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If you are fortunate enough to read French, (or had it drummed into you as a kid), then it gives an ...
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Enjoy poems from some of today’s most distinguished poets, brought to you by Knopf.
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Wikipedia Tour: The Grand Tour
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Explore history, literature, and art with our Grand Wikipedia Tour. It's your personal journey towards cultural enlightenment--five minutes at a time.
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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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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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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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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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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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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar
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Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes. To work some potent spell, her magic plies. Ere sleep comes down to soothe the weary eyes. Are bodied forth within the teeming gloom. Ere sleep comes dow ...
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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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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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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 Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume I
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PREFACE. recension of 1839, or that of any subsequent editor of the "Poems". has been added below. inconsistencies in this ...
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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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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 ...
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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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Whitman and Yeats, Dickinson and Stein, Eliot and Frost. We all know their names. We’ve all read (or, in some instances, been forced to read) the poems that made them famous. But in their dusty tome ...
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