English Poetry Anthology

Lost and Found is an empowering poetry collection that explores the profound journey from darkness to light. Divided into two parts, this book explores themes of pain, pride and sin in Lost. In Found, you learn the joy of redeeming love, the peace of growing in faith and the glory of sanctification. This uplifting book brings you a powerful and positive message: when all feels lost, it’s not. God loves you and has a purpose for your life. Choose Lost and Found and start your inward journey toward love, hope, faith and happiness.

The night writers in Cousineau's vesperal collection range from saints, poets, and shamans to astronomers and naturalists, and tells of ancient tales and shining passages from the most brilliant (albeit insomniac) writers of today. These poetic ponderances sing of the falling darkness, revel in dream-time, convey the ache of melancholy, conspire against sleeplessness, vanquish loneliness, contemplate the night sky, rhapsodize on love, and languorously greet the first rays of dawn.

Dive into the mind of a poet during bouts of depression, anxiety, love, and insecurities.

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.

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.

The horror of the male experience during World War One was well documented in poetry, memoir, and fiction throughout the 20th century. Women's voices of despair, endurance and anger, however, have often been forgotten. These poems of political fury, widowed brides, industry undertaken, and sons and friends loved and lost, give a heartbreaking insight into the experience of women throughout World War One.

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.

One of the many joys of Christmas comes from the traditions associated with it. Best-selling author Caroline Kennedy drew on her own family's traditions to create this charming collection of favorite stories, poems, and writings that celebrate the holiday spirit.

DEFG is Volume 2 of The Alphabet Soup series by Aaron LaLux, the creator of Circular Pop Poetry—a style that blends rhythm, insight, and relevance into something entirely its own. This collection invites you to explore the raw, tangled threads of life, where meaning is found not in neat answers, but in the complexities that weave us together. From Dalai Lama Spaceship to Gypsy Friends & Fig Leaves, LaLux creates 100 poems that pulse with emotion and thought.

From being a resident physician during the COVID-19 pandemic to living passionately in travel, romance, and heartache, Rodolfo Villarreal-Calderon is a literary chef to an audience who did not realize their hunger—until served his Word Meal.

You have been looking for this book for quite some time. Pick it up to begin a journey into the deepest depths of the human psyche and the darkest corners of the imagination. Dare to delve into the human psyche's unspeakable corners and passages with this chilling horror anthology collecting some of history's greatest English poems.

Echoes of My Journey: A 20-Year Collection of Spoken Word is a captivating anthology by Dr. AK Sterling, formerly known as The Poet X, that takes listeners on an immersive literary odyssey spanning two decades of introspection, activism, and personal growth.

Expressions of Poetry by Montice Harmon is a beautiful collection of semi-confessional poems that speak about the poet's trials and tribulations. The poems are a kind of motivation for depressed minds and discouraged people to rise above their problems and face the world with a positive attitude. Most of Harmon's poems are prose poems. He takes prose poems to another level with this collection. The poems all deal with some aspect of the poet's personal struggles - his joys and sorrows - and they connect you with his spirit and inner mind.

Aside from a delicious fruit best enjoyed with chocolate, Black Cherry is a collaborative effort by 18 Black queer authors and poets sharing a singular vision. With stories and poems ranging from saccharine to downright sultry, Black Cherry is full of sensual delights. Black Cherry celebrates the unique, powerful, intimate connection between Black women. L.M. Bennett delivers her delightfully snarky short “Regards, My Dear", Dujuana Sharese drops truth bombs in the stunningly introspective “Self Deflection", and much, much more.

Robert and Elizabeth Barrett Browning were united not only as man and wife, but also as writers who shared and debated ideas, values, and literary craft.

With these captivating initial glimpses into her storytelling psyche, Jo Walton shines through subtle myths and reinvented realities. Through eclectic stories, subtle vignettes, inspired poetry, and more, Walton soars with humans, machines, and magic-rising from the every day into the universe itself.

This collection pays tribute in story and verse to our four-footed canine friends - those doggone dogs. You will find every kind of dog: loyal and devoted dogs, honest to a fault dogs, brave dogs, trouble-prone dogs, hungry dogs, bad dogs, misunderstood dogs, understanding dogs, comforting dogs, and many more. You will laugh, cry, and ponder as you listen to this delightful tribute to our dog companions. For, without them - and their doggy hearts - the world would be a colder, less interesting, and certainly less loving place. So here's to those doggone dogs!

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.

There is a day in March when people of Irish descent, in whole or part, and those who just wish to partake of the Shamrock Isle’s legendary hospitality, come together the world over to celebrate the world’s most popular national festival: St Patrick’s day. That day is March 17th, the traditional anniversary of his death in 561. Saint Patrick is the patron saint of Ireland and is acknowledged as the one who brought Christianity to its shores and drove out the snakes.