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Women's Suffrage: Why the Book is Written

by Carrie Chapman Catt and Nettie Rogers Shuler How the Woman Suffrage Movement Began Why the Book is Written The campaign for woman suffrage in America long since ended. Gone are the days of…

Walt Whitman: Book XXXI, Part 2

Part 2As a strong bird on pinions free, Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving, Such be the thought I'd think of thee America, Such be the recitative I'd bring for thee.The conceits…

Walt Whitman: Book XXXI, Part 3

Part 3Brain of the New World, what a task is thine, To formulate the Modern—out of the peerless grandeur of the modern, Out of thyself, comprising science, to recast poems, churches, art, (…

Walt Whitman: Book XXXI, Part 4

Part 4Sail, sail thy best, ship of Democracy, Of value is thy freight, 'tis not the Present only, The Past is also stored in thee, Thou holdest not the venture of thyself alone, not of the…

Walt Whitman: Book XXXI, Part 5

Part 5Beautiful world of new superber birth that rises to my eyes, Like a limitless golden cloud filling the westernr sky, Emblem of general maternity lifted above all, Sacred shape of the…

Walt Whitman: Book XXXI, Part 6

Part 6Land tolerating all, accepting all, not for the good alone, all good for thee, Land in the realms of God to be a realm unto thyself, Under the rule of God to be a rule unto thyself…

John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book I

Book I Of Mans First Disobedience, and the Fruit Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal tast Brought Death into the World, and all our woe, With loss of EDEN, till one greater Man Restore us,…

John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book X

Book X Thus they in lowliest plight repentant stood Praying, for from the Mercie-seat above Prevenient Grace descending had remov'd The stonie from thir hearts, and made new flesh Regenerat…

John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book V

Book V Now Morn her rosie steps in th' Eastern Clime Advancing, sow'd the Earth with Orient Pearle, When ADAM wak't, so customd, for his sleep Was Aerie light, from pure digestion bred, And…

John Donne: Valediction to His Book

Valediction to His BookI'll tell thee now (dear love) what thou shalt do To anger destiny, as she doth us; How I shall stay, though she eloign me thus, And how posterity shall…