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Great Poems « Greatest Books of All Time » Life-Changing Arts A selection of great poems from centuries of brillant authors and poets. Whether you are new to the world of poetry and wish to savor it, or a well-versed poetry connoisseur, either way you will probably enjoy the classics of world poetry. The poems are sorted by vote. To vote for a poem, click on the

The Whirligig of Life The Whirligig of Life by O. Henry (1862-1910) Word Count: 2256 Poetry - Ela Barton Ela Barton is a performance poet living in Seattle, Washington. She has been seen in Seattle Gay News, and at various venues in and around the Pacific Northwest. She has been heard on KUOW (Seattle's NPR) and CITR (Canadian Radio Station). Currently, she is one of the revolving hosts for Seattle's longest running weekly show, The Seattle Poetry Slam and a Performance Poetry Teacher at Bent: A Queer Writing Institute. We often forget that WE ARE NATURE. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature. We've lost our connection to ourselves. We often forget that we are nature. Nature is not something separate from us. So when we say that we have lost our connection to nature, we’ve lost our connection to ourselves. External Stimuli : Andy Goldsworthy’s Digital Catalogue Themes : Art Nodes : Andy Goldsworthy, connection, elegance, environmental art, grace, nature, zen

Do not stand at my grave and weep Do Not Stand at My Grave and Weep is a poem written in 1932 by Mary Elizabeth Frye. Although the origin of the poem was disputed until later in her life, Mary Frye's authorship was confirmed in 1998 after research by Abigail Van Buren, a newspaper columnist.[1] Full text[edit] Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there; I do not sleep. www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/11870/pg11870.html The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Country of the Blind, And Other Stories, by H. G. Wells This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever.

Underlined Book Quotes Become Clever Illustrations Bookworm or not, you can't help but enjoy these black and white illustrations of literary quotes by Evan Robertson. The New York-based graphic designer has taken some of the cleverest lines written by famous authors such as William Faulkner and Oscar Wilde and turned them into wonderful posters. These literature-inspired fine art illustrations are currently being sold on Etsy under the name Obvious State. Robertson would see a "little jewel of a sentence" and he'd underline it.

Though I Am Young and Cannot Tell accent: emphasis given a syllable in ordinary usage, as provided by a pronouncing dictionary. See also stress. accentual-syllabic: the prosodic mode that dominated English-language poetry 1400-1900, and that this tutorial exclusively addresses. Alike distinct from verse that is quantitative (measuring duration, as in classical Greek and Latin), accentual (counting only beats, as in Old English), and syllabic (counting only syllables, as in certain: 20th-cy. experiments), accentual-syllabic verse is based on recurrent units (feet) that combine slacks and stresses in fixed sequence.