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Leaves of Grass is a groundbreaking collection of poems by nineteenth century poet Walt Whitman. An early free spirit, Whitman was inspired to put what he felt was the voice of the American everyman o ...
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From the seclusion of her modest New England home, the Belle of Amherst wrote hundreds of poems that perplex and delight readers to this day. As unusual as their creator, Dickinson's poems remained la ...
It Can Be Done, Poems of Inspiration
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Have you ever wished you could start the day with some words of wisdom, courage, or optimism to guide you? The pieces featured in this 1921 collection offer just this sort of advice. Cheer up and real ...
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Is this another collection of stupid poems that children cannot use? Will they look hopelessly through this volume for poems that suit them? Will they say despairingly, "This is too long," and "That ...
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As Adam and Eve make their debut in the world, as pure and innocent as can be, a vengeful Satan enlists a dark army to wreak havoc on the earth. Milton's 1667 epic offers a still-revolutionary and mod ...
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In the middle of a springtime pilgrimage, several weary travelers on their way to Canterbury decide to stop for the night. The men and women gather at an inn and begin a story-telling contest to see w ...
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Here is the very heart of English poetry, still beating strong and clear after nearly four centuries. Shakespeare's Sonnets were first published in their entirety in 1609. They feature some of the mos ...
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The delicate rhyme of a sonnet, the sharp disruptions of modernist poems, the enigmatic phrases of the ancient bards: these make up the essence of an ages-old form of art. But who are the people whose ...
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Dante's Inferno is one of the grandest visions ever conceived of a frightening world beyond our own. What does the underworld look like? Who ends up there? What happens to these unlucky souls? Dante's ...
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I would love to see more contemporary poetry offered on DailyLit. I'm a huge fan of contemporar ...