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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 &nbsโ€ฆ
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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 worriesโ€ฆ
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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, &โ€ฆ
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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,  &nbspโ€ฆ
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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, โ€ฆ
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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 โ€ฆ
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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 iโ€ฆ
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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 breezโ€ฆ
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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 reโ€ฆ
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October 20, 2016
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