Brian Darby

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Essays & Short Works

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Caleb Bingham - Columbian Orator

The Columbian Orator, a collection of political essays, poems, and dialogues first published in 1797, was widely used in American schoolrooms in the first quarter of the 19th century to teach reading and speaking....

TheNeobro and 8 more 11 hours 33 minutes

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Jean Ingelow - Comfort in the Night

Jean Ingelow was an English poet and novelist. — Summary by Wikipedia

ashleighjane and 12 more 15 minutes

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Christina Rossetti - Summer

Christina Georgina Rossetti was an English poet who wrote a variety of romantic, devotional, and children's poems. She is famous for writing Goblin Market and Remember, and the words of the Christmas carol In the...

Andy Harrington and 11 more 16 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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Sara Teasdale - Rivers to the Sea

This is Sara Teasdale's third published collection of poetry. The collection was published in 1915, and contains the famous poem «I Shall Not Care», the melancholy and dark tone of which is often connected with her...

Anusha Iyer and 12 more 1 hour 51 minutes

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Henry Lawson - Men Who Live It Down

MANY of the verses in this volume (When I Was King (1906)) appeared originally in the SYDNEY Bulletin, others in the Daily Telegraph, Town and Country Journal, Evening News, World's News, Australian Star, Amateur...

ashleighjane and 11 more 30 minutes

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Eric Mackay - Thunderstorm at Night

George Eric Mackay was an English minor poet, now remembered as the sponging half-brother of Marie Corelli, the best-selling novelist. Mackay and Corelli, born Mary Mackay, were the children of Charles Mackay, by...

Bruce Kachuk and 13 more 17 minutes

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Eugene Field - Dr. Sam

Eugene Field, Sr. was an American writer, best known for his children's poetry and humorous essays. Field first started publishing poetry in 1879, when his poem «Christmas Treasures» appeared in A Little Book of...

Amanda Veale and 7 more 19 minutes

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Ernest Dowson - My Lady April

Ernest Christopher Dowson was an English poet, novelist, and short-story writer, often associated with the Decadent movement. — Summary by Wikipedia

Algy Pug and 10 more 13 minutes

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George Wither - Rhomboidal Dirge

George Wither was an English poet, pamphleteer, and satirist. He was a prolific writer who adopted a deliberate plainness of style; he was several times imprisoned. C. V. Wedgwood wrote «every so often in the barren...

Brian Darby and 4 more 25 minutes

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Bliss Carman - Epilogue

In 1904, Canadian poet Bliss Carman published Sappho: One Hundred Lyrics, which was not just a translation of the fragments but an imaginative reconstruction of the lost poems. While of little to no scholarly value,...

Brian Darby and 6 more 15 minutes

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New

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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