Howl

SpillwordsSeptember 15, 2019

Howl a poem by Allen Ginsberg For Carl Solomon   I I saw the best minds of my generation destroyed by madness, starving hysterical naked, dragg...

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Summer Moods

SpillwordsSeptember 8, 2019

Summer Moods a poem by John Clare   I love at eventide to walk alone Down narrow lanes oerhung with dewy thorn Where from the long grass underneath ...

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Battle of The Baltic

SpillwordsSeptember 1, 2019

Battle of The Baltic a poem by Thomas Campbell   Of Nelson and the North Sing the glorious day’s renown, When to battle fierce came forth All the m...

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There Will Come Soft Rains

SpillwordsAugust 25, 2019

There Will Be Soft Rains a poem by Sara Teasdale   There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmerin...

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Last Lines

SpillwordsAugust 18, 2019

Last Lines a poem by Emily Bronte   NO coward soul is mine, No trembler in the world's storm-troubled sphere: I see Heaven's glories shine, And fai...

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The Death Bed

SpillwordsAugust 11, 2019

The Death Bed a poem by Thomas Hood   We watch’d her breathing thro’ the night, Her breathing soft and low, As in her breast the wave of life Kept he...

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Confessions

SpillwordsAugust 4, 2019

Confessions a poem by Robert Browning   What is he buzzing in my ears? ‘Now that I come to die, Do I view the world as a vale of tears?’ Ah, revere...

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Poppies On Ludlow Castle

SpillwordsJuly 28, 2019

Poppies On Ludlow Castle written by: Willa Cather   THROUGH halls of vanished pleasure, And hold of vanished power, And crypt of faith forgotten, A...

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Oh Could I Raise the Darken’d Veil

SpillwordsJuly 21, 2019

Oh Could I Raise the Darken'd Veil written by: Nathaniel Hawthorne   Oh could I raise the darken’d veil, Which hides my future life from me, Could unb...

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Kubla Khan

SpillwordsJuly 14, 2019

Kubla Khan a poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge    Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment. In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree:...

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Bear In There

SpillwordsJuly 7, 2019

Bear In There a poem by Shel Silverstein    There's a Polar Bear In our Frigidaire-- He likes it 'cause it's cold in there. With his seat in t...

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I Hear America Singing

SpillwordsJuly 4, 2019

I Hear America Singing written by: Walt Whitman   I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing his as it shou...

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Love Is Enough

SpillwordsJune 30, 2019

Love Is Enough a poem by William Morris   Love is enough: though the world be a-waning, And the woods have no voice but the voice of complaining, Thou...

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Love and a Question

SpillwordsJune 23, 2019

Love and a Question a poem by Robert Frost   A stranger came to the door at eve, And he spoke the bridegroom fair. He bore a green-white stick in hi...

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