Lee Ann Howlett

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Ring Lardner - His Lady Friend

This week's poem is taken from Ringgold Wilmer «Ring» Lardner's Bib Ballads book of poetry about his child. In his Forward he says Dear Parents:—Don't imagine, please, It's in a boastful spirit I fashion...

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Harold Monro - Man Carrying Bale

Harold Edward Monro was an English poet born in Brussels and proprietor of the Poetry Bookshop in London, which helped many poets bring their work before the public. In his later years, Monro reflected on whether...

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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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Michael Field - Visiting Stars

Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katharine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her niece and ward Edith Emma Cooper (12 January 1862 – 13 December 1913). As...

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Thomas Carew - Song: Eternity of Love Protested

Thomas Carew (pronounced «Carey») (1595 — 1640) was one of the Cavalier poets, a group associated with the unfortunate King Charles I, who was a notable connoisseur of poetry. Other poets in this school included...

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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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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 Browning - Wanting is - What?

Robert Browning was an English poet and playwright whose mastery of the dramatic monologue made him one of the foremost Victorian poets. His poems are known for their irony, characterization, dark humour, social...

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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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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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Virna Sheard - April

This short tribute to April and the coming of Spring) is taken from The Miracle, and Other Poems by Virna Sheard (1913) — Summary by David Lawrence

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Alfred Austin - Fortunatus' Song

Not all of the English poets laureate have been the greatest masters of verse. Alfred Austin, who assumed this post after Alfred Lord Tennyson, was one of the less distinguished — if more prolific — late Victorian...

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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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