming audiences for centuries, and this Classic Treasury of Nursery Rhymes features many beloved poems as well as some new favorites. Sit with little Miss Muffet on her tuffet, climb the hill with Jack and Jill, and baa with the black sheep in this timeless classic. This beautiful collection brings all of your favorite nursey rhymes to life for story time. A treasury of nostalgic tales from Mother Goose, this collection will encourage even the youngest of listeners to laugh and giggle as you read aloud some fun and sometimes silly rhymes.

If a Lurker is lurking, most likely they'll find you They wait and hide, until they no longer need too Lurking just to harm someone, this is so very true Like a chess player, strategically planning what to do The Lurkers are waiting on your very next move...

Pretty Evil Halloween Store: Open for business My favorite time of year will soon be here, new scary rhymes will soon appear, I love to write them yes that's true, won't you please read one or maybe two. Welcome and take a look around, but be careful not to get caught and placed underground The owner has a darkness in her eyes, that intensifies when evil satisfies her appetite, but beware of when she takes a bite, if her eyes turn white get out of her site, or this Halloween will be your biggest fright!

What happened here? in this house , on Lamplighter rd., no ones around, and the food is cold, hello, hello is anyone home, this house looks like a danger zone, to call nine one one, I reached for the phone, realizing I was standing, in a crime scene alone!

The Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyam, in the famous translation by Edward Fitzgerald, remains one of the most popular poems. Here, it forms the main work on the first half of this program, along with other shorter poems by other leading Persian and Indian figures, including Rumi, Sa'di, and Rabindranath Tagore.

In this volume of classic poetry our wordsmiths are our companions on journeys near and far. They describe and create worlds that we can explore with them, word by word and line by line. In the company of Keats, Wordsworth, Bronte, Whitman, Kipling and a wealth of others these journeys in verse will be like no other.

Our homes are a reflection of us. They say something about ourselves, our families and who we are. This book is about growing up in my mother's house from the 1970s in the inner city of Nottingham, England. Each room in our house had a purpose, playing a part in our family life. Through the stories and poems in each chapter of the book, you can take a glimpse into each room of the house and my experiences in a large Caribbean family, from child to adult. The rooms of my mother's house may be different to yours, but they tell of belonging and becoming.

As scholars of African American literature and cultural history, Bennett and McCarthy repeatedly find themselves struck by the number of exciting poets they come across in long-out-of-print collections and forgotten journals, whose work has been neglected and, in some cases, entirely ignored, even by those academic circles devoted to the study of Black poetry. Minor Notes is an excavation initiative that addresses this problem by recovering archival materials from these understudied, though supremely gifted, African American poets of the 19th and 20th centuries.

‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears.

Andrew Barton 'Banjo" Paterson (1864 - 1941) may be considered the unofficial poet laureate of Australia. After training as a solicitor he began contributing verse to the Sydney "Bulletin" under the pseudonym of "The Banjo", taken from the name of a horse. His first collection, "The Man from Snowy River", was published in 1895. Two further collections followed: Rio Grande's Last Race and Other Verses in 1902 and Saltbush Bill, JP. and Other Verses in 1917.

When your life changes where do you find yourself? How do you find yourself? This is a collection of short stories and poems describing the journeys of these women as they cope with life, accept the changes, and discover their new selves.

In this treasury of passionate and humorous encounters with the vibrant world of animals, Stephen Mitchell has collected animal poems from many ages and many cultures. He includes excerpts from ancient masterpieces like, The Hymn to the Sun by Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, The Book of Job, and The Book of Psalms; haiku by Basho, Buson, and Issa; poems by Milton and Smart, Blake and Burns, Whitman and Emily Dickenson, Hardy and Hopkins.

In this collection, you’ll find stories conveyed through poetry and song. Some of them will no doubt be familiar to you - like Francis Scott Key’s Star Spangled Banner and Julia Ward Howe’s Battle Hymn of the Republic (although many people are only familiar with the first verse). Other poems will be entirely new to you. My hope is that you’ll embrace both the familiar and the unfamiliar as pieces of the American story that deserve to be remembered.