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Madison Cawein - Old Inn

Madison Julius Cawein was a poet from Louisville, Kentucky. Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. — Summary by...

Bruce Kachuk and 9 more 18 minutes

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Archibald Lampman - In November

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 9 more 29 minutes

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William Lisle Bowles - On Hearing the Messiah

Bowles came from a line of Church of England clergymen. His great-grandfather Matthew Bowles, grandfather Dr Thomas Bowles and father William Thomas Bowles had all been parish priests. In 1789 he published, in a...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 15 minutes

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Poetry

442

Eugene Field - Christmas Tales and Christmas Verse

This is a collection of Christmas short stories and poems by Eugene Field, published in 1912. The stories beautifully evoke an old-fashioned spirit of Christmas, each presenting a different angle of this special...

Kangaroo and 3 more 2 hours 21 minutes

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Thomas O'Hagan - In The Trenches

Dr. O'Hagan writes with a clear eye, a sane mind, and a sensitive heart. While agreeing in the main with Walter de la Mare, that «every book lives or perishes by virtue or default of its artistic sincerity,»...

Andrew Coleman and 10 more 15 minutes

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Children's Non-fiction

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Gertrude Chandler Warner - Star Stories for Little Folks

Gertrude Chandler Warner, known mainly for her «Boxcar Children» series of mystery books, published this small book of Astronomy, Constellations, and the stories behind them in 1918. It follows the story of a little...

DebK and 3 more 39 minutes

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William Cullen Bryant - October - A Sonnet

William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Bryant edited the very successful Picturesque America which was published between 1872 and 1874. This...

Algy Pug and 17 more 22 minutes

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Rainbow Gold: Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls

Poetry

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Rainbow Gold: Poems Old and New Selected for Boys and Girls

This collection of poems, selected by Sara Teasdale, a talented poet in her own right, is made to appeal to children, both girls and boys. They are not poems about children, but for children. Neither does this mean...

BettyB and 16 more 3 hours 27 minutes

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Nature

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Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No 5, December 1899

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

BettyB and 5 more 2 hours 12 minutes Birds; Birds and All Nature; Nature and Art; Birds and Nature - Volumes I, IV-XII (Volume II in progress)

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Short works

445

Eugene Field - Little Book of Profitable Tales

An anthology of charming short stories, written by the poet for his only daughter Mary. The style is simple and conversational, sometimes dealing with the difficult subjects confronting children of the day, including...

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Bibles

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American Standard Version - Bible Passages Collection 002

LibriVox recording of Bible Passages Collection 002 with selections from the American Standard Version; King James Version (KJV); World English Bible; Open English Bible; and Updated King James Version (UKJV).

Kangaroo and 9 more 1 hour 24 minutes

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Poetry

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Nannie Rebecca Glass - Mountain Spring and Other Poems

This is a little volume of poems of nature and religion by Virginia poet Nannie Rebecca Glass. — Summary by Carolin

Larry Wilson and 8 more 1 hour 16 minutes

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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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