A Treasury of Poems: A Collection of the World's Most Famous and Familiar Verse

More than 400 great poets in one value-priced volume.With nearly 440 poems by such greats as Plato, Shakespeare, Bryon, Keats, Christina Rossetti, Wilde, Dickinson, Emily Bronte, Sandburg, and more, this invaluable compendium captures the full breadth of human experience and emotions. The well-loved verses that fill these pages cover such universal topics as Aging, Beauty, Bereavement, Brotherhood, Celebration, Courage, Greed, Faith, Farewells, Friendship, Fun, and of course, Love. Here are such favorites as Robert Frostâ s â The Road Not Takenâ and Samuel Taylor Coleridgeâ s â The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.â T.S. Eliotâ s â The Hollow Men,â with its haunting verbal images, captures the emptiness of disillusionment, while Alexander Popeâ s â Epigramâ (â You beat your pate, and fancy wit will come: / Knock as you please, thereâ s nobody at homeâ ) offers pure, wry amusement. Everyone who appreciates the power of words to reaffirm the soul and express the deepest and most intimate of feelings will treasure these masterpieces.