Literature
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From Omar Khayyam by Edward FitzGerald
From Omar Khayyam was published in the anthology, The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900), compiled by the author Sir…
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Old Song by Edward FitzGerald
Old Song was published in the anthology, The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900), compiled by the author Sir Arthur…
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I Wish I Was in Dixie by Daniel Decatur Emmett
I Wish I Was in Dixie or simply, Dixie became the Confederate’s anthem during the American Civil War, a song…
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Bacchus by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Bacchus was published in the anthology, The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900), compiled by the author Sir Arthur Quiller-Couch.…
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Boston by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Published in the collection, Poems of American Patriotism, chosen by Brander Matthews (1922).[Sidenote: Dec. 16, 1773] This poem was read…
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Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Concord Hymn, sometimes simply referred to as Hymn, references the famed, “shot heard round the world” marking the beginning of…
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Each and All by Ralph Waldo Emerson
“I yielded myself to the perfect whole.” What a lovely find in Emerson’s poetry collection, Poems, Household Edition, published in…
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Give All to Love by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Give All to Love was published in the anthology, The Oxford Book of English Verse (1900), compiled by the author…
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Good-Bye by Ralph Waldo Emerson
From Emerson’s collection, Poems, Household Edition, published in 1867.Good-bye, proud world! I’m going home:Thou art not my friend, and I’m…
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The Problem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
I like a church; I like a cowl;I love a prophet of the soul;And on my heart monastic aislesFall like…
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