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Lascelles Abercrombie . {2} . [Portrait] . [Wikipedia]

(1881 - 1938) English Poet, Playwright, Professor and Literary Critic; friend of Robert Frost and Edward Thomas

from Interludes and Poems: [1908]
- Roses Can Wound
- "All Last Night . . ."
- Hope and Despair
from Emblems of Love: [1912]
- Hymn to Love
from Georgian Poetry 1911-1912: [1918]
- The Sale of Saint Thomas (BB)
- The End of the World (BB)

Franklin P. Adams . {89} . [Wikipedia]

(1881 - 1960) - Influential American Newspaperman and parodist, known as a member of the 'Algonquin Round Table' literary circle and as author of 'The Conning Tower' newspaper column

Something Else Again [1920], the complete book of 86 poems and parodies
from Something Else Again:
- Lines on and from "Bartlett's Familiar Quotations"
- "It Was a Famous Victory"
- A Psalm of Labouring Life
- Lines on Reading Frank J. Wilstach's "A Dictionary of Similies"
- What the Copy Desk Might Have Done to: "Annabel Lee"
from Tobogganing on Parnassus [1910]:
- To Alice-Sit-By-The-Hour [1915] (BB)
Baseball's Sad Lexicon [1910] (BB)
from In Other Words [1912]
- Us Potes (BTH)
- A Ballad of Baseball Burdens (BTH)

Henry Brooks Adams . {1} . [Wikipedia]

(1838 - 1918) - American Historian, Novelist and Journalist; grandson of John Quincy Adams

Buddha and Brahma [1915] (WG)

John Quincy Adams . {2} . [Portrait 1] . [Portrait 2] . [Wikipedia]

(1767 - 1848) American Teacher, Diplomat, and Sixth President of the United States from 1825-1829

from Poems of Religion and Society [1848]:
- To the Sun-Dial [1840] (NM)
The Wants of Man [1841] (BB)

Sarah [Fuller] Flower Adams . {1} . [Wikipedia]

(1805 - 1848) English Poet and Writer of Hymns

Nearer My God to Thee [1840] (BB)

Joseph Addison . {4} . [Portrait] . [Wikipedia]

(1672 - 1719) English Essayist, Poet, and Politician

Ode (NM)
Hymn
from The Campaign:
- Marlborough at Blenheim
from Letter from Italy:
- The Blessings of Liberty

A.E. (George William Russell) . {15} . [Portrait 1] . [Portrait 2] . [Wikipedia]

(1867 - 1935) Irish Poet, Author, Critic and Editor; Irish Nationalist

from Homeward: Songs by the Way [1894]:
- By the Margins of the Great Deep (BB)
- The Hermit (BB)
- Inheritance (BB)
from The Earth Breath [1897]:
- Parting (BB)
from New Poems [1904]:
- Reconciliation (BB)
from By Still Waters: Lyrical Poems Old and New [1906]:
- Dana
- Remembrance
- Reflections
- Forgiveness
- Blindness
- The Vesture of the Soul
- The Twilight of Earth
- The Parting of Ways
- Song: Dusk its ash-grey blossoms sheds on violet skies
- The Virgin Mother

Conrad [Potter] Aiken . {28} . [Wikipedia]

(1889 - 1973) American Poet, critic, and author; winner of the 1930 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry for "Selected Poems"; U.S. Poet Laureate from 1950-1952

Senlin: A Biography - the complete cycle of 22 songs [1918]
from Senlin:
- Morning Song of Senlin [1918]
- Evening Song of Senlin [1918]
Discordants (including Bread and Music) [1914]
All Lovely Things [1916]
Selections from Turns and Movies [1916]
Selections from The Charnel Rose [1918]
Chiarascuro: Rose [1921]
Improvisations: Lights and Snow [1922]

Mark Akenside . {1} . [Wikipedia]

(1721 - 1770) English Physician and Poet

from The Poems of Mark Akenside, M.D. [1772]:
- Ode on a Sermon Against Glory (BB)
from The Poetical Works of Mark Akenside [1865]:
- To Cordelia
- The shape alone let others prize
- Inscription for a Grotto
- Inscription for a Statue of Chaucer at Woodstock
- Inscription for a Column at Runnymede
- Me though in life's sequester'd vale

Zoë Akins . {3} . [Wikipedia]

(1886 - 1958) American Poet, Playwright, Screenwriter and Author; winner of the 1935 Pulitzer Prize for Drama

Louisa May Alcott . {7} . [Portrait 1] . [Portrait 2] . [Portrait 2] . [Wikipedia]

(1832 - 1888) American Novelist, Playwright and Poet; best known for her novel Little Women

Thoreau's Flute [1863]
Lullaby [1863]
To the First Robin [1840]
Our Little Ghost (BB) [1866]
My Doves [1868]
The Lay of the Golden Goose [1870] (BB) - an autobiographical poem
Transfiguration [1878]
To Papa [1878]
A Little Grey Curl
A. B. A.

