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The Song Of The Chattahoochee
2023-12-06by Sidney Lanier Out of the hills of Habersham, Down the valleys of Hall, I hurry amain to reach the plain, Run the rapid and leap the fall, Split at ...
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the sonnet-ballad
2023-12-06by Gwendolyn Brooks Oh mother, mother, where is happiness? They took my lover's tallness off to war, Left me lamenting. Now I cannot guess What I ...
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The Soul unto itself (683)
2023-12-06by Emily Dickinson The Soul unto itself Is an imperial friend Or the most agonizing Spy An Enemy - could send Secure against its own No treason it can...
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The Spacious Firmament on high
2023-12-06by Joseph Addison The Spacious Firmament on high, With all the blue Ethereal Sky, And spangled Heav'ns, a Shining Frame, Their great Original proc...
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The Spirit of the Staircase
2023-12-06by Lavinia Greenlaw In our game of flight, half-way down was as near mid-air as it got: a point of no return we'd fling ourselves at over and over...
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The Splendor Falls
2023-12-06by Lord Alfred Tennyson The splendor falls on castle walls And snowy summits old in story; The long light shakes across the lakes, And the wild catara...
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The Stalin Epigram
2023-12-06by Osip Mandelstam (Translated by W. S. Merwin) Our lives no longer feel ground under them. At ten paces you can't hear our words. But whenever th...
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The Starlings
2023-12-06by Jesper Svenbro (Translated by John Matthias and Lars-Hakan Svensson) Late one afternoon in October I hear them for the first time: loud-voiced pala...
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The Storm
2023-12-06by Theodore Roethke 1 Against the stone breakwater, Only an ominous lapping, While the wind whines overhead, Coming down from the mountain, Whistling ...
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The Subalterns
2023-12-06by Thomas Hardy I "Poor wanderer," said the leaden sky, "I fain would lighten thee, But there are laws in force on high Which say it mu...