Poetry

I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it …

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Three of us afloat in the meadow by the swing, Three of us aboard in the basket on the …

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Will you walk into my parlour?" said the Spider to the Fly, "'Tis the prettiest little …

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I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once …

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The day was hot and the day was dumb, Save for cricket's chirr or the bee's low hum, Not …

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The Sky-lark, when the dews of morn Hang tremulous on flower and thorn, And violets …

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There was an Old Man with a beard, Who said, "It is just as I feared!— Two Owls and a …

Continue Reading about A Limerick by Edward Lear

I like to see it lap the miles, And lick the valleys up, And stop to feed itself at …

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Whose woods these are I think I know. His house is in the village though; He will not …

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Men! whose boast it is that ye Come of fathers brave and free, If there breathe on earth …

Continue Reading about “Stanzas on Freedom” by James Russell Lowell