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The Russo-American Telegraph Project of 1864-67

In The National Geographic Magazine Vol. 07 - 03. March 1896

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William Healey Dall and National Geographic Society


The National Geographic Magazine, an illustrated monthly, the March Number. It includes the following articles, along with a few miscellaneo…

A Ship, an Isle, a Sickle Moon - Read by PS

In A Ship, an Isle, a Sickle Moon

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James Elroy Flecker


Of all recent poets of his kind, Flecker is the most successful. The classical tradition of poetry has been mocked and mutilated by many of …

I Have Desired To Go - Read by PS

In I Have Desired To Go

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Gerard Manley Hopkins


Gerard Manley Hopkins SJ was an English poet and Jesuit priest, whose posthumous fame established him among the leading Victorian poets. His…

Pied Beauty - Read by PS

In Pied Beauty

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Gerard Manley Hopkins


In the Author's Preface to Poems of Gerard Manley Hopkins, he describes this poem as Curtal-Sonnet "that is they are constructed in pro…

The Haunted Palace - Read by PS

In The Haunted Palace

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Edgar Allan Poe


"The Haunted Palace" originally issued in the Baltimore American Museum for April, 1888, was subsequently embodied in that much ad…

Song: Eternity of Love Protested by Thomas Carew - read by PS

In Song: Eternity of Love Protested

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Thomas Carew


Thomas Carew (pronounced "Carey") (1595 - 1640) was one of the Cavalier poets, a group associated with the unfortunate King Charl…

The Contented Man

In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 058

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G. K. Chesterton


Sixteen short nonfiction works in the public domain, independently chosen by the readers. The human condition is variously explored in Chest…

Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill, Read by PS

In Lines, On Hearing That Lady Byron Was Ill

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George Gordon, Lord Byron


Here is a bitterly sarcastic poem wherein a jilted Lord Byron spits out his distain for his estranged wife, Lady Byron, laying a curse upon …

The House of Night

In A Chant of Mystics, and Other Poems

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Ameen Rihani


This is a volume of poetry by the influential Lebanese American author Ameen Rihani. In these poems, the author playfully introduces the Ame…

Any Woman To A Soldier - Read by PS

In Any Woman To A Soldier

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Grace Ellery Channing


LibriVox volunteers bring you 14 recordings of Any Woman To A Soldier by Grace Ellery Channing.This was the Weekly Poetry project for Novem…

Christy and The Pipers - Read by PS

In Christy and The Pipers

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Jean Mckishnie Blewett


LibriVox volunteers bring you 9 recordings of Christy and The Pipers by Jean McKishnie Blewett.This was the Fortnightly Poetry project for N…

Introduction

In Tudor and Stuart Love Songs

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John Potter Briscoe


The spirit of reform which was developed during the early part of the sixteenth century brought about a desire on the part of young men of m…

''When the Wine-cup at the Lip''

In The Poems of Madison Cawein Vol. 5

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Madison Cawein


This is Volume 5: Poems of Meditation and of Forest and Field of the collected works of Madison Julius Cawein, an American poet from Kentuck…

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