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Poem of the Week - When I am Dead, My Dearest
Christina Rossetti began writing at age 7 but she was 31 before her first work was published. She continued to write and publish for the rest of her life although she focused primarily on devotional writing and children's poetry. She maintained a large circle of friends and for ten years volunteered at a home [...]Nov 18
Poem of the Week - O Mistress Mine
O Mistress Mine, known and read by many as one of William Shakespeare's most famous "love poems" was actually sung by Feste in Twelfth Night. It is one of a set of five "Shakespeare Songs" which Arthur Sullivan composed as "contemporary" music during 1863 and 1864. Since then it has been sung and recorded in [...]Oct 29
Poem of the Week - I Do Not Love You Except …
Pablo Neruda, considered one of the greatest Spanish-language poets of the 20th century was a prolific writer, his output ranging from erotically charged love poems, surrealist poems, historical epics, and overtly political poems, to poems on common things, like nature and the sea. In 1923 his first volume of verse, Crepusculario ("Book of Twilights"), was [...]Great Books ~ A Chapter a Day
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