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Percy Bysshe Shelley - Dirge for the Year

Percy Bysshe Shelley was one of the major English Romantic poets, and is regarded by some as among the finest lyric, as well as epic, poets in the English language. A radical in his poetry as well as in his political...

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John Greenleaf Whittier - Christmas Carmen

John Greenleaf Whittier was an American Quaker poet and advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. Frequently listed as one of the Fireside Poets, Whittier was influenced by the Scottish poet Robert...

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James Whitcomb Riley - God Bless Us Everyone

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. During his lifetime he was known as the «Hoosier Poet» and «Children's Poet» for his dialect works and his children's poetry respectively....

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Thomas Moore - I Saw the Moon Rise Clear

Thomas Moore was an Irish poet, singer, songwriter, and entertainer, now best remembered for the lyrics of «The Minstrel Boy» and «The Last Rose of Summer». Moore is often considered Ireland's National Bard and is...

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Thomas Moore - Love Thee ?

This is the Weekly Poem for the week of November 29th, 2015. Another romantic love poem by the irish poet Thomas Moore. — Summary by Stav Nisser.

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Rupert Brooke - Charm

To all who knew him, the man himself was at least as important as his work. «As to his talk» — I quote again from Mr. Somerset — «he was a spendthrift. I mean that he never saved anything up as those writer fellows so...

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Helen Hunt Jackson - November

Helen Maria Hunt Jackson, born Helen Fiske was an American poet and writer who became an activist on behalf of improved treatment of Native Americans by the U.S. government. She described the adverse effects of...

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Arthur Hugh Clough - Say Not the Struggle Naught Availeth

Arthur Hugh Clough (kluf) was an English poet, an educationalist, and the devoted assistant to ground-breaking nurse Florence Nightingale. He was the brother of suffragist Anne Clough, who became principal of Newnham...

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Hamlin Garland - In the Autumn Grass

LibriVox volunteers take us out on the prairie among the wind and blue stem with readings of In the Autumn Grass by Hamlin Garland. This is the fortnightly poem for November 8, 2015.

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John William Streets - Challenge

The editor of the volume Made in the Trenches includes these poignant notes: Corporal Streets, in submitting these sonnets some months ago, wrote: «They express not only my feelings but the feelings of thousands...

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Sara Teasdale - Lights

Sara Teasdale was an American lyric poet. Teasdale's first poem was published in Reedy's Mirror, a local newspaper in St. Louis, in 1907. Her first collection of poems, Sonnets to Duse and Other Poems, was published...

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Dora Sigerson Shorter - Priest's Brother

Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. She was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of George Sigerson, a surgeon...

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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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