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Robert Laurence Binyon - Seasons' Comfort

Robert Laurence Binyon, was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services. — Summary by Wikipedia

Algy Pug and 12 more 10 minutes

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Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to Be Used to Prevent It

Health & Fitness

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Richard Mead - Short Discourse Concerning Pestilential Contagion, and the Methods to Be Used to Prevent It

This is a work written about the plague in France and how to prevent its spread. It is considered an important historical work for the understanding of transmittable diseases. — Summary by afutterer

Paul Mazumdar 57 minutes

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D. H. Lawrence - Afternoon in School - the last lesson

David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. His collected works represent, among other things, an extended reflection upon the dehumanising effects of...

Algy Pug and 11 more 22 minutes

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Humorous Fiction

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Molière - Impromptu of Versailles

The setup here is that Moliere and his troupe have been sent for by the King to come perform at Versailles. But instead of the piece they had prepared, the King has just asked for an entirely new piece — to be ready...

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Robert Browning - My Last Duchess

NOTES: «My Last Duchess» puts in the mouth of a Duke of Ferrara, a typical husband and art patron of the Renaissance, a description of his last wife, whose happy nature and universal kindliness were a...

ashleighjane and 10 more 44 minutes

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Giacomo Leopardi - To The Moon

Giacomo Leopardi is a great name in Italy among philosophers and poets, but is quite unknown in this country, and Mr. Townsend has the honor of introducing him, in the most captivating way, to his countrymen. In...

Algy Pug and 13 more 20 minutes

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Sun Shadows

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. This Weekly Poem is taken from her collection, Poems of Sentiment (1919)

Algy Pug and 13 more 14 minutes

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Published 1900 onward

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Florence Morse Kingsley - Transfiguration of Miss Philura

What would happen if someone really believed that «Ask and you shall receive»? Amusing observations on the impact on the life of mild-mannered spinster Miss Philura and her acquaintances in their small American...

annie70 43 minutes

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Poetry

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Frederick Locker-Lampson - London Lyrics

London is one of the most interesting cities in the world, and is inspiring poets until today. This particular volume on the charms of that metropolis is written by native Londoner Frederick Locker-Lampson, originally...

aniroo and 11 more 1 hour 24 minutes

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Year's Spinning

Elizabeth Barrett Browning was one of the most prominent English poets of the Victorian era, popular in Britain and the United States during her lifetime. — Summary by Wikipedia

Dan Gurzynski and 9 more 23 minutes

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William Lisle Bowles - River Wainsbeck

William Lisle Bowles was an English priest, poet and critic. The Wainsbeck is a sequestered river in Northumberland, having on its banks «Our Lady's Chapel,» three-quarters of a mile west of Bothal. It has been...

Algy Pug and 8 more 11 minutes

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Sara Teasdale - Kind Moon

Ever wonder how the moon seems to follow you around through the sky? Sara Teasdale gives her version of this observation in this poem taken from her collection 'Helen of Troy, and Other Poems'. (David Lawrence)

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 10 minutes

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