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• Popularity or unpopularity

  
  Squandermania and other foibles — Authority: 120
  I have never heard or read any statement regarding poetry’s popularity or unpopularity in the United States that wasn’t backed up by anything more than subjective, anecdotal evidence. I have never heard or read any claim for poetry being more popular in one era or period that was backed up by any concrete ...
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• LR Site Launch Day!

  
  silverkeys.writes — Authority: 106
  After much hair-pulling and lip-chewing on my part, the LR Web Site and Blog went live this morning! (Click on the banner to go to the new site) An exciting endeavor for all involved, but especially for me, because I can breathe a little easier (at least for a little while) now that I don’t have the ...
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• Thought (Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness) by Walt Whitman

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  Thought by Walt Whitman Of obedience, faith, adhesiveness; As I stand aloof and look there is to me something profoundly     affecting in large masses of men following the lead of those     who do not believe in men. * * * [from the 1860 edition of Leaves of Grass ] To read other ...
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• Sitalkas (by H.D.)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  H.D. in the 1910s Sitalkas by Hilda Doolittle [first published in New Freewoman 1 (Sept. 1913) , also included in Heliodora (1924)] Thou art come at length more beautiful than any cool god in a chamber under Lycias far coast, than any high god who touches us not here in the seeded grass, aye, ...
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• Hermonax (by H.D.)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  H.D. in the 1910s Hermonax by Hilda Doolittle [first published in Poetry 3 (Feb. 1914) , also included in Heliodora (1924)] Gods of the sea; Ino, leaving warm meads for the green, grey-green fastnesses of the great deeps; and Palemon, bright seeker of sea-shaft, hear me. Let all whom the sea ...
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• Orion Dead (by H.D.)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  H.D. in the 1910s Orion Dead by Hilda Doolittle [first published in Egoist 1 (Feb 1914) as "Incantation: Artemis over the body of Orion"] (Artemis speaks.) The cornel-trees uplift from the furrows: the roots at their bases strike lower through the barley-sprays. So arise and face me. I am poisoned ...
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• Eurydice (by H.D.)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  H.D. in the 1910s Eurydice by Hilda Doolittle [first published in Egoist 4 (May 1917) ] I So you have swept me back, I who have walked with the live souls above the earth, I who have slept among the live flowers at last; so for your arrogance and your ruthlessness I am swept back where ...
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• Moonrise (by H.D.)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  H.D. in the 1910s Moonrise by Hilda Doolittle [first published in Poetry 5 (March 1915), later included in Heliodora (1924)] Will you glimmer on the sea? will you fling your spear-head on the shore? what note shall we pitch? we have a song, on the bank we share our arrows; the loosed string tells ...
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• The Pool (by H.D.)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  H.D. in the 1910s The Pool by Hilda Doolittle [first published in Poetry 5 (March 1915), later included in Heliodora (1924)] Are you alive? I touch you. You quiver like a sea-fish. I cover you with my net. What are you--banded one? * * * To read other H.D. works in the Crisis ...
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• Oread (by H.D.)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  H.D. in the 1910s Oread by Hilda Doolittle [first published in Egoist 1 (Feb. 1914), later included in Heliodora (1924)] Whirl up, sea-- whirl your pointed pines, splash your great pines on our rocks, hurl your green over us, cover us with your pools of fir. * * * To read other ...
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• Pygmalion (by H.D.)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) in the 1910s Pygmalion [from Egoist 4, Feb. 1917] I Shall I let myself be caught in my own light? shall I let myself be broken in my own heat? or shall I cleft the rock as of old and break my own fire with its surface? Does this fire thwart me and my craft, or ...
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• Adonis (by H.D.)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) in the 1910s Adonis [from Egoist 4, Jan. 1917] I Each of us like you has died once, each of us like you has passed through drift of wood-leaves, cracked and bent and tortured and unbent in the winter-frost, the burnt into gold points, lighted afresh, crisp ...
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• The God (by H.D.)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  H.D. (Hilda Doolittle) in the 1910s The God [from Egoist 4, Jan. 1917] I I asked of your face: is it dark, set beneath heavy locks, circled with stiff ivy-fruit, clear, cut with great hammer stroke, brow, nose and mouth, mysterious and far distant from my sense. I asked: can he from his ...
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• Quote: "Komunyakaa"

  
  Pofrika — Authority: 119
  Word for word,we beat the loveout of each other.~Yusef Komunyakaa[from Once the Dream Begins...]
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• Critical Appreciation of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s &Ldquo;sympathy”

  
  Bookstove — Authority: 129
  Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “Sympathy” is invaluable to African American literature. His poem parallels his own life to the life of a caged bird. Imagery is absolutely essential to the development of the poem as a whole. Rhyme too, is an important component. Dunbar shapes his poem and relates his message to his ...
  6 days ago

• Critical Appreciation of Paul Laurence Dunbar’s “sympathy”

  
  Bookstove — Authority: 129
  Paul Laurence Dunbar’s poem “Sympathy” is invaluable to African American literature. His poem parallels his own life to the life of a caged bird. Imagery is absolutely essential to the development of the poem as a whole. Rhyme too, is an important component. Dunbar shapes his poem and relates his message to his ...
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• American Spring Song (by Sherwood Anderson)

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  1876-1941 American Spring Song by Sherwood Anderson from Mid-American Chants   [New York: John Lane Company, 1918] In the spring, when winds blew and farmers were plowing fields, It came into my mind to be glad because of my brutality. Along a street I went and over a bridge. I went through ...
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• All the Words to the Baseball Poem ‘Casey at the Bat,’ Free and Online

  
  One-Minute Book Reviews — Authority: 427
  Okay, parents, here’s my annual reminder: If you want to get the kids interested in poetry, turn off the TV during the seventh-inning stretch and read Ernest L. Thayer’s brief classic baseball poem, “Casey at the Bat.” You’ll find a good, free, legal and complete version on this page of the site for the ...
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• Love Song (He: You have come between me) by William Carlos Williams

  
  CrisisChronicles Online Library — Authority: 143
  Love Song   by William Carlos Williams [from The Little Review (June 1918)]           HE You have come between me and the terrifying presence of the moon, the stars, the sun and the earth with all its crooked outgrowths.  The desolation of life has been darkened by your shadow, but toward me your ...
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• Tomorrows A Good Day To Die (unfinished work in progress)

  
  Poems at The Poetry Showcase - Share your poems at the Poetry Showcase — Authority: 163
  Buckskin brown eyes stare deep into the fire Leathery brown faces turn up toward vast, starlit sky Sinewy brown muscles tensed up like wire Tomorrow will be a good day to die read more
  2 weeks ago

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