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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...

Bruce Kachuk and 17 more 19 minutes

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Ring Lardner - Visit From Young Gloom

Ringgold Wilmer «Ring» Lardner was an American sports columnist and short story writer best known for his satirical writings about sports, marriage, and the theatre. He was a contemporary of Ernest Hemingway, Virginia...

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Dora Sigerson Shorter - Old Maid (Shorter)

Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter. She was born in Dublin, Ireland, the daughter of George Sigerson, a surgeon...

David Lawrence and 8 more 19 minutes

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Sara Teasdale - Winter Stars

This Weekly Poem is taken from Flame and Shadow, Copyright, 1920 by THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. — Summary by David Lawrence

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Walt Whitman - When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer

Whitman claimed that after years of competing for «the usual rewards», he determined to become a poet. He first experimented with a variety of popular literary genres which appealed to the cultural tastes of the...

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Nature & Animal Fiction

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John Clare - Insects

John Clare was an English poet, the son of a farm labourer, who came to be known for his celebratory representations of the English countryside and his lamentation of its disruption. His poetry underwent a major...

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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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John Drinkwater - Symbols

John Drinkwater was an English poet and dramatist. In the period immediately before the First World War he was one of the group of poets associated with the Gloucestershire village of Dymock, along with Rupert Brooke...

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Sir Walter Scott - Knight And Wamba

A fun poem with a great rhythm. — Summary by Stav Nisser.

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Unknown - Canadian Boat-Song

Portion of an article in Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, VOL. XXVI July-December, 1829 «The late Earl of Eglinton, a distinguished member of a family not destitute of Celtic blood, and which has even been illustrious...

Bruce Kachuk and 7 more 19 minutes

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Hamlin Garland - In the Autumn Grass

LibriVox volunteers take us out on the prairie among the wind and blue stem with readings of In the Autumn Grass by Hamlin Garland. This is the fortnightly poem for November 8, 2015.

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Adelaide Anne Procter - Three Rulers

Adelaide Anne Procter was an English poet and philanthropist. She worked prominently on behalf of unemployed women and the homeless, and was actively involved with feminist groups and journals. She became unhealthy,...

Bruce Kachuk and 14 more 19 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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