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Walt Whitman: Not Meagre, Latent Boughs Alone

Not Meagre, Latent Boughs AloneNot meagre, latent boughs alone, O songs! (scaly and bare, like eagles' talons,) But haply for some sunny day (who knows?) some future spring, some…

Amy Lowell: VII

VIIOver the slate roof tall clouds, like ships of the line, pass along the sky. The glass-houses glitter splotchily, for many of their lights are broken. Roses bloom, fiery cinders quenching…

Selah TUTHILL, Congress, NY (1771-1821)

TUTHILL Selah , a Representative from New York; born in Blooming Grove, Orange County, N.Y., October 26, 1771; attended public and private schools; member of the State assembly from Ulster County…

Walt Whitman: Lo, Victress on the Peaks

Lo, Victress on the PeaksLo, Victress on the peaks, Where thou with mighty brow regarding the world, (The world O Libertad, that vainly conspired against thee,) Out of its countless…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Garden

The GardenMany things the garden shows, And pleased I stray From tree to tree Watching the white pear-bloom, Bee-infested quince or plum. I could walk days, years, away Till the slow ripening…

Christina Rossetti: Within the Veil

Within the Veil1865She holds a lily in her hand, Where long ranks of Angels stand, A silver lily for her wand.All her hair falls sweeping down; Her hair that is a golden brown, A crown…

Witter Bynner: God's Acre

God's AcreWitter BynnerBecause we felt there could not be A mowing in reality So white and feathery-blown and gay With blossoms of wild caraway, I said to Celia, "Let us trace The secret of…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Bee

by EmilyDickinsonPurple CloverXVIThe Bee The Bee Like trains of cars on tracks of plush I hear the level bee: A jar across the flowers goes, Their velvet masonry Withstands until the…

Josephine Dodge Daskam: The Prince

The PrinceJosephine Dodge DaskamMy heart it was a cup of gold That at his lip did long to lie, But he hath drunk the red wine down, And tossed the goblet by.My heart it was a floating bird…