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Oscar Wilde - Fuite de la Lune

While at Trinity Collage, Wilde obtained a reputation for clever repartee and keen wit. He affected a superior air in his manners which irritated his fellow undergraduates, so that he once became the object of their...

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Omar Khayyám - Third Rubaiyat Miscellany

In addition to Edward Fitzgerald, many authors have produced versions of the quatrains of Omar Khayyam. This collection features the work of some less well known English translators. In an article in The North...

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William Cullen Bryant - To The Fringed Gentian

William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. He is also remembered as one of the principal authorities on homeopathy and as a hymnist for the...

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John Hay - White Flag

John Milton Hay was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln, Hay's highest office was...

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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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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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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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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow - Slave In The Dismal Swamp

This little poem, with it's masterful choice of heavy-laden words, and great alliteration that sounds like a drumbeat, or a heartbeat, and rolls off the tongue, conveys much horror in a very few words. Longfellow...

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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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