Poems and Songs

8 best books like Poems and Songs (Robert Burns): The Poetry of Robert Frost, The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose, Chicago Poems, The Complete Poems, The Works of William Wordsworth (Wordsworth Collection), Selected Poetry, One Hundred and One Famous Poems: With a Prose Supplement, Selected Poems

The Poetry of Robert Frost

Author	Robert Frost
ISBN	0805005013

The only comprehensive gathering of Frost's published poetry, this affordable volume offers the entire contents of his eleven books of verse, from A Boy's Will (1913) to In the Clearing (1962). Frost scholar Lathem, who was also a close friend of the four-time Pulitzer Prize-winner, scrupulously...

The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose

Author	John Donne
ISBN	0375757341

This Modern Library edition contains all of John Donne's great metaphysical love poetry. Here are such well-known songs and sonnets as "A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning," "The Extasie," and "A Nocturnall Upon S. Lucies Day," along with the love elegies "Jealosie," "His Parting From Her,"...

Chicago Poems

Author

Carl Sandburg

Chicago Poems was published in 1916 and was Sandburg's first major volume of poetry. Most of the poems are about the city that he loved, and he viewed it as only a poet could; in it's starkness, it's beauty, and it's people. In it's first poem, the title poem, Chicago, Sandburg's first verse reads:

Hog...

The Complete Poems

Author	Walt Whitman
ISBN	0140424512

In 1855 Walt Whitman published Leaves of Grass, the work that defined him as one of America’s most influential voices and that he added to throughout his life. A collection of astonishing originality and intensity, it spoke of politics, sexual emancipation, and what it meant to be an American. From...

The Works of William Wordsworth (Wordsworth Collection)

Author	William Wordsworth
ISBN	1853264016

William Wordsworth (1771-1850) is the foremost of the English Romantic poets. He was much influenced by the events of the French Revolution in his youth, and he deliberately broke away from the artificial diction of the Augustan and neo-classical tradition of the eighteenth century. He sought to...

Selected Poetry

Author	Percy Bysshe Shelley
ISBN	0140585044

In the pantheon of English poets, Shelly has long occupied a lofty place, his poems as admired for their profound thought and subtle perceptions as for the music and fervor of their language. His life as well as his poetry embraced the passions, ideals and causes of Romanticism, whose emergence and early...

One Hundred and One Famous Poems: With a Prose Supplement

Author	Roy Jay Cook
ISBN	0809288311

The night has a thousand eyes,
And the day but one;
Yet the light of the bright world dies
With the dying sun.

The mind has a thousand eyes,
And the heart but one;
Yet the light of a whole life dies
When love is done.
~Francis William Bourdillon

This old...

Selected Poems

Author	Walt Whitman
ISBN	0486268780

In his unconventional verse, Walt Whitman spoke in a powerful, sensual, oratorical, and inspiring voice. His most famous work, Leaves of Grass, was a long-term project that the poet compared to the building of a cathedral or the slow growth of a tree. During his lifetime, from 1819 to 1892, it went through...