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ÆSOP'S FABLES
V. S. VERNON JONES ÆSOP'S FABLES
  • English
  • 38350 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
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Aesop's Fables or the Aesopica is a collection of fables credited to Aesop, a slave and story-teller believed to have lived in ancient Greece between 620 and 560 BCE. Of diverse origins, the stories associated with Aesop's name have descended to modern times through a numbe... Read more...

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Wordsworth
F. W. H. Myers Wordsworth
  • English
  • 52885 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
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Frederic William Henry Myers (6 February 1843, in Keswick, Cumberland – 17 January 1901, in Rome) was a poet, classicist, philologist, and a founder of the Society for Psychical Research.[1] Myers' work on psychical research and his ideas about a "subliminal self" have not ... Read more...

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English Poems
Richard Le Gallienne English Poems
  • English
  • 11828 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
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Richard Le Gallienne (20 January 1866 – 15 September 1947) was an English author and poet. The American actress Eva Le Gallienne (1899–1991) was his daughter, by his second marriage.

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THE VERSE-BOOK OF A HOMELY WOMAN
FAY INCHFAWN, ELIZABETH REBECCA WARD THE VERSE-BOOK OF A HOMELY WOMAN
  • English
  • 7839 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
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Fay Inchfawn Fay Inchfawn was the pen name of Mrs Elizabeth Rebecca Ward. Elizabeth was born in England on 2nd December 1880 and died on 16th April 1978.

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Occasional Poems Part 3 From Volume IV., The Works of Whittier: Personal Poems
John Greenleaf Whittier Occasional Poems Part 3 From Volume IV., The Works of Whittier: Personal Poems
  • English
  • 10567 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
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John Greenleaf Whittier (December 17, 1807 – September 7, 1892) was an influential American Quaker poet and ardent advocate of the abolition of slavery in the United States. He is usually listed as one of the Fireside Poets. Whittier was strongly influenced by the Scottish ... Read more...

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The Home Book of Verse, Volume 4
Burton Egbert Stevenson The Home Book of Verse, Volume 4
  • English
  • 56747 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
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Burton Egbert Stevenson (1872–1962) was an American author, anthologist, and librarian.[1] He was born at Chillicothe, Ohio on 9 November 1872,[2] and attended Princeton University 1890–1893.[3] He married Elizabeth Shepard Butler (1869–1960) in 1895.[3] He died 13 May 1962... Read more...

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The Rose-Jar
Thomas S. (Thomas Samuel) Jones The Rose-Jar
  • English
  • 4190 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
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The poem The Rose Jar by Thomas S. Jones is a rare delicacy and fineness work that has gathered to itself a discriminating group of readers.

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The Silk-Hat Soldier
Richard le Gallienne The Silk-Hat Soldier

And Other Poems in War Time

  • English
  • 1741 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
  • 2
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Is price too vast--yet, Belgium, hadst thou sold Thyself, O then had fled from out the earth Honour for ever, and left only Gold.

Nor diest thou--for soon shalt thou awake, And, lifted high on our victorious shields, Watch the new sunrise driving for your sons The hat... Read more...

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The Poetics
Mr. Aristotle The Poetics
  • English
  • 19014 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
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In the tenth book of the Republic, when Plato has completed his final burning denunciation of Poetry, the false Siren, the imitator of things which themselves are shadows, the ally of all that is low and weak in the soul against that which is high and strong, who makes us f... Read more...

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The Stars in the Pool A Prose Poem for Lovers
Edna Kingsley Wallace The Stars in the Pool A Prose Poem for Lovers
  • English
  • 11129 Words
  • Ages 18 and up
  • 2
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THE STARS IN THE POOL A Prose Poem for Lovers BY EDNA KINGSLEY WALLACE Author of "Feelings and Things," "Wonderings and Other Things"

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