English Poetry

Known for his romantic and lyrical style of poetry, Yeats’s work was often inspired by Irish myths, spiritualism, love, longing and loss. His later work became more modernist in style, challenging poetic conventions and shifting to a political focus. In this definitive collection, you will find some of Yeats’s most noteworthy poems, written from the late nineteenth century right up until his death in 1939.

"and i don't think it's all my fault anyway" Here! We have more! The thing is, it never stops. The migraines, I mean. Skulk is about the end of all things, big and small and middling. Mortality, I suppose. From cosmic road trips to blood moon princesses, to where you were when the world ended, Skulk is an exploration of eighteen migraines in poetic catharsis.

Rebecca Winning’s book, Lullaby of Love: Selected Poems, takes you on a journey through her midwestern upbringing, relationships, deep connection with the natural world and meditations on finding meaning. It includes previously published poems from her early years, including poems from two chapbooks: A Cure for Backache (1977) and A Marriage Pact and Other Poems (1983), as well as 30 previously unpublished poems. The poems offer deeply personal reflections on love, loss, family, marriage, infidelity, divorce, healing, aging, death and new beginnings. Each poem crystallizes a point-in-time...

What the World Needs Now is Poems Sweet Poems Anthology, by author Reneé Drummond-Brown and mutually respected writers from across the globe who pen philosophical writings saturated in worldviews relating to: culture, subculture, principles, language, struggle, freedom, equality, inequality and war and peace. It has been said that poetry imitates life, therefore this Anthology gives the reader something of old, something new, something borrowed and ‘sum sho-nuff poetic blues.

#JustWords is a creative infusion of narrative poems along with stories about what inspired the poetry. As a fan of poetry, Varrsity always wondered what some of the worlds most famous poets meant by some of the poems they shared, what was the inspiration behind it, what was the deeper meaning? So he took it upon himself to tell the stories behind the poetry. #JustWords is far from your typical book of poetry, it will inspire, it will motivate, and it will make the reader “Feel” something.

Strange as it may appear, Draupadi, the most accomplished heroine of the Mahabharata, happens to be the most suffering, most sacrificing, and yet most misunderstood character from the epic. Though counted among the five supremely virtuous women, honoured as pancha sati in mythology, the name Draupadi still bears stigma and is often contemptuously uttered by people in society as the woman who brought about the greatest war of all time. Pratibha Ray makes a determined effort to present a balanced portrayal of the epic character.

It is said that life is full of surprises, and love for sure is one of those surprises that has some weird way of showing up into a person’s life. Sometimes you go somewhere looking for something else, and then suddenly you find that love is knocking on your door. You see that one person that glows like a diamond and the one who can make your world so special. You don’t know how to approach her, but then you find a way to greet her daily, either with a good morning or a hello or have a great day, you just care about knowing that she is on the other side even if she doesn’t know that ...

An accomplished poet and the author of Canadian Hungarian Literature (1897 - 2017), Frank Veszely brings to the English listener the rich treasure-house of folk, classical, and modern Hungarian poetry (1000 - 2020).

Mary Oliver has published fifteen volumes of poetry and five books of prose in the span of four decades, but she rarely performs her poetry in live readings. Now, with the arrival of At Blackwater Pond, Mary Oliver has given her audience what they've longed to hear: the poet's voice reading her own work.

Photos in my phone showed a memory of that awful day we stood in the rain We went away together but when we got back, your love for me was in vain But it took many years for all the pain to leave my body and my brain I deleted the memory so now even my phone should be able to refrain Be careful, because our phones have memories, that make us insane.

From the author of Dreams Reign Supreme and Constellation Chronicles, comes a collection of poems to delight readers worldwide. Surfing the Seconds has Vincent Lowry's finest poetry on nature, love, forgiveness, and mortality. Fans of Surfing the Seconds have described it as "beautifully written," "wonderful," and "evocative." Read the book and be carried away by Vincent's prose.

Why can't you see or hear me cry Sadly someday you will find out why Love is burning and the flames are high The fire is ignited and no regrets have I

The follow-up to the internationally best-selling sensation The Lost Words, The Lost Spells is an audio treasure that evokes the magic of the everyday natural world.

The Irish Classics Collection is a wide-ranging collection of 10 classic works of fiction and poetry by Irish authors, read by an award-winning cast of narrators. Included here are stories by some of the greatest writers of all time, including James Joyce; Bram Stoker; Oscar Wilde; W.B. Yeats; Elizabeth Bowen; and more.

JUST DON'T SAY IT'S MORE THAN YOU CAN TAKE, AND I WON'T BREAK ...

START WITH "FROZEN RED," FIND OUT WHAT HAPPENED TO THE GIRLS THEY FOUND DEAD, THEN READ "THIS ROSE HAS WILTED", BECAUSE WHAT WE DID, YOU WON'T GET OUT OF YOUR HEAD!

From Tiktok phenomenon Whitney Hanson comes a revised edition of her bestselling Home, now with a new introduction and more than a dozen new poems. Resonant, raw, and vibrant, Home is a lyrical map to navigating heartbreak. Tracing the stages of healing—from the despair that comes with the end of a relationship to the eventual light and liberation that comes with time—the poems in Home provide comfort and solace, while revitalizing your soul—and helping you make peace with your bees.

Down in the big construction site, tough trucks work with all their might. But now it's time to say goodnight! Little truck drivers will drift off to sleep to this soothing good-bye to the day.

Ceremony is a collection for those on the cusp of becoming. It is a reminder that we were not meant to fit into this world perfectly, but to live in such a way that might forge a path all our own. It is a reminder that we are one with each other and nature itself. It is a reminder that we contain within us the latent potential of every future possibility we can conceive of. It is a reminder that we often must release what is not ours in order to receive what is, that we are all born with a unique imprint to leave upon the world, and that self-love is not an infatuation, but a homecoming.

“Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my chamber door. "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door - Only this, and nothing more." Ah, distinctly I remember it was in the bleak December, And each separate dying ember wrought its ghost upon the floor. Eagerly I wished the morrow; vainly I had tried to borrow From my books surcease of sorrow - sorrow for the lost Lenore - For the rare and ...