by Clement Clarke Moore Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse; The stockings were hung by the chimney…
To S. M. a young African Painter, on seeing his Works by Phillis Wheatley
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THE LAMB by William Blake
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Christmas in the Olden Time by Walter Scott
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A Christmas Carol by Christina G. Rossetti
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Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats
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Nightmare: A Tale for an Autumn Evening by Amy Lowell
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Amazing Grace by John Newton
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Farewell to the Muse by Sir Walter Scott
? Sir Walter Scott???( 1771 ? 1832) ?by Sir Walter Scott? ? ?? ? ? Enchantress, farewell, who so oft hast decoy'd me, At the close of the evening through…
THE SICK ROSE by William Blake
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The Concord Hymn by Ralph Waldo Emerson
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A Poison Tree by William Blake
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EPITAPH ON A HARE by William Cowper
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Upon A Spider Catching A Fly by Edward Taylor
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THE GIFT by Oliver Goldsmith
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Ode to Pity by Jane Austen
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The Progress of Poetry by Jonathan Swift
Jonathan Swift (1667-1745)
THANATOPSIS by William Cullen Bryant
William Cullen Bryant (1794-1878)
A Red, Red Rose by Robert Burns
Robert Burns (1759-1796)
The Time I’ve Lost In Wooing by Thomas Moore
Thomas Moore (1779-1852)
To Autumn by John Keats
John Keats (1795-1821)
She Walks in Beauty By Lord Byron
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Solitude: An Ode–Alexander Pope
Alexander Pope (1688-1744)
We’ll Go No More A-Roving–Lord Byron
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On Virtue– Phillis Wheatley
Phillis Wheatley was born in 1753. She was the first African American to have works published in the United States.