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    Whitman Poetry

    A Story of the Rebellion by Frances Harper

         The treacherous sands had caught our boat,          And held it with a strong embrace &nbs…
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    October 20, 2016

    I Taught Myself to Live Simply by Anna Akhmatova

      I taught myself to live simply and wisely, to look at the sky and pray to God, and to wander long before evening to tire my superfluous worries…
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    October 20, 2016

    Lines on the Mermaid Tavern by John Keats

        Souls of Poets dead and gone,     What Elysium have ye known,     Happy field or mossy cavern, &…
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    October 20, 2016

    A Little Song by Ella Wheeler Wilcox

        Oh, a great world, a fair world, a true world I find it;     A sun that never forgets to rise,   …
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    October 20, 2016

    The Phoenix and the Turtle by William Shakespeare

         Let the bird of loudest lay,     On the sole Arabian tree,     Herald sad and trumpet be, …
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    October 20, 2016

    Dreams by Emily Dickinson

        Let me not mar that perfect dream     By an auroral stain,     But so adjust my daily …
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    October 20, 2016

    Out of the Morning by Emily Dickinson

           Will there really be a morning?     Is there such a thing as day?     Could I see i…
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    October 20, 2016

    After All by Henry Lawson

        The brooding ghosts of Australian night have gone from the bush and town;     My spirit revives in the morning breez…
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    October 20, 2016

    O Me! O Life! by Walt Whitman

    O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; Of the endless trains of the faithless - of cities fill'd with the foolish; Of myself forever re…
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    October 20, 2016
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