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Poetry
This collection includes poems, ballads, and limericks, and critical studies.
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Ballads of World War II
Lili Marleen Club of Glasgow
1947
A privately published collection of bawdy, unrestrained and rebellious ballads by both Allied and Axis troops purporting to come from the Lili Marlene Club.
The white horseman: prose and verse of the new apocalypse
Routledge
1941
An anthology of war-time poetry, with a small selection of prose and essays.
The little kingdom
Glyn Press
1946
A collection of poems for children by the Welsh composer. Gift inscription from the author on title page.
Blind men's flowers are green
Secker and Warburg
1940
The third collection of poems by the English novelist, poet, diarist, and radio producer.
A.T.I.: there is no need for alarm
Ornum Press Ltd.
1944
A collection of verse written between 1940 and 1944.
The gap of brightness: lyrical poems
Macmillan & Co. Ltd.
1940
The fourth collection of poems by the Irish poet and theatre director. Loosely laid in review slip.
The dance of death: les simulachres et historiees faces de la mort
Cygnet Press
1974
A new edition incorporating French, Latin and English texts.
Llaregub revisited Dylan Thomas and the state of modern poetry
Bowes and Bowes
1962
A critique of modern poetry with a focus on Dylan Thomas.
Love and Elizabeth: poems
Sylvan Press
1944
A collection of poems by the English writer, educator, editor, and publisher.
The nascent mind of Shelley
Clarendon Press
1971
Written to demonstrate the continuity in Shelley's main ideas and the relevance to his poetry.
Behold the Jew
Poetry Society (Incorporated)
1943
The first separate UK edition of the Greenwood Prize poem for 1943 which first appeared in 'The Poetry Review'.
Stammerings
Fortune Press
1944
A collection of poems, many of which first appeared in the 'Edinburgh Evening News'.
Jami: the Persian mystic
T.N. Foulis
1907
A collection of poetry by the 15th century Persian.
Poems
Collins
1945
A collection from a war poet who served with the 8th Army and then the 51st Division in Normandy, where he met his death.
Old English elegies: translated into alliterative verse with a critical introduction
Princeton University Press
1936
A translation of some of the finest lyrics to have survived from the Old English period.
Annus mirabilis, or, The ascension o' Jimmie Broon
Porpoise Press
1924
A satire in verse on the appointment of the Rt. Hon. James Brown as Lord High Commissioner to the General Assembly of the Church of Scotland, by the co-founder of Porpoise Press.
Rubáiyát of Omar Khayyám
Adam and Charles Black
1909
A republication of the 1859 translation of the famous series of Persian quatrains
Bei den Gnomen und Elfen
Rotapel-Verlag
1929
A book of children's verse accompanied by illustrations of elves, gnomes and magicians. Konrad Kreidolf taught lithography in Konstanz the art and studied at the Munich Academy of Fine Arts.
Writers Against Aparthied
Writers Against Aparthied
1960
Contains 'Let Africa flourish' and 'Christ's colour' by Hugh MacDiarmid.
Les sonnets amoureux
Éditions du Belier
1943
A collection of sonnets by the French Renaissance poet. Number 639 in a limited edition of 650.
Édéa, et autres poèmes
Éditions "Marsyas"
1929
A collection of poems by a French writer probably best known for his biography of Swinburne.
Poems chiefly of Jedburgh and vicinity
Rutherfurd & Craig
1900s
Includes five lectures on matters of local interest.
