1. Rumi: The Book of Love: Poems of Ecstasy and Longing
Publisher: HarperOne
Written By: Coleman Barks

I hear nothing in my ear
but your voice.
Heart has plundered mind
of its eloquence.

Love writes a transparent
calligraphy, so on
the empty page my soul
can read and recollect.

The Sufi mystic and poet Jalaluddin Rumi is most beloved for his poems expressing the ecstasies and mysteries of love in all its forms -- erotic, platonic, divine -- more..

2. Complete Tales & Poems of Edgar Allen Poe
Publisher: Vintage Books
Written By: Edgar Allan Poe

All of the tales by the master of the detective and the macabre story. 53 of his best-known poems plus essays and criticisms. more..

3. The Collected Poems of W.B. Yeats
Publisher: Scribner
Written By: William Butler Yeats

The Collected Poems of W. B. Yeats includes all of the poems authorized by Yeats for inclusion in his standard canon. Breathtaking in range, it encompasses the entire arc of his career, from luminous reworkings of ancient Irish myths and legends to passionate meditations on the demands and rewards of youth and old age, from exquisite, occasionally whimsical songs of love, nature, and more..

4. Under the Lilacs (Dodo Press)
Publisher: Dodo Press
Written By: Louisa May Alcott

Large Format for easy reading. By the author of Little Women. A wonderful children's story about Ben Brown, his performing poodle Sancho, and the two young girls who feed and care for them after the boy and dog run away from the circus. more..

5. Beowulf (Signet Classics) (Old English Edition)
Publisher: Signet Classics
Written By: Anonymous

The epic poem of war and adventure.

Beowulf is the earliest extant poem in a modern European language. It was composed in England four centuries before the Norman Conquest. But no one knows exactly when it was composed, or by whom, or why. As a social document this great epic reflects a feudal, newly Christian world of heroes and monsters, blood and victory and death.

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6. Waiting for Godot
Publisher: Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC Audio)
Written By: Samuel Beckett

"Nothing happens, nobody comes, nobody goes, it's awful?" Estragon's complaint, uttered in the first act of "Waiting for Godot", is the playwright's sly joke at the expense of his own play - or rather at the expense of those in the audience who expect theatre always to consist of events progressing in an apparently purposeful and logical manner towards a decisive climax. In those terms, "Waiting more..

7. The Practice of the Presence of God
Publisher: Shambhala
Written By: Brother Lawrence

The Practice of the Presence of God is among the most enduringly popular of all Christian devotional works. It is a collection of conversations with a simple seventeenth-century French Carmelite monk who, through the simplest of everyday activities, was able to achieve a profound intimacy with God. Brother Lawrence's teaching has resonated with Christians for more than three hundred more..

8. New and Selected Poems, Volume Two
Publisher: Beacon Press
Written By: Mary Oliver

Mary Oliver has been writing poetry for nearly five decades, and in that time she has become America’s foremost poetic voice on our experience of the physical world. This collection presents forty-two new poems—an entire volume in itself—along with works chosen by Oliver from six of the books she has published since New and Selected Poems, Volume One.

“Oliver’s poetry more..

9. Death of a Salesman
Publisher: Caedmon
Written By: Arthur H. Miller

“A contemporary classic. . . listen to this album.” --The New York Times

Death of a Salesman burst upon the scene in 1949, and is as fresh and meaningful today as it was when it opened on Broadway - and won the Drama Critics' Circle Award, the Tony Award and the Pulitzer Prize.

As Death of a Salesman is Miller's great play, Willy Loman is Lee J. Cobb's great role. He created the part on more..

10. A Boy's Will
Publisher: Book Jungle
Written By: Robert Frost

Robert Frost is one of America's best-loved poets. His simple style and his frequent theme of rural life in New England make his poetry a delight to read. This first poetry book of Frost deals with man's fears and tragedies, man's reaction to life and man's acceptance of his trials. more..