One Hundred and One Famous Poems (Barnes & Noble Digital Library) (Electronic book text)

This treasury of beloved poems collects all your favorite poets in one book. Whether you're looking for a love poem or something to mend a broken heart, perhaps you're feeling patriotic or struggling to understand the nature of man, the timeless words of Shakespeare, Emily Dickinson, John Milton, and Dante Gabriel Rossetti are at your fingertips. From the Romantic poets like Percy Bysshe Shelley and John Keats to the Transcendentalists like Ralph Waldo Emerson, this comprehensive collection contains examples of the many periods of writing from England to Scotland and on to the United States. Included are such favorites as: Walt Whitman's "O Captain My Captain "Eugene Field's "Little Boy Blue"Percy Bysshe Shelley's "To a Skylark"Joyce Kilmer's "Trees"Robert Burns' "Letter to a Young Friend"Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's "Paul Revere's Ride"Edgar Allan Poe's "The Raven" Three indices let you find your favorite poems by title, author, and first line.