Literature
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The laws of God, the laws of man by A. E. Housman
The laws of God, the laws of man,He may keep that will and can;Now I: let God and man decreeLaws…
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The night is freezing fast by A. E. Housman
An illustration for the story The night is freezing fast by the author A. E. HousmanThe night is freezing fast,To-morrow…
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The Oracles by A. E. Housman
Tis mute, the word they went to hear on high Dodona mountainWhen winds were in the oakenshaws and all the…
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The rain by A. E. Housman
The rain, it streams on stone and hillock,The boot clings to the clay.Since all is done thats due and rightLets…
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Grandmother’s Battle of Bunker Hill as She Saw It From the Belfry by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Grandmother’s Battle of Bunker Hill as She Saw It From the Belfry was published in the anthology, Poems of American…
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Old Ironsides by Oliver Wendell Holmes
Old Ironsides was Holmes’ tribute poem to the three-masted US naval frigate that earned its nickname during the Battle of…
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The Music-Grinders by Oliver Wendell Holmes
The Music-Grinders was retrieved from the anthology, The Humour of America (1909).HERE are three ways in which men takeOne’s money…
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The September Gale by Oliver Wendell Holmes
I’m not a chicken: I have seenFull many a chill September;And though I was a youngster then,That gale I well…
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The Olive Branch by Robert Herrick
Sadly I walk’d within the field,To see what comfort it would yield;And as I went my private way,An olive-branch before…
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To Live Merrily, and to Trust to Good Verses by Robert Herrick
Now is the time for mirth;Nor cheek or tongue be dumb;For with [the] flowery earthThe golden pomp is come. The…
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