Showing posts with label Classic poetry. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Classic poetry. Show all posts

All Things Bright and Beautiful (Cecil Frances Alexander, 1818-1895)

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All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all. Each littl...

Prospice (Robert Browning, 1812-1889)

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Fear death? -- to feel the fog in my throat, The mist in my face, When the snows begin, and the blasts denote I am nearing the place, The po...

Requiem (Robert Louis Stevenson, 1850-1894)

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Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the ver...

A Fable (Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1803-1882)

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Ralph Waldo Emerson , circa 1857 _________________________________________ The mountain and the squirrel Had a quarrel, And the former calle...

Classic Poetry: Topsy-Turvy World (William B. Rands)

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* Guy Fawkes portrait, unknown artist _________________________________________________________________ If the butterfly courted the bee, -...

Classic Poetry: Wasn't That a Mighty Storm? (Folk Song, Eric von Schmidt, 1931 -2007)

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* ________________________________________________________ "Wasn't That a Mighty Storm?" Performed by D. E. Mainer jefferyb304...

Classic Poetry: The Wind In A Frolic (William Howitt, 1792 - 1879)

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* William Howitt , 18 December 1792 – 3 March 1879) author from Heanor Derbyshire __________________________________________________________...

Classic Poetry: A Hunting We Will Go (Anonymous, Traditional Folksong/Poem)

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___________________________________________________________ The Magic of Living with Wolves ToAddictedtoStayAway ___________________________...

Classic Poetry--Solomon Grundy (Anonymous Nursery Rhyme)

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* ___________________________________________________________________ Solomon Grundy, Born on a Monday, Christened on Tuesday, Married on We...
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Classic Poetry: Who Has Seen the Wind? (Christina Rossetti, 1830 - 1894)

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* Christina Rossetti _____________________________________________________________ Who has seen the wind? Neither I nor you: But when the le...

Classic Poetry: John Gilpin (William Cowper, 1731-1800)

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* William Cowper (1731-1800); frontispiece in H.S. Milford, ed., The Complete Poetical Works of William Cowper, London: Oxford University P...

Classic Poetry: "Eel-Grass" (Edna St. Vincent Millay, 1892-1950)

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* Edna St. Vincent Millay , photographed by Carl Van Vechten, 1933. _______________________________________________________________ No matte...

Alice Pleasance Liddell (1852-1934): The Real Alice in Wonderland and "A Boat Beneath a Sunny Sky" (Lewis Carroll, 1832-1898)

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* 1862 Photograph of seven-year-old Alice Pleasance Liddell (by Charles Dodgson, aka Lewis Carroll) ______________________________________...

Classic Poetry: The Fairies (William Allingham, 1824? - 1889)--Updated Version

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* ___________________________________________________________ Up the airy mountain --- Down the rushy glen, We daren't go a-hunting, ---...

Classic poetry: "The Butterfly's Ball" (William Roscoe, 1753-1831)

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* The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast , Illustrated by R. M. Ballantyne, 1825-1894 __________________________________...

Classic Poetry: Two Immigration Poems, Two Different Viewpoints

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* Emma Lazarus ___________________________________________________________________ A frequent impression is that nineteenth-century America...

Classic Poetry--"On a Honey Bee" (Philip Freneau, 1752-1832)

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* Philip Freneau _______________________________________________________________ Thou born to sip the lake or spring, Or quaff the waters o...

Classic Poetry: "My Life had stood -- a Loaded Gun --" (Emily Dickinson, 1830-1886)

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* From the daguerreotype taken at Mount Holyoke, December 1846 or early 1847. It is the only authenticated portrait of Emily Dickinson late...