Fredric James Alden . {1}

Dartmouth Harbor [1893] (JL)

Richard Aldington [Edward Godfree Aldington] . {1} . [Wikipedia]

(1892 - 1962) English Imagist Poet, Anthologist and Author; War Poet; married H.D. (Hilda Doolittle); editor of The Egoist

Goodbye! [1923]
Childhood[1915]
The Poplar[1915]
Childhood[1915]
Round-Pond[1915]
Epigrams[1915]
The Faun sees Snow for the First Time[1915]
Lemures[1915]
Prelude [1919]
Images [1919]
At the British Museum [1919]

Anne Reeve Aldrich . {1}

American Poet

from Songs About Life, Love and Death [1892]:
- Recollection

Thomas Bailey Aldrich . {71}

(1836 - 1907) American Author, Editor, and Poet

Memory
Miracles (BB)
Enamored Architect of Airy Rhyme (NM)
Reminiscence (NM)
Heredity (NM)
27 Sonnets by Aldrich (BB)
The Sisters' Tragedy, a book of 34 poems by Aldrich in Bookshelf Format
Hesperides (BB)
Before the Rain
After the Rain

Cecil Frances Alexander . {1}

(1818 - 1895) English Poet

from Hymns for Little Children [1848]:
- All things bright and beauteous

William Allingham . {7}

(1824 - 1889) Irish Poet and Editor

from Poems [1850]:
- The Fairies (BB)
Amy Margaret's Five Years Old [1882]
from Blackberries [1884]:
- Writing (NM)
- Meadowsweet (NM)
from Flower Pieces and Other Poems [1888]:
- An Evening (NM)
- Half-waking
- Robin Redbreast

Washington Allston . {3}

(1779 - 1843) American Artist, Author, and Poet

from The Sylphs of the Seasons [1813]:
- And Now In Accents Deep And Low
On Rembrant
Boyhood

Alqamah . {1}

(6th Century)

His Camel (AK)

Anakreon . {58}

(6th Century) Greek Lyric Poet

Beauty (AK)
The Grasshopper (AK)
All Things Drink (AK)
English Paraphrases of the Odes of Anacreon - 55 odes translated by Thomas Stanley, Abraham Cowley, Thomas Moore, and Lord Byron (BB)

Albert Annett . {1}

American (New England) Historian, Author and Poet

Anarchism [1920]

John Armstrong . {1}

(1709 - 1779) Scottish Poet

Taste: An Epistle to a Young Critic [1753]

Sir Edwin Arnold . {3}

(1832 - 1904) English Poet and Journalist

from Potiphar's Wife and Other Poems [1893]:
- The Musmee (BB)
- A Song (BB)
- Sonnet to America (BB)

George Arnold . {2}

American Poet

Matthew Arnold . {19}

(1822 - 1888) English Poet and Critic, Professor of Poetry at Oxford

Kenneth H. Ashley . {51}

Rudkin [1923]

Margaret Lee Ashley . {1}

In April [1913] (BB)

Herbert Asquith . {5}

(1881 - 1947) English Soldier

from The Volunteer and Other Poems [1916]
- The Volunteer (BB)
- The Fallen Subaltern (BB)
- On a Troopship, 1915
- Venice
- Jewels

Alfred Austin . {2}

(1835 - 1913) English Poet and Editor; became England's Poet Laureate in 1896

Love's Trinity (BB)
from Is Life Worth Living? (BB)

Sir Robert Aytoun . {1}

(1570 - 1638) Scottish Courtier

To An Inconstant Mistress (BB)

William Edmondstoune Aytoun . {1}

(1818 - 1865) Scottish Poet and Parodist

from Lays of the Scottish Cavaliers and Other Poems [1848]:
- Blind Old Milton (BB)

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Philip James Bailey . {3}

(1816 - 1902) English Poet

from Festus: A Poem [1839]:
- Helen's Song (BB)
- We live in deeds . . . (BB)
- I loved her for that she was beautiful . . . (BB)

Joanna Bailley . {3}

(1762 - 1851) Scottish Poet

John Codrington Bampfylde . {7}

(1754 - 1796) English poet

Sonnet on a Wet Summer (NM)
Sonnet to the Redbreast (NM)
from Sixteen Sonnets [1778]:
- Sonnet on Christmas (NM)
- Sonnet on Hearing the Torture was Suppressed Throughout the Austrian Dominions, in Consequence of Beccaria's Treatise on Crimes and Punishments (NM)
- 'As when, to one who long hath watched' (BB)
- Written at a Farm (BB)
- On a Frightful Dream (BB)

Janet Norris Bangs . {1}

Care [1923]

Benjamin Banneker . {1}

(1731-1806) Publisher of an Almanac, vocal opponent of slavery, and street designer for the District of Columbia

