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The Aeneid of Virgil (Version 2)

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Virgil


The Aeneid is a Latin epic written by Virgil in the 1st century BC that tells the legendary story of Aeneas, a Trojan who traveled to Italy,…

Gone

In Poems

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Adam Lindsay Gordon


This is a volume of poems by Adam Lindsay Gordon, 'British-born Australian Steeple-Chase Rider and Poet'."The poems of Gordon have an i…

IX

In A Dark Month

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Algernon Charles Swinburne


This is a sequence of poems by Algernon Charles Swinburne. The poems were written in 1881, during the one month in which his seven year old …

James Monroe, December 3, 1822

In State of the Union Addresses by United States Presidents (1817 - 1828)

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John Quincy Adams


The State of the Union address is a speech presented by the President of the United States to a joint session of the United States Congress,…

The Camper - Read by GPA

In The Camper

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E. Pauline Johnson


It is eminently fitting that this daughter of Nature should have been laid to rest in no urban cemetery. According to her own request she wa…

The Retired Cat - Read by GPA

In The Retired Cat

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William Cowper


William Cowper was an English poet and hymnodist. One of the most popular poets of his time, Cowper changed the direction of 18th century na…

The Rat

In The Three Taverns: A Book of Poems

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Edwin Arlington Robinson


This is a volume of poems by Edwin Arlington Robinson. This volume contains, among other poems, the famous poems The Valley of the Shadow an…

Spell-Bound

In The Defence of Guenevere and Other Poems

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William Morris


This is a volume of early narrative poems by William Morris, first published in 1858. While at the time of writing the most important stages…

Book II

In The Meditations of the Emperor Marcus Aurelius Antoninus

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Marcus Aurelius


The Meditations is divided into 12 books that chronicle different periods of Marcus' life. Each book is not in chronological order and it wa…

They Winter With the Sage; and Thereafter Come Again to Vale Turris

In The Well at the World's End: Book 4: The Road Home

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William Morris


In The Well at the World's End, Ralph of Upmeads, youngest son of the King of Upmeads, leaves home (where nothing exciting ever happens) wit…