World Poetry

Vampire Alley, by bestselling mystery and paranormal author J.R. Rain, is a spine-tingling, micro-story in a poem about a boy who comes face-to-face with dangerous creatures of the night... In Vampire Alley, a free-verse poem set in the world of Samantha Moon, a boy obeys a compelling urge to leave the safety of his bedroom and wander his neighborhood at night. In a dream-like state, he finds himself in a dark alley—but he’s not alone. Indeed, the boy becomes the sole eyewitness to a crime in progress, a despicable and horrific attack. He doesn’t believe in monsters or vampires. So ...

Honey Bee Poetry, by author Reneé Drummond-Brown, is the buzz all over town. You’ve heard the phrases: “Busy Bee, Buzzworthy Backstories, Mind your Own Beeswax, The Birds and the Bees, Bee Stung Lips, Make a Bee Line, Bee in One’s Bonnet, Spelling Bee, To Put the Bee On” well just as sure as one would say “NONE OF YOUR BEEZWAX” this book is your B.I. BUSINESS. Sum say, “Busy as a bee…” Well, that aptly describes the author to a T. Tone that is. Drummond-Brown is literally a single worker bee, who’s known to put in the time, grind and deposit hard-core literary labor of ...

T.S. Eliot was a towering figure in 20th-century literature, a renowned poet, playwright, and critic whose work - including "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" (1915), The Waste Land (1922), Four Quartets (1943), and Murder in the Cathedral (1935) - continues to be among the most-read and influential in the canon of American literature. The Essential T.S. Eliot collects Eliot’s most lasting and important poetry in one career-spanning audiobook, with an introduction from Vijay Seshadri, one of our foremost poets.

101 Famous Poems, compiled by Roy J. Cook and first published in 1916, is a collection of one familiar poem each by the best-known poets in the English language, including Alfred Tennyson, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Milton, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Whitman, Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson and William Wordsworth. The anthology is indexed by title, author and first line.

Lawrence L. Schwartz has been writing poetry of one sort or another throughout his life, from the time he was in grade school. Many of these pieces come out what could be called a “spiritual insight,” and tend to reflect personal experience and include metaphysical ideas and philosophy or concepts as they apply to everyday life, with commentary on our common humanity, as seen through the lens of a student of Eastern thought and interfaith studies. Many are distilled into rhyming verse, belying the complexity and scope of the concepts covered but with the intention to communicate them ...

Together, Hafez, a giant of world literature; Jahan Malek Khatun, an eloquent princess; and Obayd-e Zakani, a dissolute satirist, represent one of the most remarkable literary flowerings of any era. Here Dick Davis, an award-winning poet widely considered "our finest translator of Persian poetry" (The Times Literary Supplement), presents a diverse selection of some of the best poems by these world-renowned authors and shows us the spiritual and secular aspects of love, in varieties embracing every aspect of the human heart.

Following the innovative collection Spill, Alexis Pauline Gumbs's M Archive - the second book in a planned experimental triptych - is a series of poetic artifacts that speculatively documents the persistence of Black life following a worldwide cataclysm.

Weaving between the historical, cultural, and personal, award-winning author Philip Hoare reveals a web of creative minds and artistic iconoclasts fired by the wild and revolutionary genius of William Blake. Blake is one of the greatest artists in western history. His art envelops us. He invented a way to put words and images on a page to express his poetry and art in a manner that has never been truly equaled. Even in his own time, his fans and followers were left speechless.

نقوشٌ مقدَّسة محفورةٌ باللغة الآكادية على اثني عشر لوحًا فخاريًّا وُجدت تحت أنقاض القصر الملكي بالعاصمة نينوى، هذه هي ملحمة "جلجامش" أطول وأجمل نصٍّ أدبي وصلنا من ثقافة المشرق العربي القديم، لتروي لنا مغامرات جلجامش أول فردٍ في التّاريخ، ابن الآلهة والبشر فثلثه إنسان وثلثه إله وقد كان قاسيًا في حكمه يعيث في الأرض فسادًا حتّى قرَّرت الآلهة خلق ندٍّ له فجاء "أنكيدو" ليصبح أفضل أصدقاءه بعد عداوةٍ شديدة فتكتمل مغامراتهما سوية ورحلتهما في البحث عن الوجود والحياة والموت...

