POETRY AND LITERATURE 1
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A selection of the best poems of English literature.
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A Now Word in Season
227 pages of religious poetry.
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Abstrusion
By Candice James
Words of Love - A collection of 77 poems filled with brilliant imagery, dedicated solely to the extremes of love and all the emotions in between. A must read for all deep lovers.
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Bathtub Fantasies-Bedtime Journeys
Religious and spiritual poetry.
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The reason I called this book, my first book, Confessions Of A Girl, is that this book will take you on a
journey into my mind and see what it is that I feel, or have felt at the time of writing that particular piece. It
is my way of confessing my wrong doings on paper without saying specifically what I did, as well as
releasing some built up anger for one person in particular.
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When it comes down to everything the emotions expressed by Shane Diamond can be a mix anger emotions and confused emotions and any other emotions
that gets conjured up inside of him.
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Essays in The Art of Writing
by ROBERT LOUIS STEVENSON
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For All Eternity
By: Lauren Farley
All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely players: they have their exits and their entrances; and one man
in his time plays many parts
William Shakespeare
How true the words of the Bard rang to my ears, as I treaded the carpet of my room, imbedding deeper grooves every
minute. My mind was racing too. I myself have played many parts over my eternal life. A daughter, a martyr, a student, an envoy
of ill tidings, a savior to one, an enemy to another, and a friend to the unfriendly, all been a mask for me to hide my true
identity, one that would leave me mentally scared as a Devil Reincarnate, a soulless person.
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Feelings, Thoughts & Emotions
by By David Samuel
The greatest beauty often comes out of the greatest pain. Music, art, expressions of Love, the list is endless. These writings came to me spontaneously in times of great suffering
over a period of many years of spiritual seeking. Some I wrote, others seemed to be someone speaking to me. When I read my own writing, I am not sure, but I do know that these intensely
comforting thoughts had a voice of their own. When I found great pain, I also touched a spiritual union that filled me with joy and Love of a nature far greater than any woman could provide.
Such is the paradox of the mystical life.
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Hamlet
By: William Shakespeare
Hamlet is a tragedy by William Shakespeare and is one of his best-known and most quoted plays. It was written at an uncertain date between 1600 and the summer of 1602. Hamlet is one of the
world's most famous literary works, and has been translated into every major living language.
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Helen of Troy
By: Andrew Lang
All day within the palace of the King
In Lacedaemon, was there revelry,
Since Menelaus with the dawn did spring
Forth from his carven couch, and, climbing high
The tower of outlook, gazed along the dry
White road that runs to Pylos through the plain,
And mark'd thin clouds of dust against the sky,
And gleaming bronze, and robes of purple stain.
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Inspirations and Quotations
By: Anonymous
WRITINGS IN RHYME III
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LEAVES OF GRASS
By Walt Whitman
Leaves of Grass (1855) is a poetry collection by the American poet Walt Whitman. Among the poems in the collection are "Song of Myself,"
"I Sing the Body Electric," "Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking," and in later editions, Whitman's elegy to the assassinated President Abraham Lincoln,
"When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd." Whitman spent his entire life writing Leaves of Grass,[1] revising it in several editions until his death.
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Lilacs Growing on a Barbed Wire Fence
By Chuck Warren
Sometimes you hope what you say will waft on the breeze like the scent of freshly cut flowers, and sometimes the only way to make your point is with the all the finesse of a sharpened steel spike.
Lilacs Growing on a Barbed-Wire Fence presents a little of both; filled with agony, love and laughter, this book is guaranteed to touch the reader's heart.
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The Complete Works of Mark Twain. (zip file)
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Michael Angelo
By H.W. Longfellow
These pages should meet with any readers inclined, like their writer, to seek and to admire the veiled truth and solemn beauty of the eldertime,
they will add their humble testimony to the fact, that whatever be the purpose and tendencies of the time we live in, we are not all unmindful of
the better part of our inheritance in this world.
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Ode To The Fanatical Golfer
A sports humor ebook focusing on golf comedy/fanaticism.
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Onyamarks1972 the Lost Book: Resurrected
By Kenneth Francis Dewey
The volume onyamarks: a collection of thoughts and drawings by Kenneth Francis Dewey
has its origins in Brooklyn, New York. The title comes from Brooklynize slang, which is the derivative
of On-Your-Marks-Get-Set-Go. It is a volume of poems, stories and drawings by a Brooklynite who
sprinted from Brooklyn to California in the sixties. It is a sketch pad that attempts to record the travels
and tribulations of an artist during the development of a period in America of decent, rebellion and the
ultimate confrontation between commercialism, authoritarianism and the anti-establishment, anticorporate
metamorphosis. The end result was a snap shot. A retrospective of an artists development
and direction in the mists of social upheaval. A time of sadness and joy: of discovery and
disillusionment: of life and death.
