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Scottish Love Poems: A Personal Anthology by Antonia Fraser
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Love Letters Of Great Men Vol. 2
John KeatsRichard Lovelace - 2010
*** Volume 1 plays a key role in the plot of the US movie Sex and the City. *** This Volume 2 includes love poems written by Matthew Arnold, Alfred Austin, Samuel Alfred Beadle, William Blake, Christopher Brennan, Lord Byron, Robert Burns, John Clare, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Henry Constable, William Cowper, Michael Drayton, George Eliot, Thomas Ford, Stephen Foster, Robert Frost, Thomas Frost, Norman Rowland Gale, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Alfred P. Graves, Robert Herrick, Leigh Hunt, Benjamin Jonson, John Keats, Richard Lovelace, Pablo Neruda, Edgar Allen Poe, and William Shakespeare.
Unholy Covenant: A True Story of Murder in North Carolina
Lynn Chandler Willis - 2000
At last, she was marrying the man she loved, Ted Kimble—a fellow Christian and son of a local preacher. But little did she realize her new husband had a dark side. Shock waves rocked the small, North Carolina town of Pleasant Garden when Patricia’s charred body was discovered inside the Kimble’s burned-out home. Soon family and friends learned an even worse truth—Patricia had died from a bullet wound to the head. Now, in Unholy Covenant, North Carolina journalist Lynn Chandler-Willis uncovers the story behind the crime. Taking readers from the crime scene to the courtroom, she delivers a passionate account of a crime that forever changed the lives of many in the small North Carolina community.
The Works of Emily Dickinson
Emily Dickinson - 1994
An undiscovered genius during her lifetime, only seven out of her total of 1,775 poems were published prior to her death. She had an immense breadth of vision and a passionate intensity and awe for life, love, nature, time and eternity. Originally branded an eccentric, Emily Dickinson is now recognised as a major poet of great depth.
Poems in Two Volumes, Volume 1
William Wordsworth - 2012
You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
Women Talking Dirty
Isla Dewar - 1995
A neglected child, she's still looking for love as an adult; and so she finds herself married to Daniel. How could she know that he would misbehave?Cora O'Brien is the total opposite; outrageous and outspoken, she inspires the children she teaches with her enthusiasm. The city can't soften her Highland lilt but her lifestyle would raise a few eyebrows back home. But her vividness is a fa�ade: most of her secrets she's still keeping to herself.Fast friends from the start, Ellen and Cora may have plenty to learn about life, but they always have vodka and each other to talk to when the unexpected happens...
English Victorian Poetry: An Anthology
Paul NegriLewis Carroll - 1998
An Introduction and brief biographical notes on the poets are included.
Hinds' Feet on High Places: The Original and Complete Allegory with a Devotional for Women
Darien B. Cooper - 2013
They will help you to understand your own struggles and regain confidence in your walk with the Lord.I know that you sense Him drawing you ever nearer to Him. That's why you are considering this devotional. Some of you even feel your heart aching for more of His Presence in your life.This allegory with the devotionals will help satisfy the yearning of your heart. He is challenging you to keep saying "yes" to your Lord as He beckons you on in your own journey to the High Places.
Crown Anthology
Analog De Leon - 2018
Featuring a beautifully diverse and inspirational set of voices from around the world, that includes some of today’s most influential modern poets, with additional contest winners chosen from 4,500 submissions, Crown Anthology is curated to be a light in the wild dark, illuminating the crown that exists in everyone.
Poetry Please
Roger McGough - 2013
First aired in 1979, the programme, a request show which broadcasts to two million listeners a week, has become a unique record of the country's best-loved poems over the decades since its inception.The BBC has looked back through its rich archive of recordings to produce a poll of the most asked for and most broadcast pieces ever: it is those poems that this anthology brings together here. A showcase, in effect, for the nation's favourite verse, Poetry Please is a treasure trove for our most requested and most listened to poems of all time. It is a compelling invitation for readers of all ages and backgrounds to celebrate the verse that we care so much about: from new readers to old, from schools to reading groups, this a book for giving, a book for cherishing.
Holocaust Poetry
Hilda Schiff - 1995
Collecting 119 poems in all, Holocaust Poetry commemorates the sanctity of those who died--both Jews and non-Jews--as a result of this unimaginably horrible crime.Yet Schiff's anthology is also a solemn affirmation of humanity's survival, for it pays homage to the past while also attesting to the often brutal struggles that we as a species still face in this world, day in and day out. Also preserved here are poems written by those who themselves perished in the Shoah, the final testaments and eternal lessons of unknown soldiers, unheralded heroes, unsilenced voices.
The Epic of Gilgamish
Reginald Campbell Thompson - 1970
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Táin Bó Cúalnge. English
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You may find it for free on the web. Purchase of the Kindle edition includes wireless delivery.
Goddess of the Americas
Ana Castillo - 1996
Through a variety of forms--original essays, historical writings, fiction, drama, and poetry--the illustrious contributors to this volume examine the impact this potent deity has had on the history of Mexico, its people, politics, Christianity, art and literature--and her influence beyond that country, in Latin America, North America and Europe.
My Song for Him Who Never Sang to Me
Merrit Malloy - 1975
Her poems are intimate and real. They speak of lovers, friends, family, and self, with a powerful emotional honesty that makes you smile in self-recognition. My Song for Him Who Never Sang to Me is Merrit's first book.