Poetry
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The Court of Love by Geoffrey Chaucer
This poem was Geoffrey Chaucer’s first writing of consequence, composed at eighteen while he was studying at Cambridge (1346). The…
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Envoi by Robert W. Chambers
I. When shadows pass across the grassAnd April breezes stir the sedge,Along the brimming river’s edgeI trail my line for…
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Arcadian Winter by Willa Cather
WOE is me to tell it thee,Winter winds in Arcady!Scattered is thy flock and fledFrom the glades where once it…
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Evening Song by Willa Cather
This revised verison of Evening Song was published in McClure’s Magazine, August 1907. It was originally published in Cather’s collection,…
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Grandmither, think not I forget by Willa Cather
Published in April Twilights and Other Poems, 1923.Grandmither, think not I forget, when I come back to town,An’ wander the…
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London Roses by Willa Cather
POWSES, Rowses! Penny a bunch!” they tell you–Slattern girls in Trafalgar, eager to sell you.Roses, roses, red in the Kensington…
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Macon Prairie by Willa Cather
Published in Cather’s collection, April Twilights and other Poems, 1923.She held me for a night against her bosom,The aunt who…
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Paradox by Willa Cather
I KNEW them both upon Miranda’s isle,Which is of youth a sea-bound seigniory:Misshapen Caliban, so seeming vile,And Ariel, proud prince…
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Poppies On Ludlow Castle by Willa Cather
Willa Cather published Poppies on Ludlow Castle in her collection, April Twilights in 1903. THROUGH halls of vanished pleasure,And hold…
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Prairie Spring by Willa Cather
From Cather’s collection, April Twilights, published in 1923.Evening and the flat land,Rich and somber and always silent;The miles of fresh-plowed…
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