More human, more divine than we—
In truth, half human, half divine—
Is woman, when good stars agree
 To temper with their beams benign
 The hour of her nativity.
 The fairest flower the green earth bears,
 Bright with the dew and light of heaven,
 Is, of the double life she wears,
 The type, in grace and glory given
 By soil and sun in equal shares.
 True sister of the Son of Man:
 True sister of the Son of God:
 What marvel that she leads the van
 Of those who in the path he trod,
 Still ...

This story is a metaphor of the Christian Life. The acorn stands for when the person is a baby. The sapling stands for when the person has grown into childhood. The full grown tree stands for when the person is an adult. The fallen branch and birds nest shows that God still cares for the person even though they have not yet trusted in Jesus as their Savior. The fallen tree being made into a table stands for when the person has trusted in Jesus as their Savior. The old man (tree) has passed...

Resonant with themes of love, loneliness, and death, the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe continues to appeal to modern readers more than 150 years later. Spanning the breadth of Poe’s career, this collection of poetry follows the master from his early works through to poetical achievements such as “The Raven” and “Annabel Lee.” One of the best-known American writers, Edgar Allan Poe’s poetry influenced the American Romantic and French Symbolist movements in the 19th century.HarperPerenni...

Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at poets who at first thought summon other crafts to mind. Many giants of Literature originate from the shores of these emerald isles; Shakespeare, Dickens, Chaucer, The Brontes and Austen to which most people would willingly add the name Thomas Hardy. Fa...

Although Dickinson was a prolific private poet, fewer than a dozen of her nearly eighteen hundred poems were published during her lifetime. The work that was published during her lifetime was usually altered significantly by the publishers to fit the conventional poetic rules of the time. Although most of her acquaintances were probably aware of Dickinson's writing, it was not until after her death in 1886-when Lavinia, Emily's younger sister, discovered her cache of poems-that the breadth...

The Poetry Of Edgar Allan Poe. Poetry is a fascinating use of language. With almost a million words at its command it is not surprising that these Isles have produced some of the most beautiful, moving and descriptive verse through the centuries. In this series we look at the American writer Edgar Allan Poe who in the following poems is seen to be a gifted and accomplished poet. Edgar Allan Poe (born Edgar Poe) was born in Boston Massachusetts on January 19th 1809 and was orphaned at an ear...

The words of William Wordsworth are part of the fabric of the English language. His poem 'The Daffodils' was voted the second most popular poem in England (after Kipling's 'If') and phrases jump off the page like old friends when seen in their original setting:'The world is too much with us; late and soon,Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers:Wordsworth and the other 'Romantic' poets taught the public to appreciate the rural life and the lessons nature could te...

The eagerness with which the first volume of Emily Dickinson's poems has been read shows very clearly that all our alleged modern artificiality does not prevent a prompt appreciation of the qualities of directness and simplicity in approaching the greatest themes, — life and love and death. That “irresistible needle-touch, ” as one of her best critics has called it, piercing at once the very core of a thought, has found a response as wide and sympathetic as it has been unexpected even to thos...

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In the sphere of poets like Swift, Meredith and Kipling, Thomas Hardy is today becoming recognized as one of the greatest English poets of this century. As a young man with interests in journalism, art, and architecture, Hardy achieved greatness in the fiction genre early on, writing novels for a living until his mid-fifties. He then abandoned fiction entirely in order to devote himself to his true passion—poetry. This ample selection of poems demonstrates Hardy's experimentation with intr...

The Everyman's Library Pocket Poets hardcover series is popular for its compact size and reasonable price which does not compromise content. Poems: Hardy contains poems from Moments of Vision, Satires of Circumstance, Veteris Vestigia Flammae, Heredity, Short Stories, Afterwards, and an index of first lines.

The Brownings’ astonishing romantic and poetic relationship is here preserved in a representative single volume. AN EVERYMAN'S LIBRARY POCKET POET.Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Browning are without parallel in the nineteenth century: celebrated poets, they became equally famous for their marriage. Still popular more than a century after their deaths, their poetry vividly reflects the unique nature of their relationship.This collection presents the B...