Literature
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The Poet and the Baby by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Yevgraf Sorokin, Spanish Romani family, 1892How’s a man to write a sonnet, can you tell,—How’s he going to weave the…
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Treat Me Nice by Paul Laurence Dunbar
Treat me nice, Miss Mandy Jane,Treat me nice.Dough my love has tu’ned my brain,Treat me nice.I ain’t done a t’ing…
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The Guards Came Through by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
The Guards Came Through was published in the anthology, A Treasury of War Poems (1914-1919).EN of the Twenty-firstUp by the…
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Ah, Dans Ces Mornes Séjours Les Jamais Sont Les Toujours by Ernest Dowson
Ah, Dans Ces Mornes Séjours Les Jamais Sont Les Toujours (translation: In these gloomy sojourns, nevers are evermore) was published…
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April Love by Ernest Dowson
April Love was published in The Poems and Prose of Ernest Dowson in 1919. We have walked in Love’s land…
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Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae by Ernest Dowson
Non Sum Qualis Eram Bonae Sub Regno Cynarae (translation: “I am not as I was under good Cynara’s reign”) (1894),…
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Vitae Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam by Ernest Dowson
Vita Summa Brevis Spem Nos Vetat Incohare Longam (translation: “They are not long, the weeping and the laughter”) (1896) is…
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A Hymn to God the Father by John Donne
Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,Which is my sin, though it were done before?Wilt thou forgive that sin…
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Air and Angels by John Donne
TWICE or thrice had I loved thee,Before I knew thy face or name;So in a voice, so in a shapeless…
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A Jet Ring Sent by John Donne
THOU art not so black as my heart,Nor half so brittle as her heart, thou art;What would’st thou say? shall…
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