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Walt Whitman: Song of the Exposition, Part 9

Part 9And thou, the Emblem waving over all! Delicate beauty, a word to thee, (it may be salutary,) Remember thou hast not always been as here to-day so comfortably ensovereign'd, In other…

Alfred Lord Tennyson: The Grasshopper

The GrasshopperI Voice of the summerwind, Joy of the summerplain, Life of the summerhours, Carol clearly, bound along. No Tithon thou as poets feign (Shame fall 'em…

Christina Rossetti: Memory

MemoryII nursed it in my bosom while it lived, I hid it in my heart when it was dead; In joy I sat alone, even so I grieved Alone and nothing said.I shut the door to face the naked…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The River

The RiverAnd I behold once more My old familiar haunts; here the blue river, The same blue wonder that my infant eye Admired, sage doubting whence the traveller came,— Whence brought his…

Robert Graves: Escape

Escape(August 6, 1916.—Officer previously reported died of wounds, now reported wounded: Graves, Captain R., Royal Welch Fusiliers.) ... But I was dead, an hour or more. I woke when I'd…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: April 30, 1805

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark April 29, 1805May 1, 1805April 30, 1805 Tuesday April 30th 1805. Set out at sunrise. the wind blew hard all last night, and continued to blow…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: June 12, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark June 11, 1806June 13, 1806June 12, 1806 Thursday June 12th 1806. All our hunters except Gibson returned about noon; none of them had killed…

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: The Posie

by Robert Burns What Can A Young Lassie Do Wi'...On Glenriddell's Fox Breaking His ChainThe Posie O luve will venture in where it daur na weel be seen, O luve will venture in…