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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Truth

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an English poet of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. Elizabeth Barrett wrote poetry from about the age of six. Her mother's collection...

Bruce Kachuk and 17 more 36 minutes

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Samuel Rogers - Wish

Samuel Rogers was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. His...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Compassion

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her works include Poems of Passion and Solitude, which contains the lines «Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone». This poem is taken for...

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Arthur Macy - Easy Knowledge

Arthur Macy did not consider his work of sufficiently high poetic standard to be published. Every one praised his choice of words, his wonderful facility in rhyme, the perfection of his metre, and the daintiness and...

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Walt Whitman - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone

Walter «Walt» Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist, in addition to publishing his poetry—was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first...

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John Charles McNeill - Home Songs

McNeill died at an early age of 36 years, but during his brief life he established himself as the foremost literary figure of North Carolina and was hailed for many years by popular acclaim as the state's unofficial...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Consolation

This Weekly Poem is taken from The Queens' Garden — Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and others. — Summary by David Lawrence

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Franklin Pierce Adams - Women I'm Not Married To

This poem, by Franklin P. Adams, is the sequel to/answer to Dorothy Parker's poem, Women I'm Not Married To, with a decidedly different but equally humorous take on the matter. ( Summary by Michele Fry )

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Rainer Maria Rilke - Panther

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is «widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets». He wrote...

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Ring Lardner - His Lady Friend

This week's poem is taken from Ringgold Wilmer «Ring» Lardner's Bib Ballads book of poetry about his child. In his Forward he says Dear Parents:—Don't imagine, please, It's in a boastful spirit I fashion...

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Harold Monro - Man Carrying Bale

Harold Edward Monro was an English poet born in Brussels and proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London, which helped many poets bring their work before the public. In his later years, Monro reflected on whether...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Three Things

Her final words in her autobiography The Worlds and I: «From this mighty storehouse (of God, and the hierarchies of Spiritual Beings) we may gather wisdom and knowledge, and receive light and power, as we pass through...

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