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Words can be a way to unlock our feelings. Poetry allows us to be in touch with our emotions and helps us unlock and explore our vulnerability. You'll Never Walk Alone is a collection of the kind of inspirational texts—mainly poems—that can accompany us, whatever we are feeling, from sorrow to delight. The texts are not just about words which can console us or comfort us—though they often do this too. Rather these are poems that allow us to enjoy a full range of emotions. 

In Rise Like Lions, Booker Prize winning writer Ben Okri has compiled a collection of poems that celebrate the many voices of politics, from polemics and rallying cries to lyrics and meditations. Many of these poems have resonated with readers over lifetimes and through generations, from William Blake to Marvin Gaye. In exploring the impact political poems have on ideas, vision, protest, change and truth, Okri demonstrates how the need for this strand of poetry is as great as it has ever been, and its inspiration just as powerful. 

Author of more than 30 books of poetry and prose, Donald Hall performs dozens of his best-loved poems, together with excerpts from 6 of his works of prose. Bursting with the passion of living, yet reverent of time and place, Hall's evocative style has made him one of America's foremost poets. Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Robert Frost Medal of the Poetry Society of America, and the New England Book Award for nonfiction, and former Poet Laureate of New Hampshire, he gives each listener this gift of words - words painstakingly entwined with energy and love.

Some of the greatest poets and lovers in the English language speak of their love in this seductive and romantic collection. Here are the voices of Romeo, Robert Burns, Lord Byron and many others.

101 Famous Poems, compiled by Roy J. Cook and first published in 1916, is a collection of one familiar poem each by the best-known poets in the English language, including Alfred Tennyson, William Shakespeare, Robert Frost, Percy Bysshe Shelley, John Milton, Elizabeth Barret Browning, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Robert Louis Stevenson, Walt Whitman, Lord Byron, Emily Dickinson and William Wordsworth. The anthology is indexed by title, author and first line.

Wer reitet so spät durch Nacht und Wind? Fast jeder wird diese Zeile vervollständigen können. Aber erst wenn Gert Westphal solche "Theaterstücke im Kleinen" rezitiert, entfalten Balladen ihre ganze Schönheit und Sprachkunst. Der "König der Vorleser" nutzt sein ausdrucksstarkes Stimmrepertoire für die Meisterstücke der deutschen Lyrik und bringt neben beliebten Klassikern auch unbekanntere Schätze zum Klingen.

In this treasury of passionate and humorous encounters with animals, Stephen Mitchell has collected animal poems from many ages and cultures. Included here are excerpts from ancient masterpieces like The Hymn to the Sun by Pharaoh Amenhotep IV, The Book of Job, as well as haikus by Basho and Issa.

An anthology of verse by women poets writing in Persian, most of whom have never been translated into English before, from acclaimed scholar and translator Dick Davis. The Mirror of My Heart is a unique and captivating collection of eighty-three Persian women poets, many of whom wrote...

In this volume we listen to the world through the eyes and words of the English Romantics. This very special poetical period is filled with the loving and tender verse of poets who still beguile us all with their beauty.

Read by Ellen Burstyn The legendary Academy Award–winning actress reflects on her love affair with poetry and makes us believers. In this beautiful book, Ellen Burstyn celebrates poetic magic and shares her favorite works. Now into her nineties, Ellen reveals she had an evangelical response to...

The classical poetry of Japan focuses on direct experience of fleeting moments, in total contrast with its Occidental counterpart. These seminal poems were passed down orally, before great collections assembled works of art spanning several centuries in written form as early as the 8th century, from the Kojiki to the Kokinshu.

“I am already a ghost. The girl everyone only loved when she was either high or drunk. The women made invisible by recovery” It is easy to cast judgement upon others you may say, can I do that to myself? Dearest, that is what I do best! These poems take a step back from the love obsessed fool I have been. Without the focus on love, on others and their faults and actions towards me I must look at myself and who I am. Sad Faery Poems follows a heart-shattering look at self, at life and all the hardships endured. Always chasing the light at the end of the tunnel, this time finally reaching it.

