Poetry Books

Poetry is the art of distilled language, where rhythm, imagery, sound, and form converge to express the full spectrum of human emotion and experience. This genre encompasses epic poems and ballads, sonnets and odes, free verse and experimental forms. From ancient bards to modern voices, poetry captures moments of beauty, grief, love, and revelation with an intensity and precision that prose cannot achieve, making the ordinary extraordinary through the power of carefully chosen words.

299 books in this genre

The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses

The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses

Andrew Barton 'Banjo' Paterson (1895)

The Nibelungenlied

The Nibelungenlied

Anonymous (1200)

Ballads Done Into English From the French of Francois Villon

Ballads Done Into English From the French of Francois Villon

François Villon (2018)

Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England, by Robert Bell

Leaves of Grass

Leaves of Grass

Walt Whitman (1855)

The Romance of the Forest: Interspersed with some Pieces of Poetry

The Romance of the Forest: Interspersed with some Pieces of Poetry

Ann Radcliffe (1970)

The Mysteries of Udolpho, A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry

The Mysteries of Udolpho, A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry

Ann Radcliffe (2018)

A Book of Rhyme

A Bundle of Ballads

A Child's Garden of Verses Verse 158

A Defence of Poetry and Other Essays

A Defence of Poetry: An Essay

A Little Girl to her Flowers in Verse

A Love Story Reversed

A Poem on the Passion of the Lord

A Selection From The Lyrical Poems Of Robert Herrick

Addendum to the Later Poems in the Rossetti Manuscript

Advice to the Grub Street Verse-writers

Appendix to Poetical Sketches

Abrege de l Histoire Universelle depuis Charlemagne jusques a Charlequint

Across the Sea and Other Poems

Aesop, in Rhyme

Aesthetic Poetry

American Indian Myth Poems

American Poetry, 1922

Among the Millet and Other Poems

An American Papyrus 25 Poems

An American Papyrus: 25 Poems

An Online Book of English Verse

Ancient Ballads and Legends of Hindustan

Ancient Irish Poetry

Ancient Nahuatl Poetry

Ancient Poems, Ballads and Songs of England, by Robert Bell

Andromeda and Other Poems

Anglo-Saxon Poems

Artemis to Actaeon and Other Verse

Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric

Ashtaroth: A Dramatic Lyric

Astrophel and Other Poems

Australia Twice Traversed

The Ballad of the White Horse

Ballade at Thirty-five

Bab Ballads and Savoy Songs

Ballads and Lyrics of Old France with other Poems

Ballads in Blue China

Ballads of Mystery and Miracle and Fyttes of Mirth

Ballads of Peace in War

Ballads of Romance and Chivalry

Ballads of a Bohemian

Ballads of a Cheechako

Blanche Lisle and Other Poems

Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics

Briefless Ballads and Legal Lyrics

Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes

Bush Ballads and Galloping Rhymes

Canada and Other Poems

Cecily Parsley's Nursery Rhymes

Custer, and Other Poems

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

The Dark Lady of the Sonnets

De Libris: Prose and Verse

Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads

Departmental Ditties and Barrack Room Ballads

Discourse on Criticism and of Poetry (1707)

Discourses on Satire and Epic Poetry

Don Juan on Mars, Episode II

The Episode of Poke Soles

The Episode of the Arrest of the Colonel

The Episode of the Drawn Game

The Episode of the Drawn Game

The Episode of the German Professor

The Episode of the Japanned Dispatch-box

The Episode of the Mexican Seer

The Episode of the Old Master

The Episode of the Seldon Gold-mine

The Episode of the Tyrolean Castle

Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Early Poems of Ralph Waldo Emerson

