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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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Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 5, May 1902

«Birds and Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with...

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Edgar Allan Poe - Haunted Palace

«The Haunted Palace» originally issued in the Baltimore American Museum for April, 1888, was subsequently embodied in that much admired tale, «The Fall of the House of Usher,» and published in it in Burton's...

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Gerard Manley Hopkins - Pied Beauty

In the Author's Preface to Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, he describes this poem as Curtal-Sonnet «that is they are constructed in proportions resembling those of the sonnet proper, namely 6 + 4 instead of 8 + 6,...

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James Elroy Flecker - Ship, an Isle, a Sickle Moon

Of all recent poets of his kind, Flecker is the most successful. The classical tradition of poetry has been mocked and mutilated by many of the noisy young in the last few years. Flecker was a poet who preserved the...

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Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 4, April 1902

«Birds and Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with...

tovarisch and 11 more 2 hours 21 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Gerard Manley Hopkins - I Have Desired To Go

Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His manipulation of prosody (particularly his concept of sprung rhythm and use...

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Robert Southey - Stanzas Written in His Library

Poem #619 in The Book Of Georgian Verse, page 1110, published 1909. This poem seems so appropriate to what we do at LibriVox, surrounding ourselves with, learning from, and keeping alive the memories of deceased...

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Sara Teasdale - Four Winds

In 1918 she won a Pulitzer Prize for her 1917 poetry collection Love Songs. It was «made possible by a special grant from The Poetry Society»; however, the sponsoring organization now lists it as the earliest Pulitzer...

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Birds and Nature, Vol. XI, No 2, February 1902

«Birds and Nature» was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems, anecdotes and factual descriptions of birds, animals and other natural subjects with...

Nemo and 10 more 2 hours 19 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Over Every Hill

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe was a German writer and statesman. His works include four novels; epic and lyric poetry; prose and verse dramas; memoirs; an autobiography; literary and aesthetic criticism; and treatises on...

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