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Poetry - Lyric Genre

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Books in the Poetry - Lyric genre:

Salt-Water Poems and Ballads (1916)

I must go down the the sea again,
To the lonely sea and the stars.

Read online at archive.org.

A Child’s Own Book of Verse: Book One (1917)

Short poems for younger children.

Read online at archive.org. 

A Child’s Own Book of Verse: Book Three (1917)

Yet longer poems for somewhat older children.

The Mountain Mist (1917)

Illustration to a poem. Read online at Hathitrust.

Author(s): Hesper Le Gallienne
Illustrator(s): Robert Lawson

Japanese Prints (1918)

A collection of poems modelled on Japanese forms. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): John Gould Fletcher
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

The Springtide of Life: Poems of Childhood (1918)

A collection of the poet’s verse on the subject of children, and those addressed to them. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Algernon Charles Swinburne
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

My Bookhouse: From the Tower Window (1920)

A collection of stories, poems and tales. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Et al

My Bookhouse: In the Nursery (1920)

This first volume of the anthology includes nursery rhymes and poetry along with short folk and fairy tales. Read online at archive.org.

My Bookhouse: Through Fairy Halls (1920)

This volume of the anthology includes longer tales and other types of stories and poetry. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Maud Petersham
Miska Petersham
Et al

Comus (1921)

A masque based on the story of a sorcerer’s attempt to traduce a chaste and beautiful maiden. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): John Milton
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

A Dish of Apples (1921)

A collection of poems on the themes of nature and harvest. The author was a novelist best known for his fourteen novel cycle set on Dartmoor. Read for free online at Internet Archive.... View More

Author(s): Eden Phillpotts
Illustrator(s): Arthur Rackham

Down-Adown-Derry (1922)

A book of fairy poems. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): Walter de la Mare
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

Poems of American Patriotism (1922)

A selection of poems celebrating America’s martial heritage from the Boston tea party to the end of World War I. Read online at archive.org.... View More

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): N. C. Wyeth

Rainbow Gold: Poems Old and New (1922)

An anthology of poetry enhanced with Dugald Stewart Walker’s fantastic pen and ink drawings.

Author(s): Various
Illustrator(s): Dugald Stewart Walker

A Very Little Child’s Book of Stories (1923)

A collection of new and old stories and poems for very young children. Read online at Hathitrust.

Silverhorn: The Hilda Conkling Book for Other Children (1924)

A collection of poems from the author’s Poems of a Little Girl and Shoes of the Wind.All of the poems were written before her eleventh birthday.... View More

Author(s): Hilda Conkling
Illustrator(s): Dorothy P. Lathrop

When We Were Very Young (1924)

A book of poems in which we first meet Christopher Robin and Edward Bear. Read online at archive.org.

Author(s): A. A. Milne
Illustrator(s): Ernest H. Shepard

The Flying Carpet (1925)

An anthology of leading authors and illustrators of the first part of the twentieth century.

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