Enchanted Tulips and Other Verses for Children

English Songs and Ballads

Favourite Fables in Prose and Verse

Fringilla, Some Tales In Verse

Georgian Poetry 1911-12

Green Fields and Running Brooks, and Other Poems

Helen Redeemed and Other Poems

Hero and Leander and Other Poems

Hindustani Lyrics

Imaginary Conversations and Poems

John Maynard A Ballad of Lake Erie

Laughable Lyrics

Leaves of Grass

Legends, Tales and Poems

Lilian Gray a Poem

Lundy's Lane and Other Poems

Lyrical Ballads, With Other Poems, 1800, Vol I

Lyrical Ballads, With Other Poems, 1800, Vol I

Lyrics of Earth

Mac Flecknoe and Other Poems

Miscellaneous Poems

Miscellaneous Poems

Miscellaneous Poems

Mont Blanc and Other Poems

More Bab Ballads

Music and Other Poems

Narrative and Lyric Poems

Notes to The Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley

Ode to the West Wind

Ode on a Distant Prospect of Eton College

Ode on the Death of ----

Ode on the Spring

Ode to Adversity

Old English Poems

Poems and Ballads

Poems From Letters

Poems From the Rossetti Manuscript Part I

Poems From the Rossetti Manuscript Part Ii

Poems From the Rossetti Manuscript Part Iii

The Poems of Ossian

Poetical Sketches

Parodies of Ballad Criticism

Phantasmagoria and Other Poems

Poems By The Way and Love Is Enough

Poems By a Little Girl

Poems In Two Volumes, Vol 1

Poems In Two Volumes, Vol 2

Poems and Ballads

Poems by Emily Dickinson First Series

Poems by Emily Dickinson Second Series

Poems by Emily Dickinson Third Series

Poems by George Meredith, Volume 1

Poems by Sappho

Poems by the Way

Poems of American Patriotism

Poems of Experience

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

Poems of Nature, Poems Subjective and Reminiscent, Religious Poems

Poems of Optimism

Poems of Passion

Poems of Purpose

Poems of Sentiment

Poems of To-Day, an Anthology

Poetical Works of Edmund Waller and Sir John Denham

Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

Poetical Works of Johnson, Parnell, Gray, and Smollett

Poetry and the Gods

Post-Augustan Poetry

Raiders of the Universes

Reverse English

Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance

Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance

Rhymes of a Red Cross Man

Rhymes of a Rolling Stone

Riley Farm-Rhymes

Rippling Rhymes

Romantic Ballads Translated from the Danish and Miscellaneous Pieces

THE SHIH KING, Or Book of Poetry

Sonnet England in 1819

Sonnet: England in 1819

Saltbush Bill, J P , and Other Verses

Saltbush Bill, J P , and Other Verses

Select Poems of Thomas Gray

Simple Poems on Simple Subjects

Some Poems by Sir Walter Scott

Songs and Sonnets

Sonnet LXIII The Gossamer

Sonnet on the Death of Richard West

Sonnet on the Death of Richard West

Sonnets from the Crimea

Sonnets to Sundry Notes of Music

Stories from the Ballads

Stories in Verse

Tales From Scottish Ballads

The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century

The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century

The Advance of English Poetry in the Twentieth Century

The Art Of Poetry An Epistle To The Pisos

The Bab Ballads

The Bab Ballads

The Ballad of Reading Gaol

The Book of Humorous Verse

The Book of Old English Ballads

The Book of the Duchess and other Poems

The Breitmann Ballads

The Bride of Corinth and Other Poems

The Code of Hammurabi

The Code of Honor

The Coming of the Princess and Other Poems

The Complete Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Poetry

The Complete Poetical Works of Constance Naden

The Crooked Man and Other Rhymes

The Culprit Fay and Other Poems

The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems

The Englishman and Other Poems

The Episode Of The Diamond Links

The Future of English Poetry

The Ghost Club An Unfortunate Episode in the Life of No 5010

The Gododdin Poems

The Green Helmet and Other Poems

The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems

The Habitant and Other French-Canadian Poems

The Hand in the Dark and Other Poems

The Humourous Poetry of the English Language

The Humourous Poetry of the English Language

The Kiltartan Poetry Book

The Listeners and Other Poems

The Love Sonnets of a Hoodlum

The Loving Ballad of Lord Bateman

The Man from Snowy River and Other Verses

The Manor House and Other Poems

The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols I and II

The Mysteries of Udolpho, A Romance Interspersed with Some Pieces of Poetry

The New Penelope and Other Stories and Poems

The Patriotic Poems of Walt Whitman

The Peter Patter Book of Nursery Rhymes

The Poem of Hashish

The Poems of Giacomo Leopardi

The Poems of Goethe

The Poems of Henry Kendall

The Poems of Henry Van Dyke

The Poetical Works Of Alexander Pope, Vol 1

The Poetical Works of Addison Gay's Fables and Somerville's Chase

The Poetical Works of Henry Kirk White

The Poetical Works of O W Holmes, Volume 1

The Poetical Works of O W Holmes, Volume 10

The Poetical Works of O W Holmes, Volume 11

The Poetical Works of O W Holmes, Volume 12

The Poetical Works of O W Holmes, Volume 2

The Poetical Works of O W Holmes, Volume 9

The Poetical Works of William Wordsworth, Vol III

The Poetry of Architecture

The Prophecy of Saint Oran and Other Poems

The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry

The Romance of the Forest Interspersed with some Pieces of Poetry

The Rowley Poems

The Sylphs of the Season with Other Poems

The Verse-Book Of A Homely Woman

The Voyageur and Other Poems

The Warrior's Return, and Other Poems

The White Bees and Other Poems

The Wild Knight and Other Poems

The Winding Stair and Other Poems

The Writings of James Russell Lowell in Prose and Poetry, Volume V

Two Poems Against Pope

Verse and Prose for Beginners in Reading

Verses 1889-1896

Verses and Translations

Verses for Children

Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift

Verses on the Death of Doctor Swift

Very Short Stories and Verses For Children

Volume I , The Works of Whittier: Narrative and Legendary Poems

Young Canada's Nursery Rhymes

Young Canada's Nursery Rhymes

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