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Acrostic Poetry - The First-Ever Anthology by Michael Croland (Editor)
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
In this first-ever anthology, more than 80 acrostics show the versatility of a storied poetic form that dates back to ancient times. In standard acrostics, the initial letters of successive lines spell out words when read vertically. Highlights include Lewis Carroll's acrostic about the namesake of his ...Show more
King James Bible Book of Psalms by King James Bible,Dover Thrift Editions
Category: Reference | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
Beloved book of the Old Testament contains 150 hymns of praise, prayers of crisis and songs of faith. Reprinted complete and unabridged from the King James Version (1611) of the Bible. Among the best known and most quoted books of the Old Testament, the Book of Psalms contains some 150 hymns of praise, ...Show more
Lyric Poems by John Keats
Category: Gift | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
One of the greatest English poets, John Keats (1795-1821) created an astonishing body of work before his early death from tuberculosis at the age of 26. Much of his poetry consists of deeply felt lyrical meditations on a variety of themes -- love, death, the transience of joy, the impermanence of youth ...Show more
Song of Hiawatha by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Category: No Category | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
On the Mountains of the Prairie, On the great Red Pipe-stone Quarry, Gitche Manito, the mighty, He the Master of Life, descending, On the red crags of the quarryStood erect, and called the nations, Called the tribes of men together.From his footprints flowed a river, Leaped into the light of morning, O' ...Show more
The Classic Tradition of Haiku by BOWERS
Category: Gift | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
A highly distilled form of Japanese poetry, haiku consist of 17 syllables, usually divided among three lines. This unique collection spans over 400 years (1488-1902) of haiku history by the greatest masters: Basho, Issa, Shiki and many more, in translations by top-flight scholars in the field. Editor Fa ...Show more
There Once Was a Limerick Anthology: Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, Mark Twain, Carolyn Wells, Woodrow Wilson and Others by Michael Croland (Editor)
Category: Gift | Series: Dover Thrift Editions: Poetry Ser.
Humor buffs and poetry lovers will laugh out loud with this captivating collection of more than 350 limericks. A limerick is a five-line rhyming poem with a bouncy rhythm, and common varieties include geographical and bawdy limericks as well as tongue twisters and creative misspellings. Limerick legends ...Show more
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