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March 14, 2020"My Childhood's Home I See Again" by Abraham Lincoln Did you know President Lincoln wrote poetry?
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"My Childhood's Home I See Again" by Abraham Lincoln
My childhood's home I see again,
And sadden with the view;And still, as memory crowds my brain,There's pleasure in it too.O Memory! thou midway world'Twixt earth and paradise,Where things decayed and loved ones lostIn dreamy shadows rise,And, freed from all that's earthly vile,Seem hallowed, pure, and bright,Like scenes in some enchanted isleAll bathed in liquid light.As dusky mountains please the eyeWhen twilight chases day;As bugle-notes that, passing by,In distance die away;As leaving some grand waterfall,We, lingering, list its roar—So memory will hallow allWe've known, but know no more.Near twenty years have passed awaySince here I bid farewellTo woods and fields, and scenes of play,And playmates loved so well.Where many were, but few remainOf old familiar things;But seeing them, to mind againThe lost and absent brings.The friends I left that parting day,How changed, as time has sped!Young childhood grown, strong manhood gray,And half of all are dead.I hear the loved survivors tellHow nought from death could save,Till every sound appears a knell,And every spot a grave.I range the fields with pensive tread,And pace the hollow rooms,And feel (companion of the dead)I'm living in the tombs....more March 09, 2020"My Childhood's Home I See Again" by Abraham Lincoln Did you know President Lincoln wrote poetry?
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"My Childhood's Home I See Again" by Abraham Lincoln
My childhood's home I see again,
And sadden with the view;And still, as memory crowds my brain,There's pleasure in it too.O Memory! thou midway world'Twixt earth and paradise,Where things decayed and loved ones lostIn dreamy shadows rise,And, freed from all that's earthly vile,Seem hallowed, pure, and bright,Like scenes in some enchanted isleAll bathed in liquid light.As dusky mountains please the eyeWhen twilight chases day;As bugle-notes that, passing by,In distance die away;As leaving some grand waterfall,We, lingering, list its roar—So memory will hallow allWe've known, but know no more.Near twenty years have passed awaySince here I bid farewellTo woods and fields, and scenes of play,And playmates loved so well.Where many were, but few remainOf old familiar things;But seeing them, to mind againThe lost and absent brings.The friends I left that parting day,How changed, as time has sped!Young childhood grown, strong manhood gray,And half of all are dead.I hear the loved survivors tellHow nought from death could save,Till every sound appears a knell,And every spot a grave.I range the fields with pensive tread,And pace the hollow rooms,And feel (companion of the dead)I'm living in the tombs....more February 18, 2020"Tell all the truth but tell it slant" by Emily Dickinson Text: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/56824/tell-all-the-truth-but-tell-it-slant-1263
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...more February 12, 2020"God's Grandeur" by Gerard Manley Hopkins Text: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44395/gods-grandeur
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...more January 26, 2020"The Destruction of Sennacherib" by Lord Byron Text: https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43827/the-destruction-of-sennacherib
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...more January 26, 2020"Leisure" by William Henry Davies Text: https://englishverse.com/poems/leisure
Thanks to Parker Fox for this recommendation!
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...more December 09, 2019"Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night" by Dylan Thomas Editor William Harmon calls this the best villanelle of the twentieth century, and among the best poems of any type for that time.
https://poets.org/poem/do-not-go-gentle-good-night
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...more December 09, 2019"The Lake Isle of Innisfree" by William Butler Yeats Yeats was inspired to write this poem about living a simple life on a lake near a place where he spent summers as a child in County Sligo, Ireland. He was influenced by Henry David Thoreau's Walden.
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/43281/the-lake-isle-of-innisfree
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...more December 09, 2019"Fire and Ice" by Robert Frost A short poem about hate and indifference. Which is worse?
https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/44263/fire-and-ice
...more December 09, 2019"The Emperor of Ice-Cream" by Wallace Stevens https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45234/the-emperor-of-ice-cream
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