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Poetry
This collection includes poems, ballads, and limericks, and critical studies.
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Old English elegies: translated into alliterative verse with a critical introduction
Princeton University Press
1936
A translation of some of the finest lyrics to have survived from the Old English period.
Annus mirabilis, or, The ascension o' Jimmie Broon
Porpoise Press
1924
A satire in verse on the appointment of the Rt. Hon. James Brown as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, by the co-founder of Porpoise Press.
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Adam and Charles Black
1909
A republication of the 1859 translation of the famous series of Persian quatrains
Airdrie bards past and present
Baird & Hamilton, Ltd.
1930
A collection of work by forty-five poets linked to Airdrie, with short biographies of each contributor.
Bei den Gnomen und Elfen
Rotapel-Verlag
1929
A book of children's verse accompanied by illustrations of elves, gnomes and magicians. Konrad Kreidolf taught lithography in Konstanz the art and studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.
Writers Against Aparthied
Writers Against Aparthied
1960
Contains 'Let Africa flourish' and 'Christ's colour' by Hugh MacDiarmid.
Les sonnets amoureux
Éditions du Belier
1943
A collection of sonnets by the French Renaissance poet. Number 639 in a limited edition of 650.
Édéa, et autres poèmes
Éditions "Marsyas"
1929
A collection of poems by a French writer probably best known for his biography of Swinburne.
Poems chiefly of Jedburgh and vicinity
Rutherfurd & Craig
1900s
Includes five lectures on matters of local interest.
Beauty and the beast
Rodale Press
1955
A republication of Lamb's poem illustrated with the 1811 engravings.
Curlews
Talbot Press Limited
1946
The second book of poems by the Irish novelist. Gift inscription (to Alice V. Stuart) from author on front free endpaper.
Ballads and lyrics of old France, with other poems
Longmans, Green, and Co.
1872
Lang's first book.
Piers the plowman: a critical edition of the A-version
Johns Hopkins Press
1952
A Middle English allegorical narrative poem written in un-rhymed, alliterative verse.
The vision of Piers plowman
Sheed and Ward
1935
A Middle English allegorical narrative poem written in un-rhymed, alliterative verse.
The way of life according to Laotzu
Editions Poetry London
1946
A new translation through the perspective of an American philosopher.
Baker Street ballads
Luther Norris
1971
A collection of Sherlockian poems. Number 270 in a limited edition of 300. From the library of noted Sherlockian J. L. Weir.
Concerning Lady Nairne and some of her verses
Fingerpost Publicatiouns Ltd
9189
A poem by the Scottish writer and political activist.
Poems of this war by younger poets
University Press
1942
An anthology of poems intended to be 'the book of a generation'. Gift inscription from Irish poet Robert Greacen to Beatrice Stevens.
Under the sun: poems
Bodley Head
1948
The fourth collection of poems by the English writer.
Poems from Giacomo Leopardi
John Lehmann
1946
A selection of poems by the nineteenth century Italian philosopher, writer, and philologist.
Ha! Ha! Among the trumpets: poems in transit
George Allen & Unwin Ltd
1945
The second collection of poems by the Welsh writer who took his own life while on active service in Burma. From the library of Sydney Goodsir Smith, one of the major figures of the Scottish Renaissance. With a loosely inserted article from New Writing on Lewis.
Arthur Symons: a critical biography
Unicorn Press
1963
A biography of the Welsh poet, critic, and translator. From the library of Alan Anderson, of Tragara Press. With a loosely inserted postcard with a hand-written poem by Lhombreaud to Anderson.
Second front: poems
Andrew Dakers Limited
1944
A collection of poems on army life by the Australian writer. Loosely laid in review slip.
Clue of darkness
Andrew Dakers Limited
1949
A poem sequence, based on the legend of Theseus, by the Australian writer. Loosely laid in review slip.
