Cep's Poetry Notes

Cep's Poetry Notes

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Cep's Poetry Notes episodes

  • "The Petrified Fern"

    Mary Bolles Branch (1840-1922) wrote books for children as well as travel literature; here she depicts the creation and recovery of an fossil.



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    4 min
  • "Epithalamium"

    John G. C. Brainard (1795–1828), a sometime lawyer, wrote a beautiful wedding poem before dying of tuberculosis.



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    2 min
  • "Beyond Recall"

    Mary E. Bradley (1835-1930), best known for a radical Science Fiction novel wherein good-mannered blonde women clone themselves, talks about being brought back from an early death into longterm disappointment.



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    4 min
  • "In Garfield's Danger"

    Anna C. Brackett (1836-1911) writes of the national desire that the dying President James Garfield will recover in 1881 from the gunshot wounds that ultimately killed him.



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    3 min
  • "To Time"

    William Lisle Bowles (1762-1850) explores the notion that time heals sorrows.



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    3 min
  • "Love's Reward" and "The Difference"

    Francis W. Bourdillon (1852-1921) shares a pessimistic view of love's availability in these two poems.



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    3 min
  • "The Lesson of the Bee" and "Love"

    American writer Anna Lynch (1815-1891) was traveling in Italy, doing research on the public school system, when she met Italian professor Vincenzo Botta; he came to the US and they married two years later.



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    4 min
  • "The Inner Calm"

    Horatius Bonar (1808-1889), aka “Horace” Bonar to his friends, who lost five of his nine children in infancy or childhood, wrote many hymns still sung today.



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    3 min
  • "Awakening of the Poetical Faculty"

    George Henry Boker (1823-1890) seems to have been inspired to write verse by much grander influences than I can claim.



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    3 min
  • "Love of the Country"

    Robert Bloomfield (1766-1823) wrote about the lives of rural laborers, and here celebrates his love for the environment far from the city.



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    3 min

About Cep's Poetry Notes

From the publisher's feed

A daily selection from an obscure or famous poet with remarks.