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Algernon Charles Swinburne - Dark Month

This is a sequence of poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne. The poems were written in 1881, during the one month in which his seven year old neighbor, Herbert (Bertie) Mason was away.Swinburne describes in 31 poems his...

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To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window

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Adelaide Crapsey - To The Dead in the Graveyard Underneath My Window

Her death was tragic. Full of the desire of life she yet was forced to go, leaving her work all unfinished. Her last year was spent in exile at Saranac Lake. From her window she looked down on the graveyard —...

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Algernon Charles Swinburne - Match

LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of A Match by Algernon Charles Swinburne. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for May 19, 2019. — Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright,...

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Robert Browning - My Last Duchess

NOTES: «My Last Duchess» puts in the mouth of a Duke of Ferrara, a typical husband and art patron of the Renaissance, a description of his last wife, whose happy nature and universal kindliness were a...

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Henry van Dyke - Red Flower: Poems Written in War Time

These are verses that came to me in this dreadful war time amid the cares and labors of a heavy task. Two of the poems, «A Scrap of Paper» and «Stand Fast,» were written in 1914 and bore the signature Civis...

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John Donne - To His Mistress Going to Bed

John Donne was an English poet and cleric in the Church of England. He is considered the pre-eminent representative of the metaphysical poets. His works are noted for their strong, sensual style and include...

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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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Ella Wheeler Wilcox - Love's Language

LibriVox volunteers bring you 15 recordings of Love's Language, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for March 17, 2019. — One of Ella Wheeler Wilcox's most beautiful and passionate...

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Anna Katharine Green - At the Piano

Anna Katharine Green was an American poet and novelist. She was one of the first writers of detective fiction in America and distinguished herself by writing well plotted, legally accurate stories. Green has been...

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - Ballad of the Oysterman

from THE POETICAL WORKS OF OLIVER WENDELL HOLMES: TO MY READERS NAY, blame me not; I might have spared Your patience many a trivial verse, Yet these my earlier welcome shared, So, let the better shield the...

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Theodore Hook - On Punning

Theodore Edward Hook was an English man of letters and composer and briefly a civil servant in Mauritius. He is best known for his practical jokes, particularly the Berners Street hoax in 1810. The world's first...

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Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr. - To a Blank Sheet of Paper

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. was an American physician, poet, and polymath based in Boston. A member of the Fireside Poets, he was acclaimed by his peers as one of the best writers of the day. His most famous prose works...

Algy Pug and 13 more 36 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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