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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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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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Beowulf is one of the most ancient texts in all of European literature. It is a tale of epic proportions, set in an age of gallant warriors, elaborate ritual, and terrifying monsters. The story begins ...
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Enjoy poems from some of today’s most distinguished poets, brought to you by Knopf.
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Paradise, the conclusion of Dante’s epic Divine Comedy, opens with Virgil, who is not a Christian, being left behind in limbo as Dante at last exits Purgatory. Although he must leave his faithful gu ...
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As Dante’s Purgatory, the second part of his grand Divine Comedy, opens, Dante and his guide Virgil have at last made their way out of the terrifying Inferno. Once out of the horrible circles of hel ...
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Whereby all life is stirred: The norm of every royal-reckoned attribute," No mortal knew or heard. And the world's heart was won . . . Till ripening years have run. 27th January ...
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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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The study of the Faerie Queene should be preceded by a review of the great age in which it was written. An intimate relation exists between the history of the English nation and the works of English a ...
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Dreaming of both. Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain. Bitten by flies, fought. Blistered in Brussels, patched and peeled in London. Rocks, moss, stonecrop, iron, merds. Sneezes at evening, pokin ...
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The Works of Edgar Allan Poe - Volume 5
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PHILOSOPHY OF FURNITURE. Chinese and most of the eastern races have a warm but inappropriate fancy. Kickapoos are very well in their way. The Yankees alone are preposterous. at any time be successfull ...
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Than to enjoy delight with liberty." _Fate of the Butterfly_.--SPENSER. DEDICATION. TO LEIGH HUNT, ESQ. Into the east, to meet the smiling day: The shrine of Flora in her early May. With these poor ...
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And beacons burn again. That God has saved the Queen. Who shared the work with God. The saviours come not home to-night: Themselves they could not save. Beside the Severn's dead. The land they pe ...
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CLAIR DE LUNE. Of being sad in their fantastic trim. The fountains tall to sob with ...
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“How do I love thee? Let me count the ways...” Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s Sonnets from the Portuguese are famous for lines like those, ones that evoke the emotions of love so truly—its subl ...
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The Rape of the Lock and Other Poems
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note, and the 'Epitaph on Gay'. Edition prepared by Professor A. W. Ward. obscured by the poet's effort after brevity and concision. give an outline of the train of thought which they embody. poet, bu ...
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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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