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Classics

19th Century 1 min

The Railway Train

I like to see it lap the miles,
And lick the valleys up,
And stop to feed itself at tanks;
And then, prodigious, step

Around a pile of mountains,
And, supercilious, peer
In shanties, by ... [+]

Classics

19th Century 1 min

The Children's Hour

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Between the dark and the daylight,
When the night is beginning to lower,
Comes a pause in the day's occupations,
That is known as the Children's Hour.

I hear in the chamber above me ... [+]

Classics

19th Century 3 min

Paul Revere's Ride

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Listen, my children, and you shall hear

Of the midnight ride of Paul Revere,

On the eighteenth of April, in Seventy-Five:

Hardly a man is now alive

Who remembers that famous day ... [+]

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19th Century 1 min

Foreign Lands

Robert Louis Stevenson

Up into the cherry tree

Who should climb but little me?

I held the trunk with both my hands

And looked abroad on foreign lands.

I saw the next door garden lie, ... [+]

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19th Century 20th Century 1 min

The Telephone

Robert Frost

“When I was just as far as I could walk
From here to-day,
There was an hour
All still
When leaning with my head against a flower
I heard you talk.
Don’t say I didn’t, for I heard you say—
You ... [+]

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19th Century 20th Century 1 min

The Road Not Taken

Robert Frost

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,
And sorry I could not travel both
And be one traveler, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;

Then took ... [+]

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19th Century 20th Century 1 min

Some say the world will end in fire,
Some say in ice.
From what I’ve tasted of desire
I hold with those who favor fire.
But if it had to perish twice,
I think I know enough of hate
To say that ... [+]

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19th Century 20th Century 1 min

Evening in Sugar Orchard

Robert Frost

From where I lingered in a lull in March
outside the sugar-house one night for choice,
I called the fireman with a careful voice
And bade him leave the pan and stoke the arch:
‘O fireman, give ... [+]

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19th Century 20th Century 1 min

Mending Wall

Robert Frost

Something there is that doesn't love a wall,
That sends the frozen-ground-swell under it,
And spills the upper boulders in the sun;
And makes gaps even two can pass abreast.
The work of hunters ... [+]

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19th Century 20th Century 1 min

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold,
Her hardest hue to hold.
Her early leaf's a flower;
But only so an hour.
Then leaf subsides to leaf.
So Eden sank to grief,
So dawn goes down to day.
Nothing ... [+]

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19th Century 20th Century 2 min

Birches

Robert Frost

When I see birches bend to left and right
Across the lines of straighter darker trees,
I like to think some boy's been swinging them.
But swinging doesn't bend them down to stay.
Ice-storms do ... [+]

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19th Century 20th Century 1 min

Acquainted with the Night

Robert Frost

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain, and back in rain.
I have outwalked the furthest city light.
I have looked down the saddest city lane.
I have passed by the ... [+]

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A New Kind of Literary Pulse

The Railway Train

The Children's Hour

Paul Revere's Ride

Foreign Lands

The Telephone

The Road Not Taken

Fire and Ice

Evening in Sugar Orchard

Mending Wall

Nothing Gold Can Stay

Birches

Acquainted with the Night

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