Books on Topic: 'Fortnightly '

Thomas Moore was an Irish writer, poet and lyricist celebrated for his Irish Melodies. Their setting of English-language verse to old Irish tunes mark...

John Frederick Freeman was an English poet and essayist, who gave up a successful career in insurance to write full-time. He was born in London and st...

This poem is taken from the Chambers’s Edinburgh Journal, March 15, 1879. This Fortnightly Poem is dedicated to the long-awaited coming of Spring.

Our maiden reflects on growing old.

This poem is taken from The Poetical and Dramatic Works of Gerald Griffin (1895).

Sarojini Naidu, was the female activist who worked with Gandhi during India's struggle for independence from Britain. This piece is about soldiers fro...

Mrs. Jesse Howden was a Scottish Poet. Some of her work was featured in the Chambers's Journal of Popular Literature, Science and Art. This poem is ta...

Theodosia Garrison was a New Jersey poet and a friend of Ella Wheeler Wilcox, she attained a high level of popularity during her lifetime.

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an abolitionist, suffragist, poet, teacher, public speaker, and writer. She was one of the first African American wom...

Joseph Blanco White was a Spanish poet, theologian and political writer and editor of Irish descent.

John Drinkwater was an English poet and dramatist.

Emma Lazarus was an American author of poetry, prose, and translations, as well as an activist for Jewish causes. She wrote the sonnet "The New Coloss...

One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th-century nature poetry by writing of everyday life and scenes of the En...

Richard Brinsley Butler Sheridan was an Irish playwright and poet. In this little gem, he turns an intended insult on its head.

Whether you interpret this as sincere, overly simplistic, or cynical is up to you!

This Irish author, narrative poet and translator is new to our catalog. In this poem, she tells a sad tale of a shipwreck and the agonizing choice of...

George Meredith OM was an English novelist and poet of the Victorian era. At first, his focus was poetry, influenced by John Keats among others, but h...

Edward Powys Mathers was an English translator and poet, and also a pioneer of compiling advanced cryptic crosswords. Some of his translations were se...

This fortnightly prose poem is guaranteed to locate the aboriginal poet in you! Come one come all.

This Weekly Poem features some of the Poet's thoughts on imported flowers.

Rossetti began writing down and dating her poems from 1842, most of which imitated her favored poets. In 1847 she began experimenting with verse forms...

Sarah Chauncey Woolsey (January 29, 1835 – April 9, 1905) was an American children's author who wrote under the pen name Susan Coolidge. Woolsey worke...

Lady Jane Grey, later known as Lady Jane Dudley (after her marriage) and as the "Nine Days' Queen", was an English noblewoman who claimed the throne o...

This Weekly poem is taken from Love Poems and Others by D. H. Lawrence.