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Dorothy Parker - Men I'm Not Married To

A saucy little poem commenting upon all men that Ms. Parker didn't marry, perhaps implying (it's a bit ambiguous) that upon marrying, the husband becomes far more special than all the other men in the world. It's sort...

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James Whitcomb Riley - In A Box

James Whitcomb Riley was an American writer, poet, and best-selling author. His poems tended to be humorous or sentimental, and of the approximately one thousand poems that Riley authored, the majority are in dialect....

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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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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - You Never Can Tell

Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. Her most enduring work was «Solitude», which contains the lines «Laugh, and the world laughs with you; weep, and you weep...

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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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Nature & Animal Fiction

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Madison Cawein - End of Summer

Cawein's poetry allied his love of nature with a devotion to earlier English and European literature, mythology, and classical allusion. — Summary by Wikipedia

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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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Richard Hovey - At the Club

LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of At the Club by Richard Hovey. This was the Weekly Poetry project for August 3, 2013. Richard Hovey was an American poet. Graduating from Dartmouth College in 1885,...

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Thomas Moore - Song of the Olden Time

From a relatively early age Moore showed an interest in music and other performing arts. He sometimes appeared in musical plays with his friends, such as The Poor Soldier by John O'Keeffe (music by William Shield),...

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Bjørnstjerne Bjørnson - Maidens' Song

Bjørnstjerne Martinius Bjørnson was a Norwegian writer who received the 1903 Nobel Prize in Literature «as a tribute to his noble, magnificent and versatile poetry, which has always been distinguished by both the...

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Edith M. Thomas - What The Pine Trees Said

Edith Matilda Thomas was an American poet who «was one of the first poets to capture successfully the excitement of the modern city. (Wikipedia)

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William Lisle Bowles - River Wainsbeck

William Lisle Bowles was an English priest, poet and critic. The Wainsbeck is a sequestered river in Northumberland, having on its banks «Our Lady's Chapel,» three-quarters of a mile west of Bothal. It has been...

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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

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Around the World with the Children Frank G. Carpenter

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