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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Poems by Emily Dickinson

By Emily Dickinson

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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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Leaves of Grass

By Walt Whitman

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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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It Can Be Done, Poems of Inspiration

By Joseph Morris

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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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Sonnets

By William Shakespeare

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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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Poems Every Child Should Know

By Various

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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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The Canterbury Tales

By Geoffrey Chaucer

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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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Paradise Lost

By John Milton

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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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Spirits in Bondage

By C.S. Lewis

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The Complete Poems of Paul Laurence Dunbar

By 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 ...

Divine Comedy - The Inferno

By Dante Aligheri

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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 of Christina Rossetti

By Christina Rossetti

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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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Byron's Poetical Works

By Lord Byron

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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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Masters of Verse

By Poets & Writers

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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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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 1

By Edgar Allan Poe

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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 ...

Poems by Oscar Wilde

By Oscar Wilde

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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 Complete Poetical Works of Percy Bysshe Shelley, Volume I

By Percy Bysshe Shelley

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PREFACE. recension of 1839, or that of any subsequent editor of the "Poems". has been added below. inconsistencies in this ...

Poems of William Blake

By William Blake

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And he laughing said to me: "Pipe a song about a Lamb!" So I piped with merry cheer. "Piper, pipe that song again;" So I piped: he wept to hear. Sing thy songs of happy cheer:!" While h ...

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