A Mathematical Problem in Verse (JL)

Anna Lætitia Barbauld . {4}

(1743 - 1825) English Author and Hymnist

William Barnes . {1}

(1800 - 1886) English )Dorset Dialect) Poet

Evenén in the Village (BB)

Richard Barnfield . {1}

(1574 - 1627) English Poet

The Nightingale

Bernard Barton . {3}

(1784 - 1849) English Poet and Hymnist; the English "Quaker Poet"

Katharine Lee Bates . {3}

(1859 - 1929) American(Mass.) Educator, Author, and Poet

James Beattie . {2}

(1735 - 1803) Scottish Poet and Essayist

Law (BB)
An Epitaph (BB)

Thomas Lovell Beddoes . {12}

(1803-1849), English Physician, Anatomist, and Poet

from The Bride's Tragedy [1822]:
- Poor Old Pilgrim Misery (NM)
- A Ho! A Ho! (NM)
from Death's Jest Book, or The Fool's Tragedy [1850]
- If thou wilt ease thine heart (NM)
- To Sea, To Sea! (NM)
- The Swallow Leaves Her Nest (NM)
- A Cypress-Bough, and A Rose-Wreath Sweet (NM)
- Old Adam, The Carrion Crow
from The Poems, Posthumous and Collected [1851]:
- Song of the Stygian Naiades
- Song from The Second Brother (NM)
- Lines Written in a Blank Leaf of the Prometheus Unbound (NM)
- Let Dew the Flowers Fill (NM)
- Dream-Pedlary (NM)

Ethyl Lynn Beers . {2}

(1827 - 1879), American Poet

The Picket Guard (BB)
Which Shall It Be? (BB)

Aphra Behn . {2}

(1640 - 1689) English Author, Poet

[Joseph] Hilaire [Pierre René] Belloc . {29}

(1870 - 1953) English Author, Biugrapher, Poet, Journalist, and Essayist; born in France

from The Bad Child's Book of Beasts: [1896]
- Introduction (BB)
- The Yak (BB)
- The Dromedary (BB)
- The Elephant (BB)
- The Whale (BB)
- The Hippopotamus (BB)
- The Marmozet (BB)
- The Big Babboon (BB)
- The Frog (BB)
- The Lion
- The Tiger (JH)
from More Beasts for Worse Children:
- Introduction
- The Scorpion
- The Vulture
- The Microbe
from Cautionary Tales: [1907]
- Henry King 'Who chewed bits of string, and was early cut off in dreadful agonies' (BB)
- Jim 'Who ran away from his Nurse and was eaten by a Lion' (BB)
- Charles Augustus Fortescue 'Who always did what was Right, and so accumulated an Immense Fortune.'
- Rebecca 'Who Slammed Doors For Fun And Perished Miserably' (JH)
- Franklin Hyde 'Who caroused in the Dirt and was corrected by His Uncle' (JH)
- Godolphin Horne 'Who was cursed with the Sin of Pride, and Became a Boot-Black' (JH)
- Algernon 'Who played with a Loaded Gun, and, on missing his Sister was reprimanded by his Father' (JH)
- Hildebrand 'who was frightened by a Passing Motor, and was brought to Reason ' (JH)
- George 'Who played with a Dangerous Toy, and suffered a Catastrophe of considerable Dimensions ' (JH)
- Lord Lundy 'Who was too Freely Moved to Tears, and thereby ruined his Political Career ' (JH)
- Lord Lundy 'Second Canto' (JH)
from Verses: [1910]
- The South Country (BB)
from Sonnets and Verse [1923]:
- Ha'nacker Mill (BB)
- Tarantella (BB)

John Adams Bellows . {1}

Waiting [1893](JL)

William Rose Benét . {3}

(1898 - 1943) American Poet and Short-Story Writer; brother of Stephen

Stephen Vincent Benét . {33}

(1898 - 1943) American Poet and Short-Story Writer

Young Adventure [1918] - the complete book of 33 poems (BB)
campus Sonnets from Young Adventure:
- Before an Examination
- Talk
- May Morning
- Return --1917

Arthur Christopher Benson . {1}

(1862 - 1925) English Poet

February (NM)

Edmund Clerihew Bentley . {1}

(1875 - 1956) English Journalist and Novelist

from Biography for Beginners: [1905]
- Clerihews (BB)

Charles Best . {1}

(Late 16th/Early 17th Cent.) Elizabethan Gentleman

A Sonnet of the Moon (BB)

Francis Bickley . {1}

The Players (BB)

Ambrose [Gwinnet] Bierce . {41}

(1842-1914) American Soldier, Cartographer, Journalist, Satirist and Poet; best known for "The Devil's Dictionary", his horror stories, and his graphic accounts of the violence of the U.S. Civil War; spent most of his later life in San Francisco