American Verse Project: Courtship of Miles Standish and Other Poems

Here's a resource that deserves a place in your curriculum library. As part of their study of War Horse individuals create an anthology of World War I poetry. 

This is a 232 page PDF book of Anglo-Saxon and Norse poetry which was published in 1922 by Cambridge University Press. It was edited and translated by N. Kershaw.

This is the full text of the poetry collection The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses by Robert Service. This collection includes 34 poems most about the Yukon Gold Rush and life in the Yukon.

This site provides the complete etext for Oscar Wilde's collected work of poetry "Charmides and Other Poems."

This site from American Verse Project provides the online text for "Anti-Slavery Poems: Songs of Labor and Reform" by John Greenleaf Whittier. Poems can be viewed in plain text or as page-by-page images of the original work.

The University of Michigan offers the full text of "War-lyrics and Other Poems," which was written by a Union sailor and dedicated to former commander, Vice-Admiral David G. Farragut. Users are able to read the text in its entirety, or...

This site provides the complete etext for Lewis Carroll's "Phantasmagoria and Other Poems."

Tracy K. Smith's erasure poem "Declaration" challenges scholars to use their noticing skills to make connections between an engraving entitled "The Declaration of Independence" and Smith's poem. Class members record observations and...

The American Verse Project provides this full text version of Longfellow's famous poem, "Song of Hiawatha.

A reading of a New York Times review of the movie Beloved launches research into how the Civil War affected the lives of people living during this period. Creative thinkers select a person from an included list of historical figures and...