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Because I Could Not Stop For Death
by Emily Dickinson"Because I could not stop for Death" is a lyrical poem by Emily Dickinson first published posthumously in Poems: Series 1 in 1890. The persona of Dickinson's poem meets personified Death. Death is a gentleman caller who takes a leisurely carriage ride with the speaker to her grave. According to Thomas H. Johnson's variorum edition of 1955 the numbe..
Fire and Ice
by Robert FrostFire and Ice is one of Robert Frost's most popular poems. It was published in December 1920 in Harper's Magazine and in 1923 in his Pulitzer Prize−winning book New Hampshire. It discusses the end of the world, likening the elemental force of fire with the emotion of desire, and ice with hate...
A Boy's Will
by Robert FrostA Boy's Will is a poetry collection by Robert Frost. It is Frost's first commercially published book of poems. Like much of Frost's work, the poems in A Boy's Will thematically associate with rural life, nature, philosophy, and individuality, while also alluding to earlier poets including Emily Dickinson, Thomas Hardy, William Shakespeare, and Will..
Answer to a Child's Question
by Samuel Taylor ColeridgeDo you ask what the birds say? The Sparrow, the Dove,The Linnet and Thrush say, “I love and I love!”In the winter they’re silent—the wind is so strong;What it says, I don’t know, but it sings a loud song.But green leaves, and blossoms, and sunny warm weather,And singing, and loving—all come back together.But the Lark is so brimful of gladness and l..
Electra
by SophoclesElectra or Elektra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes and the Oedipus at Colonus lead scholars to suppose that it was written towards the end of Sophocles' career. Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan War, it recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance ..
Areopagitica
by John MiltonAreopagitica; A speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England is a 1644 prose polemic by the English poet, scholar, and polemical author John Milton opposing licensing and censorship. Areopagitica is among history's most influential and impassioned philosophical defences of the principle of a right to..
An Essay on Man
by Alexander PopeAn Essay on Man is a philosophical poem of English poet Alexander Pope, written in heroic couplets and published between 1732 and 1734. Pope intended this poem to be the centrepiece of a proposed system of ethics that was to be put forth in poetic form. It was a piece of work that Pope intended to make into a larger work; however, he did not live t..
An Essay on Criticism
by Alexander PopeAn Essay on Criticism is one of the first major poems written by the English writer Alexander Pope (1688–1744). It is the source of the famous quotations "To err is human, to forgive divine," "A little learning is a dang'rous thing" (frequently misquoted as "A little knowledge is a dang'rous thing"), and "Fools rush in where angels fear to tread." ..