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Wallace Stevens
In Harmonium
This is the first edition of Stevens's first book, with poetry written between 1914 and 1923. A later edition was printed with the inclusion…
Props
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Carl Sandburg
In Slabs of the Sunburnt West
Thirty-two poems about life in the American Midwest, focusing on the city of Chicago, Illinois. Summary by Matt Pierard
Dusk
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F. S. Flint
In Otherworld: Cadences
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…
The Return of Jeanne D'arc
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Grace H. Conkling
In Wilderness Songs
This second volume of verse by Grace Hazard Conkling -- American poet, author and musician -- ranges in theme from close observations of the…
26 - Appendix B
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Jefferson Davis
In The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government, Volume 1a
The Rise and Fall of the Confederate Government (1881) is written by Jefferson Davis, former President of the Confederate States of America …
Free Will
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Alice Meynell
In A Father of Women and Other Poems
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
A Birthday
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Louis Untermeyer
In Challenge
Louis Untermeyer introduced may students to poetry through his many collections that he edited. His own poetry ranges from inspirational to…
The Letters
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Alfred, Lord Tennyson
In Maud, and Other Poems
A collection of poems by Alfred, Lord Tennyson, his first book of poetry after having become poet laureate in 1850. Among the "other po…
A Vanquished Man
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Alice Meynell
In Ceres’ Runaway & Other Essays
Alice Meynell was an English essayist, critic, and poet who was also a leading suffragist, serving as vice-president of the Women Writers' S…
LUI ET ELLE
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D. H. Lawrence
In Tortoises
Tortoises is a collection of six poems by D.H. Lawrence inspired by his observation of tortoises going about their business, wild in the la…
Phaon
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Sappho
In The Poems of Sappho: An Interpretative Rendition into English
Who shall strike the wax of mystery from those priceless amphoræ, and give to the unsophisticated nostrils of the average reader the r…
Chapter XIX
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Grace Livingston Hill
In The Witness
Paul Cortland seems to have it all as a popular, successful athlete and college student. Tragedy leads him to find peace through the faith …
The Perfect Year
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Elizabeth Jordan
In Different Girls
This is a collection of the best short stories about girls published in Harper's Magazine from 1895 to 1906. The girls in these stories are …
To Monica Thought Dying
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Francis Thompson
In Selected Poems of Francis Thompson
Francis Thompson, an English poet and author, is best known for his poem "Hound of Heaven," included in this selection of his poe…
Unto Us a Child Is Born
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F. S. Flint
In In the Net of the Stars
English author Frank Stuart Flint was a prominent poet in the Imagist movement, along with Ezra Pound and T E. Hulme. Flint abandoned school…
Ave atque Vale
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Helen Hay Whitney
In Sonnets and Songs
This is a collection of sonnets and songs by American poet, writer, racehorse owner/breeder, socialite, and philanthropist Helen Hay Whitney…
HER FIANCÉ
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In Unaddressed Letters
“I had a friend who loved me;” but he has gone, and the “great gulf” is between us. After his death, I received a packet of manuscript with …
An Early Moonset
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Thomas Fleming Day
In Songs of Sea and Sail
Thomas Fleming Day was an American sailboat designer and sailboat racer. He was the founding editor of Rudder, a monthly magazine about boat…
THE CONQUEROR
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Maurice Baring
In Orpheus in Mayfair and Other Stories and Sketches
In this urbane collection of short stories by Maurice Baring, characters ranging from legendary figures to schoolboys find themselves in ste…
Introduction
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Rainer Maria Rilke
In Poems
A concise collection of poems translated from the great German poet Rilke into formal English verse. Although the translation may be freer t…