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Allen Ginsberg: poems, essays, and short stories Poeticous

WEB'''Allen Ginsberg''' was born on June 3, 1926, in Newark, New Jersey. The son of Louis and Naomi Ginsberg, two Jewish members of the New York literary counter-culture of the …

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To a Lady on Her Coming to North-America With Her Son, for

WEBINDULGENT muse! my grov’ling m… And fill my bosom with celestial f… See from Jamaica’s fervid shore s… Like the fair mother of the bloomi… When from above the …

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Sick, by Shel Silverstein poems, essays, and short

WEBMy nose is cold, my toes are numb, I have a sliver in my thumb. My neck is stiff, my spine is weak, I hardly whisper when I speak. My tongue is filling up my mouth, I think my hair is …

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The Tell-Tale Heart, by Edgar Allan Poe

WEBThe old man’s hour had come! With a loud yell, I threw open the lantern and leaped into the room. He shrieked once—once only. In an instant I dragged him to the floor, and pulled …

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Life Is Fine, by Langston Hughes

WEBSo since I’m still here livin’, I guess I will live on. I could’ve died for love—. But for livin’ I was born. Though you may hear me holler, And you may see me cry—. I’ll be dogged, sweet …

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Sic Vita, by Henry David Thoreau

WEBIn a bare cup. Some tender buds were left upon my stem. In mimicry of life, But ah! the children will not know, Till time has withered them, The woe. With which they’re rife. But …

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Art and Heart, by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

WEBElla Wheeler Wilcox. Art and Heart. Though critics may bow to art, and I am its own true lover, It is not art, but heart, which wins the wide world over. Though smooth be the …

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A Farewel to America to Mrs. S. W.

WEBAdieu, New—England’s smiling mead… Adieu, the flow’ry plain: I leave thine op’ning charms, O s… And tempt the roaring main. II.

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William Carlos Williams: poems, essays, and short stories

WEB'''William Carlos Williams''' (September 17, 1883 – March 4, 1963) was an American poet closely associated with modernism and Imagism. He was also a pediatrician and general …

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Gary Oliver: poems, essays, and short stories Poeticous

WEBGary Oliver is a writer, poet, and performer born in North Staffordshire in 1966. He spent much of his early years as a club MC and hip-hop rapper before pursuing higher …

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Curing A Cold, by Mark Twain

WEBCuring A Cold. It is a good thing, perhaps, to write for the amusement of the public, but it is a far higher and nobler thing to write for their instruction, their profit, their actual and …

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O. Henry: poems, essays, and short stories Poeticous

WEBWilliam Sydney Porter (September 11, 1862– June 5, 1910), known by his pen name O. Henry, was an American short story writer. His stories are known for their surprise …

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Ellen West, by Frank Bidart

WEBEllen West. I love sweets,—. heaven. would be dying on a bed of vanilla ice cream But my true self. is thin, all profile. and effortless gestures, the sort of blond. elegant girl whose. …

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Report on Experience, by Edmund Blunden

WEBReport on Experience. I have been young, and now am not too old; And I have seen the righteous forsaken, His health, his honour and his quality taken. This is not what we …

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The Sea, by Bryan Procter poems, essays, and short

WEBOn the fierce, foaming, bursting tide, When every mad wave drowns the moon. Or whistles aloft his tempest tune, And tells how goeth the world below, And why the sou’west blasts …

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My Mother, by Ann Taylor poems, essays, and short stories

WEBAnd when I see thee hang thy head, 'Twill be my turn to watch thy bed, And tears of sweet affection shed, My Mother. For God, who lives above the skies, Would look with …

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The Mother's Son, by Rudyard Kipling

WEBThe Mother's Son. And he is My Mother’s Son. And you’re not allowed to shave. More than a man could bear. Fuller than it could hold. Than any man could give. Longer than he …

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