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Poetry is a fossil rock-print of a fin and a wing, with an illegible oath between. - Carl Sandburg
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Absalom and Achitophel
by John Dryden
Charles II's illegitimate son plots to overthrow his father
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Concord Hymn
by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sung at the Completion of the Concord Monument, April 19, 1836
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Monterey
by Charles Fenno Hoffman
Zachary Taylor's forces attack during the Mexican-American War
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A History of England
by Rudyard Kipling
22 poems written for C.R.L. Fletcher's "A History of England"
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The Dying Words of Stonewall Jackson
by Sidney Lanier
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Paul Revere's Ride
by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
the inspired telling of one of America most memorable historic events
Listen my children and you shall hear
Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere
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Lays of Ancient Rome
by Thomas Babbington Macaulay
Stories of the Roman Empire, with notes by the author
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Cromwell's Return
by Andrew Marvell
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Blake's Victory
by Andrew Marvell
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On the Painting of the Sistine Chapel
by Michelangelo
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Admiral's All
by Henry Newbolt
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The Fighting Téméraire
by Henry Newbolt
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How Cyrus Laid the Cable
by John Godfrey Saxe
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The Indian's Welcome to the Pilgrim Fathers
by Lydia H. Sigourney
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Salem
by Edmund Clarence Stedman
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Barbara Frietchie
by John Greenleaf Whittier
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When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd
by Walt Whitman
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London, 1802
by William Wordsworth
on the state of England in the early 19th century
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