Casey at the Bat
by Ernest Lawrence Thayer
The Mudville Nine's star player is their only hope for winning the game.
Poetry is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic qualities to create a deeper meaning.
The Mudville Nine's star player is their only hope for winning the game.
Included here are selections from A Child's Garden of Verses, a collection of poetry by Robert Louis Stevenson originally published in 1900.
The Heart of Happy Hollow is a short story collection by Paul Laurence Dunbar that focuses on the experiences of African-Americans after the conclusion of the Civil War.
This anthology collects poetry and other writings of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow.
This is a collection of poetry by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar's work frequently features a conversational tone, innovative rhetorical structure, and a colorful use of both dialect and mainstream English. Dunbar was among the first nationally successful African American writers.
This is a collection of poetry by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar's work frequently features a conversational tone, innovative rhetorical structure, and a colorful use of both dialect and mainstream English. Dunbar was among the first nationally successful African American writers.
This poem is by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar's work frequently features a conversational tone, innovative rhetorical structure, and a colorful use of both dialect and mainstream English. Dunbar was among the first nationally successful African American writers.
This is a collection of poetry by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar's work frequently features a conversational tone, innovative rhetorical structure, and a colorful use of both dialect and mainstream English. Dunbar was among the first nationally successful African American writers.
This is a collection of poetry by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar's work frequently features a conversational tone, innovative rhetorical structure, and a colorful use of both dialect and mainstream English. Dunbar was among the first nationally successful African American writers.
This is a collection of poetry by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar's work frequently features a conversational tone, innovative rhetorical structure, and a colorful use of both dialect and mainstream English. Dunbar was among the first nationally successful African American writers.
This is a collection of poetry by African American author Paul Laurence Dunbar. Dunbar's work frequently features a conversational tone, innovative rhetorical structure, and a colorful use of both dialect and mainstream English. Dunbar was among the first nationally successful African American writers.
The Legends are a variety of romantic tales.
This book collects poems and limericks by British writer Edward Lear and includes selections from several 19th century anthologies.
This collection includes poems written by Emily Brontë and originally published under the androgynous pen name Ellis Bell.
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete is a compilation of the poetry of Emily Dickinson in three different series, each composed of the following subjects: Life, Love, Nature, Time and Eternity.
Poems by Emily Dickinson, Three Series, Complete is a compilation of the poetry of Emily Dickinson in three different series, each composed of the following subjects: Life, Love, Nature, Time and Eternity.
Poems on Various Subjects, Religious and Moral, is a collection of poetry by Phillis Wheatley, the first African American woman ever to be published.
Lewis Carroll, author of Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass, also compoosed logic puzzles, riddles, and satirical poems. This collection includes several that were including in longer works and those intended to stand alone.
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the longest major poem by the English poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge, written in 1797-98 and published in the first edition of Lyrical Ballads in 1798. Along with other poems in Lyrical Ballads, it was a signal shift to modern poetry and the beginning of British Romantic literature.
Spanning the Atlantic, this collection brings together classic poetry from two traditions.
Songs of the Wind on a Southern Shore, and other Poems of Florida is a collection of George E. Merrick's poetry celebrating the natural beauty of Florida.
Shakespeare's sonnets is a collection of 154 poems in sonnet form written by William Shakespeare that deal with such themes as love, beauty, politics, and mortality.
An unexpected house guest arrives on Christmas night.
A child’s nursery rhyme involving multiplication.
The speaker describes the beauty and emotion of Cocoanut Grove.
The author describes a sunset on the coast.
A poem describing the beauty of Florida at sunrise.
The speaker describes and reflects upon the scenery of a Florida beach.
The speaker describes the state of Florida, a land of beauty, hard work, and promise. It seems a place where the future begins.
The author describes the pursuit of the mythical Fountain of Youth.
The author marvels at the flat nature of his surroundings.
The author is witness to a mockingbird's supper.
The poet reflects on the world at noon, while laying back and dozing.
The author imagines the many miles his orange buds have traveled to go from the Florida sun to snow covered New Jersey.
A poem about the orange tree.
The author contemplates the cyclical and temporary nature of life.
A robin has a meal under an orange-tree.
A poem about waiting for a train at the Live Oak, Florida Junction written in the 1800s.
The author describes a much revered flower that decorates the landscape of Florida.
The author discusses the stature and symbolism of soon to be constructed Statue of Liberty in New York City.
This poem explores the growth of a baby bird and its discovery of the world it lives in.
"O! Nothing earthly save the ray"
"From childhood's hour I have not been"
"It was many and many a year ago,"
"Hear the sledges with the bells—"
"The ring is on my hand"
In these rapid, restless shadows, Once I walked at eventide,
"Lo! Death has reared himself a throne"
"Once it smiled a silent dell"
"Type of the antique Rome! Rich reliquary"
"For her this rhyme is penned, whose luminous eyes,"
"Lo! 'tis a gala night"
"The skies they were ashen and sober;"
"The bowers whereat, in dreams, I see"
"Fair isle, that from the fairest of all flowers,"
"Fair river! in thy bright, clear flow"
"Take this kiss upon the brow!"
"BY a route obscure and lonely,"
The speaker questions science and what she takes away from others by her “dull realities.”
"Thou wast all that to me, love,"
The author laments the loss of his mother.
"In visions of the dark night"
"Oh! that my young life were a lasting dream!"
"Gaily bedight,"
"Not long ago, the writer of these lines,"
"Elizabeth, it surely is most fit"
"Of all who hail thy presence as the morning—"
"Seldom we find," says Solomon Don Dunce,"
"Beneath the vine-clad eaves, Whose shadows fall before"
"I dwelt alone"
"I saw thee once—once only—years ago:"
"'Twas noontide of summer,"
"Helen, thy beauty is to me"
"Thou wouldst be loved?—then let thy heart"
"Beloved! amid the earnest woes"
"Dim vales–and shadowy floods–"
"Thank Heaven! the crisis—"
"How often we forget all time, when lone"
'Tis said that when, The hands of men, Tamed this primeval wood,
"Thy soul shall find itself alone"
"The happiest day–the happiest hour"
"IN the greenest of our valleys"
There are some qualities–some incorporate things,
"I saw thee on thy bridal day–"
"At midnight in the month of June,"
"At morn—at noon—at twilight dim—"
"Wreathed in myrtle, my sword I'll conceal"
"So sweet the hour, so calm the time,"
"A dark unfathom'd tide, Of interminable pride—"
"Romance, who loves to nod and sing,"
Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary,
"In youth I have known one with whom the Earth"
In Heaven a spirit doth dwell, "Whose heart-strings are a lute;"
"In spring of youth it was my lot"
"Ah broken is the golden bowl! the spirit flown forever!"
Lamentation for the loss of a loved one.