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A. E. Housman - Shropshire Lad (Version 3)

Composed while Housman was living in London, and mostly before he even visited the county of Shropshire, A Shropshire Lad is a cycle of 63 poems which describe an idyllic rural existence, but with the main theme being...

clarinetcarrot 1 hour 7 minutes

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Bret Harte - Willows

The Willows is a parody on the verse of Edgar Allan Poe. Francis Bret Harte was an American author and poet, best remembered for his short fiction featuring miners, gamblers, and other romantic figures of the...

Bruce Kachuk and 5 more 27 minutes

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John Clare - Flood

John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major...

Amy Gramour and 12 more 16 minutes

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Poetry

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William Blake - Marriage of Heaven and Hell (version 2)

«The road of excess leads to the palace of wisdom.» The Marriage of Heaven & Hell is William Blake’s masterpiece – a piously blasphemous reimagining of the duality of good and evil as an eternal dance of equally...

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Emily Dickinson - Troubled About Many Things

The verses of Emily Dickinson belong emphatically to what Emerson long since called «the Poetry of the Portfolio,»—something produced absolutely without the thought of publication, and solely by way of expression of...

Bruce Kachuk and 11 more 14 minutes

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Poetry

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Helen Gray Cone - Ride to the Lady, and Other Poems

This is a volume of poems by New York poet Helen Gray Cone. — Summary by Carolin

Jude and 9 more 1 hour 22 minutes

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Sonnets

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Myrtle Reed - Sonnets to a Lover

This is a book of poetry by Myrtle Reed. Ms. Reed is most famous for her love stories such as A Spinner in the Sun and Old Rose and Silver , and these sonnets are an exploration of the same theme through a...

Liz Trollinger and 5 more 51 minutes

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Poetry

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Lewis Carroll - Three Sunsets and Other Poems

Lewis Carroll's most enduring works are the Adventures of Alice in Wonderland, but he also wrote some very interesting poetry. The poems in this particular volume are called «serious» in the preface, and though they...

BettyB and 6 more 55 minutes

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Rudyard Kipling - White Man's Burden

Rudyard Kipling was an English journalist, short-story writer, poet, and novelist. Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th...

3Dad and 10 more 31 minutes

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Herbert Trench - She Comes Not

Frederic Herbert Trench was an Irish poet. A number of his poems were set set to music and he moved into theatrical work for a few years. — Summary by Wikipedia

Allen Kelly and 11 more 8 minutes

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Thomas Hardy - Middle Age Enthusiasms

Thomas Hardy, OM was an English novelist and poet. A Victorian realist in the tradition of George Eliot, he was influenced both in his novels and in his poetry by Romanticism, especially William Wordsworth. Charles...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 15 minutes

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William Allingham - Sixteen Poems

This is a collection of 16 poems by William Allingham, selected and brought together by his admirer William Butler Yeats several years after Allingham's death. — Summary by Carolin

Lian Pang and 5 more 41 minutes

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