Akron Public Library

The complete works; the comedies, histories, tragedies, and poetry, including the sonnets.

"This edition presents the texts of the 150 'poetical works' -- 148 poems of various degrees of seriousness and in various states of completion plus the collaborative play Otho the Great and the dramatic fragment King Stephen -- that can reasonably be assigned to Keats at the present time, with an apparatus recording all known substantive variants that have any claim to be considered authoritative and full textual notes that give dates of composition,...

These playful verses by a celebrated poet have delighted readers and cat lovers around the world ever since they were gathered for publication in 1939. As Valerie Eliot has pointed out, there are a number of references to cats in T. S. Eliot's work, but it was to his godchildren, particularly Tom Faber and Alison Tandy, in the 1930s, that he first revealed himself as "Old Possum" and for whom he composed his poems.

Prose Supplement. Includes index of poems and authors.

A kindly fairy uses her purchases only for a short time, then releases them for their own good or the good of others.

Nineteen poems by Robert Browning include "My Last Duchess," "Porphyria's Lover," "Fra Lippo Lippi," and "Love among the Ruins."

First published in 1850 and considered some of the finest love lyrics in the English language, Sonnets from the Portuguese comprise 44 interlocking poems that Elizabeth Barrett Browning composed for her husband, Robert Browning. This wonderful illustrated edition includes 22 additional works as well. Annotation. First published in 1850 and considered some of the finest love lyrics in the English language, Sonnets from the Portuguese comprise 44 interlocking...

The Pied Piper piped the village free of rats and when the villagers refused to pay him for the service he piped away their children, too.

An illustrated version of the well-known poem about a wily spider who preys on the vanity and innocence of a little fly.