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Renascence and Other Poems

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Edna St. Vincent Millay

The following is a recording of the first volume of poetry published by Edna St. Vincent Millay. When the author had graduated from high sch…

The Ballad of Reading Gaol, (version 2)

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Oscar Wilde

In 1895, Oscar Wilde was sentenced to 2 years of hard labor for acts of ‘gross indecency’. During his time at Reading Gaol, he witnessed a r…

Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins

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Robert Bridges

Gerard Manley Hopkins (1844–89) was an English poet, educated at Oxford. Entering the Roman Catholic Church in 1866 and the Jesuit novitiate…

Essay 01 - History

In Essays, First Series

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Ralph Waldo Emerson

“We live in succession, in division, in parts, in particles. Meantime within man is the soul of the whole; the wise silence; the universal b…

1910-04-22 Mark Twain (obituary)

In Historical Newspaper Articles, Volume 1

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The New York Times

Public Domain newspaper articles in the US span a period of nearly two and a half centuries. Subjects, styles, period, publisher, and length…

Las zorras a la orilla del Río Meandro

In Las Fábulas de Esopo, Vol. 1

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Aesop

Las clásicas Fábulas de Esopo han sido traducidas a todos idiomas por cientos de años. Las fábulas, en forma de …