Colorado Parks & Wildlife Research Library

In the English verse translation by Alexander Pope, illustrated with th classical designs of John Flaxman. Collector's edition bound in genuine leather.

Brings together Poe's stories and poems in one volume.

This outstanding anthology of short verse offers poetry lovers an impressive sampling of more than 150 masterpieces spanning over 400 years of English and American literary history. Although short in length (the longest are 24 lines, most 16 lines or less), these poems are long on beauty, power, imagination, and originality.
Included are such memorable compositions as John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud," Shakespeare's "When, in Disgrace with Fortune

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From the immortal word of the raven to the mournful tomb of Annabel Lee, Poe's work abounds with eerie thoughts and strange sensations Read on, and you will enter the heart of your deepest fears. . .

Meet ankylosaurus ("built like a tank"), meet brachiosaurus("who had little to do/ but stand with its head in the treetops and chew"). Meet twelve other mighty Mesozoic monsters who once filled the sea, land, and air. You won't forget a single one.

In his poetry, Robert Frost made plainspoken men and women eloquent philosophers on the human condition. Robert Frost: Selected Poems is a unique collection of more than 100 poems by this well-known twentieth-century American poet. It includes the full contents of his first three volumes of poetry-A Boys Will, North of Boston, and Mountain Interval-and such beloved poems as "Mending Wall," "The Road Not Taken," and "The Death of the Hired Man." This...

A collection of children's poems of which half are written in terms simple enough for a first-grader to read.

This uncompleted suite of poems by French poet Arthur Rimbaud was first published serially in the Paris literary review magazine "La Vogue." The magazine published part of "Illuminations" from May to June 1886. Paul Verlaine, Rimbaud's lover, suggested the publication of these poems, written between 1873 and 1875, in book form. All forty-two of the poems generally considered as part of "Illuminations" are collected together here in this edition. Of...

A collection of poems by an outstanding 19th-century American poet whose works were published posthumously.

Explores the world of jungle animals, including hippos, leopards, chimpanzees, in poetic expression. On board pages.