Poetry
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Louisa May Alcott – A.B.A.
Like Bunyan’s pilgrim with his pack,Forth went the dreaming youthTo seek, to find, and make his ownWisdom, virtue, and truth.Life…
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Louisa May Alcott – A Little Grey Curl
A little grey curl from my father’s headI find unburned on the hearth,And give it a place in my diary…
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Louisa May Alcott – A Song from the Suds
Song from the Suds was a playful childhood poem composed by Alcott, whose nature leaned towards the serious and solemn.…
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Louisa May Alcott – Despondency
Despondency was written by Ms. Alcott as a young teenager in 1845, when she just wanted a room of her…
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Louisa May Alcott – Faith
Faith was written in Ms. Alcott’s diary in May, 1850, when she was 18 years old, after the family suffered…
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Louisa May Alcott Little Women (poem)
Four little chests all in a row,Dim with dust and worn by time,All fashioned and filled long agoBy children now…
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Louisa May Alcott – My Prayer
Courage and patience, these I ask,Dear Lord, in this my latest strait;For hard I find my ten years’ task,Learning to…
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Louisa May Alcott Our Little Ghost
OFT, in the silence of the night,When the lonely moon rides high,When wintry winds are whistling,And we hear the owl’s…
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Louisa May Alcott – To Louisa May Alcott. By Her Father
When I remember with what buoyant heart,Midst war’s alarms and woes of civil strife,In youthful eagerness thou didst depart,At peril…
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Louisa May Alcott – To Papa
In high Olympus’ sacred shadeA gift Minerva wroughtFor her beloved philosopherImmersed in deepest thought. A shield to guard his aged…
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