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To a Skylark on Shelley’s birthday
Read more: To a Skylark on Shelley’s birthdayToday is the birthday of Percy Bysshe Shelley (August 4, 1792 – July 8, 1822) — and Barack Obama as well. He turns 51 today. I have always loved Keats and the older I grow the more I like Wordsworth. Much of Shelley, however, goes clean over my head. I have no desire to read…
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On Julia’s Clothes and 99 other most popular poems
Read more: On Julia’s Clothes and 99 other most popular poemsThis must be one of the shortest, heavily anthologized poems in the English language. On Julia’s Clothes, by Robert Herrick, runs to only six lines. But, witty and playful, this 17th century poem is one of the 100 most anthologized poems in the English language, according to the Columbia Granger’s World of Poetry. Here are…
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