Saturday, March 29, 2025

Poetry Recommendations

 Hello, it's been a long time since I posted, but I am trying to make a come back. My plan is that every Saturday I will post a recommendations list and 2 days a week to post book reviews. So today I am starting with my poetry recommendations. Poetry can be so beautiful, inspiring and a unique way to see through the eyes of another. While I don't read a great deal of poetry, I truly enjoy it whenever I do pick some up.


Christian poetry:

            The Hymns of Anne Steele by Anne Steele

            Olney Hymns by John Newton

            Olney Hymns by William Cowper

            He Giveth More Grace by Anne Johnson Flint

            Poems of Faith by Bob Blaisdell

            100 Hymns and Poems of Love and Devotion by Hayden Press

            To My Husband & Other Poems by Anne Bradstreet

Children & Middle grade poetry:

            Favorite Poems of Childhood by Phillip Smith

            Child's Garden of Verse by Robert Louis Stevenson

            Bilbo's Last Song by J R R Tolkien

            The Swamps of Sleethe by Jack Prelutsky

            Outside the Box by Karma Wilson

            Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein

Non-Christian poetry:

            Sir Orfeo by Unknown (translated by J R R Tolkien)

            Complete Poetry of Edgar Allen Poe

            Complete Poems of the Bronte sisters

            English Victorian Poetry by Paul Negri

            Haiku: An Anthology of Japenese Poems by Stephen Adiss

            Songs of the Romani Road by Linda Marshall

            Lend Me Your Voice by Angela Burchett




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