Literature
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The Boston Evening Transcript by T.S. Eliot
The readers of the Boston Evening TranscriptSway in the wind like a field of ripe corn.When evening quickens faintly in…
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The Hippopotamus by T.S. Eliot
Similiter et omnes revereantur Diaconos, utmandatum Jesu Christi; et Episcopum, ut JesumChristum, existentem filium Patris; Presbyterosautem, ut concilium Dei et…
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The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock by T.S. Eliot
The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock was Eliot’s first published poem in 1915. It was originally titled, Prufrock Among…
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The Waste Land by T.S. Eliot
The Waste Land (1922) was Eliot’s cerebral, sparse, and haunting vision of society after the First World War. Eliot’s poem…
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Whispers of Immortality by T.S. Eliot
Webster was much possessed by deathAnd saw the skull beneath the skin;And breastless creatures under groundLeaned backward with a lipless…
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A Warm Day in Winter by Paul Laurence Dunbar
A Warm Day in Winter is a formative example of Dunbar’s dialect verses.“Sunshine on de medders,Greenness on de way;Dat ‘s…
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Dream Song I by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Long years ago, within a distant clime,Ere Love had touched me with his wand sublime,I dreamed of one to make…
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Dream Song II by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Pray, what can dreams availTo make love or to mar?The child within the cradle railLies dreaming of the star.But is…
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Encouragement by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Dunbar was particularly recognized for his dialect poems.Who dat knockin’ at de do’?Why, Ike Johnson,—yes, fu’ sho!Come in, Ike. I…
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Mortality by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Ashes to ashes, dust unto dust,What of his loving, what of his lust?What of his passion, what of his pain?What…
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