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Pharsalia Dramatic Episodes of the Civil WarsPharsalia; Dramatic Episodes of the Civil WarsOriginally written in Latin, approximately A.D. 61-65, by the Roman poet Lucan, and probably left unfinished upon his death in A.D. 65. Although the work has been generally known through most of history as the "Pharsalia", modern scholarship...
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Rivers to the SeaRivers to the SeaWhy am I crying after love With youth, a singing voice and eyes To take earth's wonder with surprise? Why have I put off my pride, Why am I unsatisfied, I for whom the pensive night Binds her cloudy hair with...
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Twilight StoriesTwilight Stories One hundred years' and one ago, in Boston, at ten of the clock one April night, a church steeple had been climbed and a lantern hung out. At ten, the same night, in mid-river of the Charles, oarsmen two, with passenger silent...
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The Chinese Nightingale, and Other PoemsThe Chinese Nightingale, and Other Poems[Note on text: Italicized words or phrases capitalized. Italicized stanzas are indented 5 spaces. Some errors have been corrected. Lines longer than 78 characters are broken according to metre, and the continuation is indented two spaces.] Where Is the...
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Songs of Travel, and Other VersesSongs of Travel, and Other VersesThe following collection of verses, written at various times and places, principally after the authors final departure from England in 1887, was sent home by him for publication some months before his death. He had tried them in several...
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The Breitmann BalladsThe Breitmann BalladsPlease take a look at the important information in this header. We encourage you to keep this file on your own disk, keeping an electronic path open for the next readers. Do not remove this. This etext was created by Geoffrey Kidd...
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UnderwoodsUnderwoodsThere are men and classes of men that stand above the common herd: the soldier, the sailor and the shepherd not unfrequently; the artist rarely; rarely still, the clergyman; the physician almost as a rule. He is the flower (such as it is) of...
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BalladsBalladsOri, my brother in the island mode, In every tongue and meaning much my friend, This story of your country and your clan, In your loved house, your too much honoured guest, I made in English. Take it, being done; And let me sign...
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Helen of Troy, and Other PoemsHelen of Troy, and Other Poems[Note on text: Italicized stanzas are indented 5 spaces. Italicized words or phrases are capitalized. Lines longer than 78 characters are broken, and the continuation is indented two spaces. Some obvious errors may be corrected.] Love Songs Song The...
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L'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and LycidasL'Allegro, Il Penseroso, Comus, and LycidasHENCE, loathed Melancholy, Of Cerberus and blackest Midnight born In Stygian cave forlorn 'Mongst horrid shapes, and shrieks, and sights unholy! Find out some uncouth cell, Where brooding Darkness spreads his jealous wings, And the night-raven sings; There, under...
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Jerusalem DeliveredJerusalem Delivered THE ARGUMENT. God sends his angel to Tortosa down, Godfrey unites the Christian Peers and Knights; And all the Lords and Princes of renown Choose him their Duke, to rule the wares and fights. He mustereth all his host, whose number known,...
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In Flanders Fields, and Other PoemsIn Flanders Fields, and Other Poems John McCrae, physician, soldier, and poet, died in France a Lieutenant-Colonel with the Canadian forces. The poem which gives this collection of his lovely verse its name has been extensively reprinted, and received with unusual enthusiasm. The volume...
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Hesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and HomericaHesiod, the Homeric Hymns, and Homerica The early Greek epicthat is, poetry as a natural and popular, and not (as it became later) an artificial and academic literary formpassed through the usual three phases, of development, of maturity, and of decline. No fragments which...
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A Heap o' Livin'A Heap o' Livin'When you get to know a fellow, know his joys and know his cares, When you've come to understand him and the burdens that he bears, When you've learned the fight he's making and the troubles in his way, Then you...
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Verses 1889-1896Verses 1889-1896 [In India, the swastika is an ancient symbol of good fortune. Kipling frequently used the swastika in this context.] ......Buy Now (To Read More)Product details Ebook Number: 323 Author: Kipling, Rudyard Release Date: Jun 29, 2008 Format: eBook Language: English
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The Culprit Fay, and Other PoemsThe Culprit Fay, and Other PoemsMy visual orbs are purged from film, and lo! Instead of Ansters turnip-bearing vales I see old fairy lands miraculous show! Her trees of tinsel kissed by freakish gales, Her Ouphs that, cloaked in leaf-gold, skim the breeze, And...
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Rhymes of a Red Cross ManRhymes of a Red Cross Man Robert William Service was born 16 January 1874 in Preston, England, but also lived in Scotland before emigrating to Canada in 1894. Service went to the Yukon Territory in 1904 as a bank clerk, and became famous for...
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Children of the NightChildren of the Night CONTENTS The Children of the Night Three Quatrains The World An Old Story Ballade of a Ship Ballade by the Fire Ballade of Broken Flutes Ballade of Dead Friends Her Eyes Two Men Villanelle of Change John Evereldown Luke Havergal...
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Rhymes of a Rolling StoneRhymes of a Rolling Stone CONTENTS RHYMES OF A ROLLING STONE A Rolling Stone The Soldier of Fortune The Gramaphone at Fond-Du-Lac The Land of Beyond Sunshine The Idealist Athabaska Dick Cheer The Return The Junior God The Nostomaniac Ambition To Sunnydale The Blind...
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The Ballad of Reading GaolThe Ballad of Reading Gaol You provide, in accordance with paragraph 1.F.3, a full refund of any money paid for a work or a replacement copy, if a defect in the electronic work is discovered and reported to you within 90 days of receipt...
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