寺山修司生誕９０周年記念となる、新たな詩集が誕生。この世界をどう感じ、どう愛せばいいのか。そんな問いに答える、魅惑の言葉たち。迷いの連続である人生を歩むために、詩が必要だった。

Amy writes with exquisite sensitivity to Teilhard’s mystical depth and poetic description of the human experience in the dynamic process of evolution. This is a book one can reflect on many times and never exhaust its content. ~ Ilia Delio, OSF, Villanova UniversityTeilhard de Chardin, evolutionary philosopher and devout Jesuit priest, shared his deepest thoughts through correspondence with his cousin Marguerite Teilhard-Chambon, herself a brilliant thinker, associate professor, and student of Henri Bergson.

This collection includes favorite English-language poems by 178 favorite authors, beginning with Sir Philip Sidney and the Countess of Pembroke in Elizabethan times, and ending with T. S. Eliot and Marianne Moore in the twentieth century. Cavaliers and Puritans, a famous king and a pilloried criminal, soulful lovers and sharp-witted satirists, Shakespeare and Jonson, Milton and Marvell, David Garrick and Rabindranath Tagore, Paul Laurence Dunbar and Christina Rossetti—all are here, in one constantly changing kaleidoscope of brilliant verse.

Es ist ein Gefühl, das uns alle in seinen Bann zieht - die Liebe. Sie entfaltet sich wie eine zarte Blüte, lässt unsere Herzen höher schlagen und verwandelt graue Tage in leuchtende Momente. In diesem Buch sind die schönsten Liebesgedichte vereint, die das ewige Mysterium der Liebe in all ihrer Pracht und Zartheit feiern. Jedes Wort ist ein Liebesbrief an die Frau, an die Seelenverwandte, an die Gefährtin des Herzens.

يعتبر الكتاب من المصادر الأدبية الهامة التي يعتمد عليها في دراسة الأدب والشعر العربي، حيث يتناول تراجم الشعراء المشهورين في الأدب العربي من خلال إبداعاتهم الشعرية، مع التركيز على جانب الإنشاد وأساليب التعبير الشعري.

في هذا الكتاب يُقدِّم «زكي مبارك» دراسةً مُتميِّزة لأدب المديح النبوي، مُعرِّفًا بنشأته، ومُؤرِّخًا لمراحل تطوُّره وأعلام الشعراء في كلِّ مرحلةٍ منها؛ فنجد في البواكير قصائدَ «حسان» وداليَّة «الأعشى» ولاميَّة «كعب»، يَلِيها ظهورُ مدحِ آل بيت النبي، ثم نقف على ما استوقف المؤلِّفَ من أشعار «الكُميت» و«دعبل» و«الشريف الرضي» و«مهيار»، التي أحدَث كلٌّ منها نقلةً نوعيةً في فنِّ المدائح، وأفاض على الأدب العربي طوائفَ من النوازع الروحية الراقية، كَلَّلها «البوصيري» بالبُردة و«الحموي» بالبديعيات. ويختم المؤلِّف كتابَه بالحديث عن المولد النبوي، وما يزدهر فيه من القَصِّ النثري والشعري.

USA TODAY BESTSELLER A liberatory anthology of twenty-seven writers—a community in book form—charting paths ahead for action and care in the face of political uncertainty, curated by Maggie Smith and Saeed Jones. Inspired by Saeed Jones and Maggie Smith’s conversations in the wake of the...

Edited by the magazine’s poetry editor, Kevin Young, a celebratory selection from one hundred years of influential, entertaining, and taste-making verse in The New Yorker Seamus Heaney, Dorothy Parker, Louise Bogan, Louise Glück, Randall Jarrell, Langston Hughes, Derek Walcott, Sylvia Plath...