Lee Ann Howlett

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Oscar Wilde - Fuite de la Lune

While at Trinity Collage, Wilde obtained a reputation for clever repartee and keen wit. He affected a superior air in his manners which irritated his fellow undergraduates, so that he once became the object of their...

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William Cullen Bryant - To The Fringed Gentian

William Cullen Bryant was an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. He is also remembered as one of the principal authorities on homeopathy and as a hymnist for the...

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John Hay - White Flag

John Milton Hay was an American statesman and official whose career in government stretched over almost half a century. Beginning as a private secretary and assistant to Abraham Lincoln, Hay's highest office was...

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Ivan Turgenev - Stone

Ivan Sergeyevich Turgenev was a Russian novelist, short story writer, poet, playwright, translator and popularizer of Russian literature in the West. This taken from his DREAM TALES AND PROSE POEMS translated by...

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Paul Laurence Dunbar - Poet and The Baby

What struck me in reading Mr. Dunbar's poetry was what had already struck his friends in Ohio and Indiana, in Kentucky and Illinois. They had felt, as I felt, that however gifted his race had proven itself in music,...

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Samuel Rogers - Wish

Samuel Rogers was an English poet, during his lifetime one of the most celebrated, although his fame has long since been eclipsed by his Romantic colleagues and friends Wordsworth, Coleridge and Byron. His...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Compassion

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her works include Poems of Passion and Solitude, which contains the lines «Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep alone». This poem is taken for...

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Arthur Macy - Easy Knowledge

Arthur Macy did not consider his work of sufficiently high poetic standard to be published. Every one praised his choice of words, his wonderful facility in rhyme, the perfection of his metre, and the daintiness and...

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Walt Whitman - Roots and Leaves Themselves Alone

Walter «Walt» Whitman was an American poet, essayist, and journalist, in addition to publishing his poetry—was a volunteer nurse during the American Civil War. Whitman's major work, Leaves of Grass, was first...

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John Charles McNeill - Home Songs

McNeill died at an early age of 36 years, but during his brief life he established himself as the foremost literary figure of North Carolina and was hailed for many years by popular acclaim as the state's unofficial...

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning - Consolation

This Weekly Poem is taken from The Queens' Garden — Poems by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and others. — Summary by David Lawrence

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Rainer Maria Rilke - Panther

René Karl Wilhelm Johann Josef Maria Rilke, better known as Rainer Maria Rilke, was a Bohemian-Austrian poet and novelist. He is «widely recognized as one of the most lyrically intense German-language poets». He wrote...

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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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