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The Migration of Ghosts

Author:Pauline MelvillePublisher:Bloomsbury Publishing Pauline Melville is hard to pin down. In an era when so many writers are confined to a single voice or easy ideological stance, she-…

Farmer: On the Preservation of Parties

On the Preservation of PartiesFarmer18 March 1788by FarmerSee also Federalist No. 10On the Preservation of Parties, Public Liberty DependsThe opposite qualities of the first confederation…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 40

Part 40Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask—lie over! You light surfaces only, I force surfaces and depths also.Earth! you seem to look for something at my hands, Say, old top-knot,…

Walt Whitman: Proud Music of the Storm, Part 3

Part 3Ah from a little child, Thou knowest soul how to me all sounds became music, My mother's voice in lullaby or hymn, (The voice, O tender voices, memory's loving voices, Last miracle of…

Walt Whitman: Vocalism

VocalismPart 1Vocalism, measure, concentration, determination, and the divine power to speak words; Are you full-lung'd and limber-lipp'd from long trial? from vigorous practice? from…

Anna Hempstead Branch: Grieve not, Ladies

Grieve not, LadiesAnna Hempstead BranchOh, grieve not, Ladies, if at night Ye wake to feel your beauty going. It was a web of frail delight, Inconstant as an April snowing.In other eyes, in…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Sonnet to Byron

by Percy Bysshe Shelley MusicFragment: 'Methought I Was a B...Sonnet to Byron Published by Medwin, "The Shelley Papers", 1832 (lines 1-7), and "Life of Shelley", 1847 (lines 1-9, 12-14).…

Edwin Markham: The Man with the Hoe

The Man with the Hoe(Written after seeing Millet's world-famous painting)Edwin MarkhamBowed by the weight of centuries he leans Upon his hoe and gazes on the ground, The emptiness of ages in…