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- By Kara Jacksonstill, living like they orbit one another, my grandfather, the planet, & grandma, his moon assigned...
- By Lydia Maria ChildOver the river and through the wood, To grandfather's house we go; The horse knows the way To carry ...
- By John KeatsThou still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian...
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- By Walt WhitmanO Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize we sought...
- By Ernest Lawrence ThayerThe outlook wasn’t brilliant for the Mudville nine that day; The score stood four to two with but one...
- By Alfred, Lord TennysonI Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred...
- By Jane TaylorTwinkle, twinkle, little star, How I wonder what you are! Up above the world so high, Like a diamond...
- By Edna St. Vincent MillayMy candle burns at both ends; It will not last the night; But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends— It gives...
- By Joyce KilmerI think that I shall never see A poem lovely as a tree. A tree whose hungry mouth is prest Against the...
- By Gerard Manley HopkinsGlory be to God for dappled things – For skies of couple-colour as a brinded cow; For rose-moles all...
- By Robert FrostSomething there is that doesn’t love a wall, That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, And spills...
- By Robert FrostTwo roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood...
- By Edgar Allan PoeOnce upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume...
- By Percy Bysshe ShelleyI met a traveller from an antique land, Who said—“Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the ...
- By Rudyard KiplingIf you can keep your head when all about you Are losing theirs and blaming it on you, If you can trust...
- By A. E. HousmanThe time you won your town the race We chaired you through the market-place; Man and boy stood cheering...
- By Jane YolenJack was quite nimble, Jack was quite quick, Jack gave the beanstalk A mighty big kick. Down came the...
- By Claude McKayIf we must die, let it not be like hogs Hunted and penned in an inglorious spot, While round us bark...
- By Ava Leavell HaymonYou are food.You are here for meto eat. Fatten up,and I will like you better.Your brother will be first...