Elizabeth P.

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Archibald Lampman - Refuge

Archibald Lampman FRSC was a Canadian poet. «He has been described as 'the Canadian Keats;' and he is perhaps the most outstanding exponent of the Canadian school of nature poets.» The Canadian Encyclopedia says that...

Bruce Kachuk and 17 more 20 minutes

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Algernon Charles Swinburne - Songs Before Sunrise

This is a collection of some particularly beautiful poems of Algernon Charles Swinburne. This collection is connected by the Italian theme, as Swinburne was inspired to write most of them after learning of the Italian...

Elizabeth P. and 13 more 5 hours 8 minutes

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Place Of Burial In The South Of Scotland

Culture & Heritage Fiction

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William Wordsworth - Place Of Burial In The South Of Scotland

This poem is part of the «Ecclesiastical Sonnets,» writen by Wordsworth between 1821 — 22. — Summary by David Lawrence

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Rudyard Kipling - Power of the Dog

Kipling was one of the most popular writers in the United Kingdom, in both prose and verse, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In 1907, at the age of 42, he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, making...

Andy Harrington and 12 more 31 minutes

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Madison Cawein - End of Summer

Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. — Summary by Wikipedia

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Solar Eclipse

A commemoration of the recent solar eclipse is presented in this week's group reading. — Summary by David Lawrence

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Robert F. Murray - Where's The Use

Robert Fuller Murray was a Victorian poet. Although born in the United States, Murray lived most of his life in the United Kingdom, most notably in St Andrews, Scotland. He wrote two books of poetry and was published...

Bruce Kachuk and 12 more 8 minutes

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Singing Man: A Book of Songs and Shadows

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Josephine Preston Peabody - Singing Man: A Book of Songs and Shadows

This is a collection of a number of long narrative poems. Ms. Peabody's poetry is marked by vivacity and living images. The poems contained in this collection are a great example of Ms. Peabody's style. — Summary by...

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Rosanna Eleanor Leprohon - Canadian Summer Evening

From this imperfect sketch of Mrs. Leprohon’s literary life it will be seen that she was no sluggard. But we would leave a wrong impression if we gave it to be understood that all her time was passed in the writing of...

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Bliss Carman - By the Aurelian Wall and Other Elegies

This is a small volume of beautiful melancholy verses by Canadian poet Bliss Carman. The poems share a common theme which is the death of persons known and unknown to the poet. — Summary by Carolin

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Family Life

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Domestic Bliss

This scene of 'Domestic Bliss' is from Poems of Cheer by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. (Pub 1914) — Summary by David Lawrence

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Henry Lawson - When Your Pants Begin To Go

Henry Archibald Hertzberg Lawson was an Australian writer and bush poet. Along with his contemporary Banjo Paterson, Lawson is among the best-known Australian poets and fiction writers of the colonial period and is...

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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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