One Hundred and One Famous Poems

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 BluePercy Bysshe Shelley's To a SkylarkJoyce Kilmer's TreesRobert Burns' Letter to a Young FriendHenry Wadsworth Longfellow's Paul Revere's RideEdgar Allan Poe's The...