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I would love to see more contemporary poetry offered on DailyLit. I'm a huge fan of contemporar ...
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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 ...
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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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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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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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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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POEMS. BY CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI. I INSCRIBE THIS BOOK. June 8, 1857. Not a hope in the world remained: Gained and gained and gained. Young, strong, and so full of life: The a ...
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The muses are singing in this Poetry Sampler, which brings together tastes of the very best in verse. From Alexander Pope’s sharp wit to Poe’s dark, macabre vision, the poems sampled here are as d ...
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Epic battles, meddlesome gods, a great city’s downfall, a heartbroken queen—these are the subjects of The Aeneid, an epic poem by the ancient Roman writer Virgil. The story begins with the destruc ...
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1
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BY late accounts from Rotterdam, that city seems to be in a high state of philosophical excitement. Indeed, phenomena have there occurred of a nature so completely unexpected -- so entirely novel -- s ...
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Poem: Helas! Mine ancient wisdom, and austere control? Which do but mar the secret of the whole. Struck one clear chord to reach the ears of God: And must I lose a soul's ...
The Ballad of Reading Gaol and Other Poems
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In 1895, playwright Oscar Wilde was imprisoned for homosexuality. His cruel fall from grace left Wilde in the cold and gloomy atmosphere of Reading Gaol, or Prison, for two long years. Although cut of ...
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PREFACE. and is superior to, the numerous collections which have preceded it. published at New York in 1850. on which all the pieces referred to have been garnered into one sheaf. manuscript sources d ...
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LYRICAL BALLADS, WITH OTHER POEMS. IN TWO VOLUMES. By W. WORDSWORTH. Quam nihil ad genium, Papiniane, tuum! VOL. I. SECOND EDITION. PREFACE. The First Volume of these Poems has already been submitted ...
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PREFACE TO THE POEMS. some emendations, and has been supplemented by additional variants. Maggiore'. the sentences as they occur. marked 'MS. erased'. Poems and plays are given, so far as possible, in ...
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