A verse translation of Homer's epic poem "The Odyssey," in which Odysseus struggles to make his way home to Ithaca after the Trojan War; includes an extensive introduction, three maps, a selected bibliography, and a pronouncing glossary.

How these letters came to be, written is, told by their recipient in his introduction, and to this there would be nothing to add were it not for the close of the eighth letter: Do not believe that he who seeks to comfort you lives untroubled among the simple and quiet words that sometimes do you good. His life has much difficulty and sadness...Were it otherwise he would never have been able to find those words." It is evident that a great artist,...

Collects verse by some of the great poets and organizes them into an intimate telling of the milestones and experiences of a woman's life.

A collection of short poems by such authors as: Gwendolyn Brooks, Emily Dickinson, Emily George, Nikki Giovanni, Eve Merriam, and Charlotte Pomerantz.

A collection of winter poems ranging from late fall to early spring, by such authors as Shakespeare, Edgar Allan Poe, and Wallace Stevens.

Old favorites and original works by Marshall make up this collection of humorous rhymes, limericks, and poems.

More than 550 poems by American, English, and anonymous authors.

A book of twenty-six poetic essays, Kahlil Gibran's The Prophet is full of religious inspirations. With the twelve illustrations drawn by the author himself, the book took more than eleven years to be formulated and perfected and is Gibran's best-known work. It represents the height of his literary career as he came to be noted as 'the Bard of Washington Street.' Captivating and vivified with feeling, 'The Prophet' has been translated into forty languages...

An anthology of American poems, arranged chronologically, from colonial alphabet rhymes to Native American cradle songs to contemporary poems.