This book is a great book that tells the readers about my life. It's starts from very young to present years. You'll learn a lot about my life and some of my belief's. Enjoy the ride, but hold on!

Abraham Lincoln read it with approval, but Emily Dickinson described its bold language and themes as "disgraceful." And Ralph Waldo Emerson found Leaves of Grass "the most extraordinary piece of wit and wisdom that America has yet contributed," calling it a "combination of the Bhagavad Gita and the New York Herald."

At the end of his life, William Blake (1757-1827) gave up hope of being widely understood, but the twentieth century brought to his work a new and intense interest and acclaim.

Unlike most editions of Poor Richard, this one includes essentially all of the text, not just the aphorisms and sayings. This gives you, Courteous Listener, a much better appreciation of how Franklin wrote and thought. In particular, you will find that the full body of the Poor Richard almanacs contains a great deal of religious and spiritual thought in which Franklin laid out and propounded his understanding of Christianity as it stood in his day.

This award-winning anthology of poetry and prose takes a new look at being a woman - particularly an aging woman - in a society that prizes and glorifies youth. The works are by both younger writers looking forward in time and writers who have experienced the joys and challenges of growing older. This international best seller was put together by editor Sandra Martz who selected the collection's pieces from thousands of submitted manuscripts.

Immerse yourself in this award-winning book, recognized with 14 prestigious awards.The Lilacs I Once Knew is a collection of poems by Friddie Stoleru, born in 1919 in Bucharest, Romania. At 18, Friddie married a charming, charismatic scientist named Freddy; but their union was tragically short. Just two weeks after the wedding, Freddy disappeared, and Friddie was unjustly accused of a crime she had never committed. She spent nine years in a Romanian prison, followed by four years in a communist labor camp. Despite the harsh and inhumane conditions, Friddie found solace in writing poetry. ...

Here are some of the finest poems by Emily Dickinson (1830-1886), a unique voice in American poetry. She is known for her short poems, full of acute observations, and deft use of language. This careful but imaginative selection shows the remarkable variety she produced, despite the miniature nature of her medium.

Set during the fierce Trojan War, Troilus and Criseyde is the poignant tale of love won and lost. The beautiful Criseyde becomes the object of desire for Troilus, the son of King Priam, and he is able to win her affection through the machinations of his uncle, Pandarus. They experience a brief time of bliss together, but despite their vows of faithfulness, they are soon separated by the fortunes of war.

Amora dares explore the way women love each other - the atrophy and healing of the female spirit in response to sexual desire and identity. These thirty-three short stories and poems, crafted with a deliberate delicacy, each capture the candid, private moments of women in love. Together, these stories and the women who inhabit them reveal an illuminating portrait of the sacred female romance, with all its nuances, complexities, burdens, and triumphs revealed.

This book is a great book that will uplift your spirit, and make you smile. If you have lost a close love one that was close and near, then this book will bring back several memories and may make you smile plus drop a tear. Be happy till the end, so start reading this book from the very start till the very end. Now " Let's begin ! " Kiss!

First, thank you God for blessing me with a gift to uplift in poetry. I love helping others! Amazon best seller over one hundred times on the kindle. Author Kevin L. Timmons was born in Bartow, Florida, and raised in Polk County a native of Haines City, Florida. His first love was football while growing up as an adolescence, and he learned several ways of being very successful in becoming one of the best in the Nation in football. One of the college elite football players of all times, NFL camp rookie and veteran Beacon NFL camp in Tennessee. IFL- International Football League player while ...