English Poetry Anthology

Tales of Gratitude is a collection of positive short stories with happy endings that will inspire thankfulness in the young and the young at heart. Tom Klobucher's stories are a touching and optimistic take on the American Dream. Each of his heroes confronts towering obstacles and overwhelming odds with little more than the support of their families, their sheer determination, and their ever-grateful spirits.

The greatest poems from the greatest masters of French literature have been put together in a brilliant English adaptation in the form of an audiobook. Dive deep into Victor Hugo's superb style, with excerpts from his "Contemplations" or "Autumn Leaves"; enjoy the ephemeral poetry of Verlaine and the darkness of Charles Baudelaire's "Flowers of Evil", narrated with precision and subtlety by Katie Haigh and Paul Edwards.

Although most famous for her bestselling fiction, including Fear of Flying and Any Woman's Blues, Erica Jong started her publishing career as a poet. The celebrated author enjoys an international reputation for her verse. An essential collection of poetry, Becoming Light includes early poems previously uncollected in book form, selections from her previous books, and many new poems. Erica Jong's poetry exhibits her rare gifts for inventiveness, wit, vigor, honesty, and accessibility. Critics have generously praised Jong's unique poetic voice.

Soul Cleanse is an anthology of poems that is sure to pull on the heart strings of the readers both young and old. It's also the debut anthology of poetry by Michael McCain, noted as the "Langston Hughes of his generation". Soul Cleanse is a candid expression on life's experiences about love, dating, break up, domestic violence, foster care, and a splash of inspirational/motivational poetry. Soul Cleanse is sure to become a favorite edition to any library or readers collection.

American author and poet Aaron Ozee has brought you multiple works of poetic beauty, but never until now has each one of his published titles been combined together into a single collection. The world will at last know poetry at its finest.

This audiobook includes 30 classic and contemporary poems dealing with haunting, ghosts, superstition, murder, and death.

Soul Cleanse is an anthology of poems that is sure to pull on the heart strings of the listeners both young and old. It's also the debut anthology of poetry by Michael McCain, noted as the "Langston Hughes of his generation". Soul Cleanse is a candid expression on life's experiences about love, dating, break up, domestic violence, foster care, and a splash of inspirational/motivational poetry.

In this urgent outpouring of American voices, our poets speak to us as they shelter in place, addressing our collective fear, grief, and hope from eloquent and diverse individual perspectives.

Poet Bonnie Weiss presents a collection of stories and poems filled with vivid memories, halfway between verse and prose. Her words are honest, sensitive, and profound but also sometimes humorous, sometimes deep. The style is lyrical and deceptively simple as she presents the incredible power of love and the pain of loss. Empathize with the pain but find beauty and joy, too, as you walk the poet’s path to truth and enlightenment.

Since 2009, J. Michael Spaur has been writing adult fiction, fantasy, and adult romance, along with poetry and assorted ponderings, which reflect upon the issues and behaviors he has noticed not only within his own life, but socially in general. In The Shadows Danced, he offers us a brief glimpse into a slightly darker and far more personal side of himself.

Is it poetry or philosophy or both? Who knows, but it goes through your veins like a saccharine wave. Iteration 39 is subliminal rhymes or mnemonic art that becomes a part of the listeners' heart. Beating as they're hearing each line. It's difficult to define, so why even try? Unlike anything in your library nor near your shelf. It's selfish healthiness for the soul; young and old.

The Poetic Vibrations of a Matured Butterfly is a poetic journey of prose poetry, thoughts, and parables about the quiddity of humankind. The cyclonic interactions and divisions that cause movement, and sometimes turbulent development on the road called life. It has been divided into three sections of transition: Rites of Passage, Valley of Passions, and Philosophical Roads.

The Don't Touch Garden explores what it is to be adopted, both for the child and the adoptive parents, through a wide range of poetic styles and complex emotions. An absorbing account of the legacy of being an adopted child. Forthright and tender, this moving sequence reflects Foley's unflinching gaze into the mirror in a sometimes excoriating attempt to discern traces of her belonging, and to make peace with the past. Joy Howard, Poet, publisher and former Fostering Services Manager.

The Shield of Heracles is an archaic Greek epic poem that was attributed to Hesiod during antiquity. The subject of the poem is the expedition of Heracles and Iolaus against Cycnus, the son of Ares, who challenged Heracles to combat as Heracles was passing through Thessaly. It has been suggested that this epic may reflect anti-Thessalian feeling after the First Sacred War (595–585 BCE): in the epic, a Thessalian hero interfering with the Phocian sanctuary is killed by a Boeotian hero (Heracles), whose mortal father Amphitryon had for allies Locrians and Phocians.

When We Were Everything traces the delicate, tangled threads of relationships that define us. Through a series of deeply personal poems and stories, these pieces capture the bittersweet essence of youth, the complexities of love, and the unvarnished reality of growing up. This collection is a journey through the heart—reflecting on past loves, missed connections, and the enduring search for meaning in a world that never stops moving. Perfect for listeners who appreciate introspective, character-driven writing that speaks to the soul.

Marie Corelli is best known as a novelist, but was always a poet at heart, composing on her strongest passions, whether for love, nature, God, or country. This volume collects poems from across her bestselling books and across her career, curated by Brenda Vyver, her her 'companion' of 40 years, who she left everything to when she died, and who is buried alongside her in a twin grave. It is perhaps worth noting that Brenda drove much of Corelli's work, which ran heavy to erotic descriptions of women.

In this volume of fifty poems our classic poets delve with storied verse into every facet of this institution. From the good, the bad and even the ugly, from the Wedding day to the realisation that divorce and separation maybe the better path. Between these two frontiers other avenues and facets are explored by the pens of many including Shakespeare, Khalil Gibran, Emily Dickinson and the Rossetti’s.

While the issues of the day that consumed the attention of scholar, accomplished linguist, politician and severe Puritan, John Milton (1608-1674) are now largely of historical interest, the verse which they inspired remains a staple of English literature.

Stolen Thoughts is a captivating collection of poetry that delves deep into the depths of the human experience. With a mesmerizing blend of introspection, motivation, commentary, and gratitude, Dr. Anish Kaushal invites listeners on an emotional journey through the inner workings of his mind.

Oscar Wilde (October 16, 1854-November 30, 1900) was an Irish poet and playwright. After writing in different forms throughout the 1880s, he became one of the most popular playwrights in London in the early 1890s. He is best remembered for his epigrams, plays, short stories, and his novel The Picture of Dorian Gray. The following includes the pieces "Poems In Prose" and "The Star Child."