Best of
Poetry

1916

The Road Not Taken and Other Poems


Robert Frost - 1916
    Drawing upon everyday incidents, common situations and rural imagery, Frost fashioned poetry of great lyrical beauty and potent symbolism. Originally published in 1916 under the title Mountain Interval.

One Hundred and One Famous Poems: With a Prose Supplement


Roy Jay CookJames Russell Lowell - 1916
    Nature, man and human history are reflected on in the verse of English and American poets and such prose works as the Gettysburg Address and the Declaration of Independence.

The Lives and Times of Archy and Mehitabel


Don Marquis - 1916
    illustrated, B&W

You Come Too


Robert Frost - 1916
    A collection of poems chosen by Frost to be read and enjoyed by children (and their elders), including "Acquainted With The Night," "A Patch Of Old Snow," "Not Of School Age, "and "Mending Wall.

A Heap O' Livin'


Edgar A. Guest - 1916
    Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Sea Garden


H.D. - 1916
    The world is yet unspoiled for you, you wait, expectant-- you are like the children who haunt your own steps for chance bits--a comb that may have slipped, a gold tassle, unravelled.

Rhymes of a Red Cross Man


Robert W. Service - 1916
    The dust was gummin' up our ears, and 'ow the sweat was pourin'; The road was long, the sun was like a brazier in the sky. We wondered where the 'Uns was -- we wasn't long a-wonderin'.

Birches


Robert Frost - 1916
    Caldecott medalist Ed Young uses his own powers of observation and imagination to create an extraordinary series of paintings that complement and extend the poem.

Land of Fire: Selected Poems


Yeghishe Charents - 1916
    Land of Fire is his second book, originally published in Moscow in 1916. English, 271 pages.

Poems Of The Irish Revolutionary Brotherhood: Thomas MacDonagh, P. H. Pearse, Joseph Mary Plunkett, Sir Roger Casement (1916)


Padraic Colum - 1916
    Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

La première aventure céléste de Mr Antipyrine


Tristan Tzara - 1916
    The first book Tristan Tzara ever published, La première aventure céléste [sic] de Mr Antipyrine is a now-famous example of the Dadaist (anti-)play.