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Selected poems and excerpts, part 1

In Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, volume 07

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George Gordon, Lord Byron


The Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern, is a work of enormous proportions. Setting out with the simple goal of offer…

She Came and Went

In Miscellaneous Poems

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James Russell Lowell


This is the second part of James Russell Lowell's collected poems: the Miscellaneous Poems. This series of poems covers, as the title implie…

September - Read by LLW

In September

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Michael Field


Michael Field was a pseudonym used for the poetry and verse drama of Katharine Harris Bradley (27 October 1846 – 26 September 1914) and her …

The Old Maid - Read by LLW

In The Old Maid (Shorter)

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Dora Sigerson Shorter


Dora Maria Sigerson Shorter was an Irish poet and sculptor, who after her marriage in 1895 wrote under the name Dora Sigerson Shorter.She wa…

In Lemuria

In Ebony and Crystal

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Clark Ashton Smith


As stated in L'Alouette: A Magazine of Verse, "Ebony and Crystal is an artist's intrepid repudiation of the world of trolleys and cash-…

To The Moon - Read by LLW

In To The Moon

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Giacomo Leopardi


Giacomo Leopardi is a great name in Italy among philosophers and poets, but is quite unknown in this country, and Mr. Townsend has the honor…

My Last Duchess - Read by LLW

In My Last Duchess

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Robert Browning


NOTES: "My Last Duchess" puts in the mouth of a Duke of Ferrara, a typical husband and art patron of the Renaissance, a desc…

Afternoon in School - the last lesson - Read by LLW

In Afternoon in School - the last lesson

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D. H. Lawrence


David Herbert Lawrence was an English novelist, poet, playwright, essayist, literary critic and painter. His collected works represent, amon…

Sun Shadows - Read by LLW

In Sun Shadows

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Ella Wheeler Wilcox


Ella Wheeler Wilcox was an American author and poet. Her best-known work was Poems of Passion. This Weekly Poem is taken from her collection…

The Song of the Shirt

In The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood

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Thomas Hood


This is a collection of Thomas Hood's poems. Hood was an eminent British poet, regarded in particular for his humorous poetry, as well as hi…

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