Leonard Wilson

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Ernest Vincent Wright - When Father Carves the Duck

Ernest Vincent Wright was an American author known for his book Gadsby, a 50,000-word novel which, except for the introduction and a note at the end, did not use the letter «e». The biographical details of his life...

Bruce Kachuk and 10 more 19 minutes

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Thomas Hood - Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

This is a collection of Thomas Hood's poems. Hood was an eminent British poet, regarded in particular for his humorous poetry, as well as his weird and fantastic poems. As William Michael Rossetti writes in his...

emceejohnnyg and 23 more 19 hours 28 minutes

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Sidney Lanier - Ship of Earth

But how short was his day, and how slender his opportunity! From the time he was of age he waged a constant, courageous, hopeless fight against adverse circumstance for room to live and write. Much very dear, and...

Bruce Kachuk and 12 more 13 minutes

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Bliss Carman - At Sunrise

Canada has full right to be proud of her poets, a small body though they are; but not only does Mr. Carman stand high and clear above them all—his place (and time cannot but confirm and justify the assertion) is among...

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Ellis Parker Butler - Whale

His career spanned more than forty years, and his stories, poems, and articles were published in more than 225 magazines. His work appeared alongside that of his contemporaries, including Mark Twain, Sax Rohmer, James...

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Conversion

Among the twelve hundred poems which have emanated from my too prolific pen there are some forty or fifty which treat entirely of that emotion which has been denominated «the grand passion»—love. A few of those are of...

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W. S. Gilbert - Usher's Charge

Sir William Schwenck Gilbert was an English dramatist, librettist, poet and illustrator best known for the fourteen comic operas (known as the Savoy operas) produced in collaboration with the composer Sir Arthur...

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Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw - American Girl

Alexander Hamilton Laidlaw was born in Scotland. He graduated from Philadelphia Central High School in 1845. He practiced medicine from 1856-1905 and published some works including Soldier Songs and Love Songs,...

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Lola Ridge - Fog

Lola Ridge, born Rose Emily Ridge was an Irish-American anarchist poet and an influential editor of avant-garde, feminist, and Marxist publications. She is best remembered for her long poems and poetic sequences,...

Autumn Kent and 14 more 12 minutes

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Will Carleton - Goin' Home To-Day

William McKendree Carleton was an American poet. Carleton's poems were most often about his rural life. «What Robert Burns did for the Scottish cotter and the Reverend William Barnes has done for the English farmer,...

Bruce Kachuk and 6 more 24 minutes

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Henry Kendall - Poems and Songs

Henry Kendall was the first Australian poet to draw his inspiration from the life, scenery and traditions of the country. In the beginnings of Australian poetry the names of two other men stand with his—Adam Lindsay...

Sylvester Lan and 8 more 2 hours 29 minutes

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George Pope Morris - Song of the Sewing-Machine

George Pope Morris was an American editor, poet, and songwriter. Critic and writer Edgar Allan Poe acknowledged the popularity of Morris's songs, «which have taken fast hold upon the popular taste, and which are...

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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

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Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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