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Frances E. W. Harper - Crocuses

Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was an African-American abolitionist, suffragist, poet and author. She was also active in other types of social reform and was a member of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, which...

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Rudyard Kipling - I Keep Six Honest Serving-men

This poem about a child's inquisitiveness, follows the short story The Elephant's Child in Rudyard KIpling's Just So Stories. (1902) — Summary by David Lawrence

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Comfort To A Youth That Has Lost His Love

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Robert Herrick - Comfort To A Youth That Has Lost His Love

His verse is eminent for sweet and gracious fluency; this is a real note of the 'Elizabethan' poets. His subjects are frequently pastoral, with a classical tinge, more or less slight, infused; his language, though not...

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Joseph Horatio Chant - My Lot

Joseph Horatio Chant was born at Stoke Underham, Somersetshire, England. His parents moved to Canada in 1840, and settled in Niagara-on-the-Lake. Chant attended schools in the area and upon graduation taught for two...

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Henry Lawson - Shakedown on the Floor

Despite the bittersweet outcome of the romance in this work, the poem still manages to conclude in an uplifting fashion. — Summary by SonOfTheExiles

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Vachel Lindsay - Sunshine

It is hardly necessary, perhaps, to mention Mr. Lindsay's loyalty to the people of his place and hour, or the training in sympathy with their aims and ideals which he has achieved through vagabondish wanderings in the...

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - Ballad of the Oysterman

from THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: TO MY READERS NAY, blame me not; I might have spared Your patience many a trivial verse, Yet these my earlier welcome shared, So, let the better shield the...

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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Maidens' Song

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature «as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the...

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Dora Sigerson Shorter - Friend in Need

Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. — Summary by Wikipedia

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Bachelor to a Married Flirt

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was «Solitude», which contains the lines «Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep...

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Madison Cawein - Quarrel

This LIbriVox Weekly Poem is taken from The Poems of Madison Cawein, Volume II, New World Idylls and Poems of Love (1901) — Summary by David Lawrence

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Ring Lardner - Welcome to Spring

Ringgold Wilmer «Ring» Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and the theatre. He was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway, Virginia...

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Stolen Bacillus and other stories H. G. Wells

Eight Keys to Eden Mark Clifton

Songs of Innocence and Experience (version 2) William Blake

Russian Realities and Problems: Lectures delivered at Cambridge in August 1916

Short Story Collection Vol. 081

Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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