John Boyes

Best-Loved Poems

Gilded Pocket Edition

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Produktbeschreibung

'Poetry is the blossom and the fragrancy of all human knowledge, human thoughts, human passions, emotions, language.' -Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This elegant pocket edition brings together 260 best-loved, time-honored poems in one hardback collection, beautifully presented with gold cover embossing and gilded page-edges. This glorious celebration of classic poetry features verse from around the English-speaking world, penned by such names as William Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, Oscar Wilde, L. M. Montgomery and Walt Whitman. Carefully selected and divided into themed sections, the poems encompass the wealth of human experience - love, death, youth, old age, nature, travel and humour are all included in works that range from the 1500s onwards. From Coleridge's fantastical Xanadu or the battlefields of John McCrae, to the ominous croaking of Poe's raven, this is a wonderful collection of poems containing the great and the good, the funny and the tragic, and everything in between. This beautiful pocket-sized gift edition is presented with a gold embossed cover design, ivory pages, beautifully designed endpapers and gold gilded page edges. Part of the Arcturus Ornate Classics series, this book makes wonderful gift for any lover of classic poetry. ABOUT THE SERIES: Arcturus Ornate Classics are beautifully bound editions of iconic literary works across history. These compact, foil-embossed hardbacks are printed using deluxe ivory paper and make the perfect gift.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Arcturus Publishing
• Seitenzahl: 256
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• Gewicht: 221g
• ISBN-13: 9781398851375
• ISBN-10: 139885137X
• Artikelnr.: 72121893

