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The Park by Ralph Waldo Emerson

    The prosperous and beautiful     To me seem no…
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October 20, 2016

Marlena by Herman Melville

    Far off in the sea is Marlena,     A land of s…
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October 20, 2016

Blue-Butterfly Day by Robert Frost

It is blue-butterfly day here in spring, And with these sky-flakes down in flurry on flurr…
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October 20, 2016

I Write About the Butterfly by Louisa May Alcott

         "I write about the butterfly,     &n…
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October 20, 2016

Field Path by John Clare

    The beams in blossom with their spots of jet     Smelt s…
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October 20, 2016

Love’s Lantern by Alfred Joyce Kilmer

     Because the road was steep and long     &nbsp…
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October 20, 2016

A Winter Night by Sara Teasdale

My window-pane is starred with frost, The world is bitter cold to-night, The moon is cruel…
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October 20, 2016

La Mer by Oscar Wilde

A white mist drifts across the shrouds,     A wild moon in this wintry…
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October 20, 2016

A Christmas Carol by Christina Georgina Rossetti

In the bleak mid-winter     Frosty wind made moan,    &…
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October 20, 2016
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