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Walt Whitman: Out of May's Shows Selected

Out of May's Shows SelectedApple orchards, the trees all cover'd with blossoms; Wheat fields carpeted far and near in vital emerald green; The eternal, exhaustless freshness of each early…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Immortality

by EmilyDickinsonIXXIImmortality Immortality It is an honorable thought, And makes one lift one's hat, As one encountered gentlefolk Upon a daily street, That we've immortal place…

Walt Whitman: You Lingering Sparse Leaves of Me

You Lingering Sparse Leaves of MeYou lingering sparse leaves of me on winter-nearing boughs, And I some well-shorn tree of field or orchard-row; You tokens diminute and lorn—(not now the…

Walt Whitman: Bivouac on a Mountain Side

Bivouac on a Mountain SideI see before me now a traveling army halting, Below a fertile valley spread, with barns and the orchards of summer, Behind, the terraced sides of a mountain, abrupt…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: A Service of Song

by EmilyDickinsonVVIIA Service of Song A Service of Song Some keep the Sabbath going to church; I keep it staying at home, With a bobolink for a chorister, And an orchard for a dome.…

Thomas Walsh: In the Mushroom Meadows

In the Mushroom MeadowsThomas WalshSun on the dewy grasslands where late the frost hath shone, And lo, what elfin cities are these we come upon! What pigmy domes and thatches, what Arab…

Cormac McCarthy

Name at birth: Charles Joseph McCarthy, Jr.Cormac McCarthy was an American novelist whose best known works made it to the big screen in the form of All the Pretty Horses, No Country for Old Men and…

Amy Lowell: Off the Turnpike

Off the TurnpikeGood ev'nin', Mis' Priest. I jest stepped in to tell you Good-bye. Yes, it's all over. All my things is packed An' every last one o' them boxes Is on Bradley's team Bein'…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Summer Shower

by EmilyDickinsonXPsalm of the DaySummer Shower Summer Shower A drop fell on the apple tree, Another on the roof; A half a dozen kissed the eaves, And made the gables laugh. A few went…