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Orb [Excerpt]
By Byron Scott
A compilation of my very earliest poems, the good ones and the not so very good ones, the successes and the failures, the adulation and the slinking away in embarrassment.
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This poem is anonym to protect the author. Instead of being ethical and moral to stop criminals and evil doers, we are doing the opposite and we have become evil.
This poem is based on true life events and the junk happening in our modern world. Every human being in the world needs to read this
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Paradise Lost
by John Milton
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Paradise Regained
by John Milton
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Post-Digital Revelation
by J.D. Casten
Post-Digital Revelation is a prophetic poem/novella just under 100 pages about nothing less than the creation of the universe,
the landing of aliens on earth, the discovery of artificial intelligence, and stepping out to connect with other people. The poem/novella works
through a tradition reaching back through Joyce, Nietzsche, Blake, Milton, and Dante; and moves through the streams-of-consciousness of the Devil,
to that of the Universal Mind, on to that of a couple of ordinary humans, and an extraordinary monkey. Like a twenty-first century post-modern
romanticist Faust, or Frankenstein, this fantastical journey of the mind, twenty years in the writing, will challenge your preconceptions of what
a philosophical poetry can accomplish.
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Prufrock and Other Observations
By: T. S. Eliot
This collection of poems contains one of Eliot’s first and most well-known poems, namely, the Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock, in which he examines,
through the introspections of the narrator, the emptiness and soulless quality of the bleak social world surrounding him.
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Revelry in Reverie
by Kelvin Bueckert
The simplicity of a poem left on a concrete step.
Where had it come from?
Unwelcome memories shimmer in the heat of summer.
Travis raises his eyes to search the street.
There is no one.
There must be someone out there...but where?
Revelry in Reverie uses a unique combination of fiction, photographs, and previously published poetry to explore such topics as life, love,
the loss of innocence, and the corrosive effects of war. Generously salted with poetic portraits by award winning* poet, Kelvin Bueckert,
Revelry in Reverie is a quick, yet substantial read.
*Honorable Mention in the “Unscrambled Eggs Poetry contest.”
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Tales of a Wayside Inn
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
First published in 1863, the poems in the collection are told by a group of adults in the tavern of the Wayside Inn in Sudbury, Massachusetts.
The poem's Prelude begins:
"One Autumn night, in Sudbury town,
Across the meadows bare and brown,
The windows of the wayside inn
Gleamed red with fire-light...".
The best known inclusion is "Paul Revere's Ride". It also includes "The Saga of King Olaf".
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The Ballad of the White Horse
By: G. K. Chesterton
The Ballad of the White Horse is a poem about the idealized exploits of the Saxon King Alfred the Great, published in 1911.
Written in ballad form, the work is usually considered an epic poem. The poem narrates how Alfred was able to defeat the invading Danes at the Battle
of Ethandun with the aid of the Virgin Mary, and by extension God. In addition to being a narration of Alfred's militaristic and political accomplishments,
it is also considered a Catholic allegory. Chesterton incorporates a significant amount of philosophy into the basic structure of the story.
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The Belfry of Bruges and Other Poems (1845)
By: Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882) was an American educator and poet whose works include "Paul Revere's Ride",
The Song of Hiawatha, and "Evangeline". He was also the first American to translate Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy and was one of the five Fireside Poets.
Longfellow predominantly wrote lyric poems which are known for their musicality and which often presented stories of mythology and legend. He became the most
popular American poet of his day and also had success overseas.
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The Canterbury Tales
By: Geoffrey Chaucer
The Canterbury Tales is a collection of stories written by Geoffrey Chaucer in the 14th century (two of them in prose, the remaining twenty-two in verse).
The tales are contained inside a frame tale about a group of pilgrims on a pilgrimage from Southwark to visit the shrine of Saint Thomas Becket at Canterbury
Cathedral.[1] The Canterbury Tales are written in Middle English. The tales are considered to be his magnum opus, influenced by the structure of The Decameron,
which Chaucer is said to have read on an earlier visit to Italy, but Chaucer peopled his tales with 'sondry folk' rather than Boccaccio's fleeing nobles.
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