These poems are set on a sheep farm in the northern mountains [of England] and tell the story -- in the form of a modern shepherd's calendar -- of her marriage to a Cumbrian sheep farmer, a nam nore than twice her age, and their life together until his death in 2004.

G. K. Chesterton's "The Ballad of the White Horse" is the last great epic poem written in the English tradition. First published in 1911, it tells the heroic tale of Saxon King Alfred the Great and his defeat of the invading Viking army at the Battle of Ethandun. While Chesterton's work was not intended to be completely historically accurate, it is a deeply evocative and detailed account of an ancient and forgotten world. King Alfred has been driven...

"The 'Acts of Oblivion' were a series of seventeenth-century laws enacted by both Parliamentarian and Royalist factions. Whatever their ends -- pardoning revolutionary deeds, or expunging revolutionary speech from the record -- they forced the people to forget. Against such injunctions, Paul Batchelor's poems rebel. This long-awaited second collection, The Acts of Oblivion, listens in on some of England's lost futures, such as those offered by radical...

Contains the poems of Mrs. Browning including "Sonnets from the Portuguese," and "Aurora Leigh."

Illustrations depicting the activities of a variety of long-ago Londoners accompany the traditional rhyme about the many church bells of that city.

"A collection of verses that chronicle the land and seasons of New England, express pride in accomplishments, and describe the world as viewed by a military veteran."--Page [4] of cover.