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John Boyes

Inhaltsangabe

A Cradle Song
William Blake Cradle Song
Thomas Dekker Mother And Babe
Walt Whitman A Child's Laughter
Algernon Charles Swinburne A Question
Charlotte Perkins Gilman Sweet And Low
Alfred, Lord Tennyson The Children's Hour
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow My Early Home
John Clare To Flush, My Dog
Elizabeth Barrett Browning Milk For The Cat
Harold Monro Mother To Child
Charlotte Perkins Gilman A Visit From St. Nicholas
Clement C. Moore It Is A Beauteous Evening
William Wordsworth Mother o' Mine
Rudyard Kipling My Grandmother's Love Letters
Hart Crane The First Snow
Fall
James Russell Lowell To My Mother
Edgar Allan Poe Marriage
Mary Weston Fordham On His Deceased Wife
John Milton The Voice
Thomas Hardy A Tragedy
Edith Nesbit She Was A Phantom Of Delight
William Wordsworth To My Dear and Loving Husband
Anne Bradstreet The Widower
Rudyard Kipling An Epitaph Upon Husband and Wife
Richard Crashaw Winter Evening
William Cowper Loving In Truth, And Fain In Verse My Love To Show
Sir Philip Sidney How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count The Ways
Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Garden Of Love
William Blake My Luve's Like A Red, Red Rose
Robert Burns Go, Lovely Rose
Edmund Waller Cherry
Ripe
Thomas Campion Love's Philosophy
Percy Bysshe Shelley She Walks In Beauty
George Gordon, Lord Byron One Day I Wrote Her Name Upon The Strand
Edmund Spenser The Good
Morrow
John Donne The Clod And The Pebble
William Blake The Sun Rising
John Donne The Definition Of Love
Andrew Marvell **You Smiled, You Spoke And I Believed'
Walter Savage Landor To Celia
Ben Jonson Severed Selves
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Love's Secret
William Blake To My Inconstant Mistress
Thomas Carew The Appeal
Sir Thomas Wyatt His Lady's Cruelty
Sir Philip Sidney Carrier Letter
Hart Crane Let Me Not To The Marriage Of True Minds
William Shakespeare To His Coy Mistress
Andrew Marvell Silent Noon
Dante Gabriel Rossetti At The Mid Hour Of Night
Thomas Moore False Though She Be
William Congreve The First Day
Christina Georgina Rossetti Bright Star, Would I Were Steadfast As Thou Art
John Keats Shall I Compare Thee To A Summer's Day?
William Shakespeare My Mistress' Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun
William Shakespeare Without Her
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Song
John Donne Ruth
Thomas Hood Now Sleeps The Crimson Petal
Alfred, Lord Tennyson Farewell, Ungrateful Traitor!
John Dryden A Broken Appointment
Thomas Hardy Elizabeth Of Bohemia
Sir Henry Wotton To Mary
William Cowper Renouncement
Alice Meynell Meeting At Night
Robert Browning When We Two Parted
George Gordon, Lord Byron Echo
Christina Georgina Rossetti The Ecstasy
John Donne To His Mistress Going To Bed
John Donne To Mary
John Clare The Apparition
John Donne Strange Fits Of Passion Have I Known
William Wordsworth Longing
Matthew Arnold Love Is Enough
William Morris Sudden Light
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Answer To A Child's Question
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Old Man's Comforts
Robert Southey Looking Forward
Robert Louis Stevenson The Child Is Father To The Man
Gerard Manley Hopkins Infant Sorrow
William Blake You Are Old, Father William
Lewis Carroll The Barefoot Boy
John Greenleaf Whittier Boy Remembers The Field
Raymond Knister Nurse's Song
William Blake Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe First Love
John Clare Spring Night
Sara Teasdale A Little Girl Lost
William Blake Youth And June
Jean Blewett When I Was One
And
Twenty
A. E. Housman Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
Thomas Moore My Lost Youth
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Youth And Age
Samuel Taylor Coleridge The Old Familiar Faces
Charles Lamb A Song Of A Young Lady To Her Ancient Lover
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester I Remember, I Remember
Thomas Hood The Old Man Dreams
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Oft In The Stilly Night
Thomas Moore The Last Leaf
Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. Young And Old
Charles Kingsley Nature
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow A Superscription
Dante Gabriel Rossetti Lux Est Umbra Dei
John Addington Symonds To One In Paradise
Edgar Allan Poe In Beechwood Cemetery
Archibald Lampman On My First Son
Ben Jonson To L. H. B.
Katherine Mansfield She Dwelt Among The Untrodden Ways
William Wordsworth Remembrance
Emily Brontë Surprised By Joy
William Wordsworth O Captain! My Captain!
Walt Whitman Prospice
Robert Browning The Chariot
Emily Dickinson The Dead
Charles Heavysege We Too Shall Sleep
Archibald Lampman Requiescat
Oscar Wilde Bredon Hill
A. E. Housman When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be
John Keats The Grave Of Keats
Oscar Wilde The Death Of The Flowers
William Cullen Bryant To Mary: It Is The Evening Hour
John Clare Grief
