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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner by Samuel Taylor Coleridge libreka classics – These are classics of literary history, reissued and made available to a wide audience. Immerse yourself in well-known and popular titles!

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner and Other Poems (with an Introduction by Julian B. Abernethy)

Born on October 21, 1772 in Devonshire, England, Coleridge was a dreamy and thoughtful boy and not one for sports or rough play. When he was eight his father died and Coleridge was sent away to Christ’s Hospital, a charity school in London where stayed for the remainder of his childhood. In 1795, Coleridge met William Wordsworth and the two poets worked closely together to found the Romantic Movement in English literature. Collected together here in this representative volume are Samuel Taylor...

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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Ku...

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, and the Conversation Poems

Collected together in this collection are the most famous of all the poems written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge. This includes the following: The Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Kubla Khan, Christabel, The Eolian Harp, Reflections on having left a Place of Retirement, This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison, Frost at Midnight, Fears in Solitude, The Nightingale, Dejection: An Ode, The Pains of Sleep, and To William Wordsworth. Written between 1795 and 1807 these poems represent the best of Samuel Taylor...

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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

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Omar Khayyam

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

First published in English by Edward Fitzgerald in 1859 from its original Farsi, “The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam” is a collection of quatrains attributed to Omar Khayyam, a Persian astronomer and mathematician born in the later part of the 11th century. Omar Khayyam’s poetry, which received very little international notoriety in its own day, achieved classic status when it was discovered and rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald over seven hundred years later. Omar Khayyam was famous in...

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Omar Khayyam

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam

The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam

Omar Khayyam was a Persian astronomer and mathematician born in the later part of the 11th century. His poetry, which received very little notoriety in its day, achieved classic status when it was discovered and rendered into English verse by Edward Fitzgerald over seven hundred years later. Presented here are the traditionally collected first and fifth editions with the original notes and introduction by Edward Fitzgerald.

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Omar Khayyam

The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vin...

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Renascence and Other Poems, A Few Figs from Thistles, Second April, and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver)

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s childhood was a life of transient poverty. Her mother Cora, who was separated for many years from, and finally divorced in 1904, her father Henry Tolman Millay, moved Edna and her two sisters constantly from town to town during their upbringing. The family would finally settle in a small house on the property of Cora’s aunt in Camden, Maine. It was here that Edna would write some of her first lines of poetry. Edna would first gain recognition when her 1912 poem...

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vin...

Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay (Renascence and Other Poems, A Few Figs From Thistles, Second April, and The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver)

"The Selected Poetry of Edna St. Vincent Millay" is a collection of some of her most loved poems. Brought together in this volume are the individual works of «Renascence and Other Poems,» «A Few Figs From Thistles,» «Second April,» and «The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver.»

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

The Song of Hiawatha

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The Song of Hiawatha

Initially conceived after reading the works of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, who was known for his early studies of Native American culture, “The Song of Hiawatha” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow is an epic poem based on the legends of the Ojibwa Indians of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. Written in 1855 in trochaic tetrameter, the tale is set in the picturesque Pictured Rocks area along the south shore of Lake Superior. The lyrical descriptions of this beautiful and unique part of the United States...

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The Song of Hiawatha

Initially conceived by Longfellow after reading the works of Henry Rowe Schoolcraft, «The Song of Hiawatha» is an epic poem based on the legends of the Ojibway Indians of Michigan, Wisconsin, and Minnesota. The beautiful descriptions of this part of the United States are intertwined with the story of the Native American Hiawatha. From his youth to his marriage, from his daily existence of gathering food to his participation in the traditions of his people, Longfellow weaves a tale of impressive...

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The Song of Hiawatha

"At the door on summer eveningsSat the little Hiawatha;Heard the whispering of the pine-trees,Sounds of music, words of wonder . . ."The infectious rhythm of The Song of Hiawatha has captured the ears of millions. Once drawn in, they've stayed to hear about the young brave with the magic moccasins, who talks with animals and uses his supernatural gifts to bring peace and enlightenment to his people.America's most popular nineteenth-century poet, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow devoted...

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