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An Appetite For Destruction
An Appetite For Destructionby Michael DoyleI awoke with a startled coughWondering how it was, I drifted offThe Mad Hatter’s world is no longer pretenseAs I awoke to a world of nonsenseThere were poets denying use of rhymeAs though that were … Continue reading
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Tagged Appetite, Appetite for Destruction, Awoke, Bad Grammar, Card Games, Clever, Cough, Crime, Cutaways, Dare To Rhyme, Deny, Destruction, Doom and Gloom, Dreams, Drifted Off, Dull Hand, Face, Fireside Poets, Ghosts of Yesterday, Gives Way, Happiness, Human, Life, Mad Hatter, Nightmares, Nonsense, Nothing to Say, Past Time, Paste Overs, Pleasing, Poet, Poetic Way, Poetry and Poems, Pretense, Question, Reality, Reconstruction, Repeat and Rinse, Rhyme, Totality, Understand, Unpleasant, Wonder, Wordsmith
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – The Selected Poetry of John Greenleaf Whittier
John Greenleaf Whittier passed away on September 17, 1892. But before he did he left quite a legacy behind for future generations to learn from and treasure. “For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are … Continue reading
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Tagged Fireside Poets, Harvard Classics, John Greenleaf Whittier, Poetry, Quaker, Snowbound
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Time Spent With the Harvard Classics: Selected Poems of Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr., was a member of the New England Fireside Poets who lived from August 29, 1809 to October 7, 1894. He was a physician, polymath and author and as previously stated, a poet. His most famous … Continue reading
Time Spent With the Harvard Classics – The Courtin’ – James Russell Lowell
James Russell Lowell was an American Romantic poet, critic, editor and diplomat. His work is associated with the Fireside poets – the first group of American poets to rival the British in their work. Their use of conventional forms and … Continue reading
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Tagged Abolition, American Voice, Dialect, Fireside Poets, Harvard Classics, James Russell Lowell, Poet, Poetry, Prophet, Romantic, The Courtin'
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