Elizabeth Barrett Browning The Funeral
John Donne Requiescat
Matthew Arnold When All Is Done
Paul Laurence Dunbar Like As The Waves Make Towards The Pebbl'd Shore
William Shakespeare They Are All Gone Into The World Of Light
Henry Vaughan On The Companionship With Nature
Archibald Lampman Ode To A Nightingale
John Keats On The Grasshopper And Cricket
John Keats Trees
Joyce Kilmer Ode To The West Wind
Percy Bysshe Shelley Quiet Work
Matthew Arnold Nature
Henry David Thoreau The Mower To The Glowworms
Andrew Marvell Reverie: The Orchard On The Slope
Raymond Knister To Daffodils
Robert Herrick The Lily
Isabella Valancy Crawford The Passionate Shepherd To His Love
Christopher Marlowe To A Skylark
Percy Bysshe Shelley The Fall Of The Leaf
Rosanna Leprohon Indian Summer
Susanna Moodie Loveliest Of Trees
A. E. Housman October's Bright Blue Weather
Helen Hunt Jackson Indian Summer
Wilfred Campbell A Song Of Autumn
Adam Lindsay Gordon October
Francis Sherman To Autumn
John Keats The Fall Of The Leaf
Rosanna Leprohon In Memorabilia Mortis
Francis Sherman The Winter Galaxy
Charles Heavysege Winter Evening
Archibald Lampman The Snow Storm
Ralph Waldo Emerson The Quiet Snow
Raymond Knister December
Stuart Livingstone A January Morning
Archibald Lampman January
Agnes Maule Machar The Winter Lakes
Wilfred Campbell The Heart Of Night
Bliss Carman A Canadian Summer Evening
Rosanna Leprohon A Thunderstorm
Archibald Lampman Fire
Flowers
E. Pauline Johnson Beyond The Sunset
Charles Heavysege The Vesper Star
Isabella Valancy Crawford The Tiger
William Blake To A Mouse, On Turning Up Her Nest With The Plough
Robert Burns The Darkling Thrush
Thomas Hardy A Noiseless Patient Spider
Walt Whitman Moonset
E. Pauline Johnson The Last Rose Of Summer
Thomas Moore Sunrise Along The Shore
L. M. Montgomery The Coming Of Morn
Charles Heavysege The Morning Land
Charles Mair To The Man
of
War Bird
Walt Whitman Robin Redbreast
William Allingham And Did Those Feet In Ancient Time
William Blake No Coward Soul Is Mine
Emily Brontë None Other Lamb
Christina Georgina Rossetti Chartless
Emily Dickinson The Lamb
William Blake Death
Leigh Hunt Lucifer In Starlight
George Meredith A Hymn To God The Father
John Donne Invictus
William Ernest Henley Flower In The Crannied Wall
Alfred, Lord Tennyson On His Blindness
John Milton The Oxen
Thomas Hardy Death Be Not Proud, Though Some Have Called Thee
John Donne The Donkey
G. K. Chesterton The Village Blacksmith
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Lord Of My Heart's Elation
Bliss Carman A Prayer In Darkness
G. K. Chesterton Destiny
Sir Edwin Arnold The Shepherd Boy Sings In The Valley Of Humiliation
John Bunyan The Dying Christian To His Soul
Alexander Pope Hurrahing In Harvest
Gerard Manley Hopkins The Whispers Of Time
Rosanna Leprohon The Resignation
Thomas Chatterton Love Bade Me Welcome
George Herbert A Psalm Of Life
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow The Camper
E. Pauline Johnson Evolution
John Banister Tabb To The Fringed Gentian
William Cullen Bryant The Lie
Sir Walter Raleigh Death Stands Above Me
Walter Savage Landor Love Came Down At Christmas
Christina Georgina Rossetti The Retreat
Henry Vaughan Even Such Is Time
Sir Walter Raleigh I Am
John Clare Eternity
Robert Herrick A Good
Night
Francis Quarles Virtue
George Herbert On Time
John Milton God's Grandeur
Gerard Manley Hopkins Peace
Henry Vaughan Light Shining Out Of Darkness
William Cowper A Slumber Did My Spirit Seal
William Wordsworth Pied Beauty
Gerard Manley Hopkins Blessed Are They That Mourn
William Cullen Bryant Ye Mariners Of England
Thomas Campbell Ode
Arthur O'Shaughnessy If
Rudyard Kipling Solitude
Ella Wheeler Wilcox My Heart Leaps Up
William Wordsworth A Birthday
Christina Georgina Rossetti Up
Hill
Christina Georgina Rossetti I Hear America Singing
Walt Whitman Love's Land
Isabella Valancy Crawford The Song My Paddle Sings
E. Pauline Johnson Over The Wintry Threshold
Bliss Carman Dreams
Paul Laurence Dunbar Change
Raymond Knister Frowns And Smiles
Charles Mair Return
Thomas D'Arcy McGee Song Of The Axe
Isabella Valancy Crawford Laus Deo
John Greenleaf Whittier Forbearance
Ralph Waldo Emerson Persistence
Walter Savage Landor A Song For A Sleigh Drive
Catharine Parr Traill A Song
James Whitcomb Riley Tears, Idle Tears
Alfred, Lord Tennyson I Can Stop One Heart From Breaking
Emily Dickinson A Song Of A Young Lady To Her Ancient Lover
John Wilmot, Earl of Rochester The Old Familiar Faces
Charles Lamb Youth And Age
Samuel Taylor Coleridge My Lost Youth
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Believe Me, If All Those Endearing Young Charms
Thomas Moore When I Was One
And
Twenty
A. E. Housman Youth And June
Jean Blewett A Little Girl Lost
William Blake Spring Night
Sara Teasdale First Love
John Clare Annabel Lee
Edgar Allan Poe Nurse's Song
William Blake The Barefoot Boy
John Greenleaf Whittier Boy Remembers The Field
Raymond Knister You Are Old, Father William
Lewis Carroll Infant Sorrow
William Blake The Child Is Father To The Man
Gerard Manley Hopkins