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426
William Roscoe - Selections from Harris's Cabinet
In the early 1800s, London publisher John Harris began producing small books for children that were designed not to instruct, but to entertain. One of these books, The Butterfly's Ball and the Grasshopper's Feast by...
1 hour 7 minutes
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441
Auberon Edward William Molyneux Herbert - Windfall and Waterdrift
This little square book, the colour of meadow forget-me-nots, is so modest and simple that it may very easily be passed over in a period which has little sympathy with tenderness of feeling and simplicity of...
1 hour 50 minutes
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426
Ethelwyn Wetherald - House of the Trees and Other Poems
Agnes Ethelwyn Wetherald was a Canadian poet and journalist, published across Canada and the United States. She also worked as an editor for the Globe and was part of the editorial staff for The Advertiser in...
1 hour 6 minutes
Poetry
432
Thomas Hardy - Satires of Circumstance, Lyrics and Reveries, with Miscellaneous Pieces
Published in 1914, this is a compilation of 107 poems by Thomas Hardy (1840-1928), who is probably better known as the author of such famous novels as Tess of the d'Urbervilles and Far from the Madding Crowd ....
3 hours 42 minutes
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457
Bliss Carman - Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics (version 2)
Sappho lived six centuries before Christ, at a period when lyric poetry was peculiarly esteemed and cultivated at the centres of Greek life. The metropolis of this lyric realm was Mitylene of Lesbos, where, amid the...
1 hour 22 minutes
