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In The Ontario Readers: Fourth Book
A fourth grade English textbook published by the Minister of Education for Ontario in 1909. This reader features various pieces of Poetry a…
Centennial
In The Sentimental Song Book
Julia A. Moore, the "Sweet Singer of Michigan," is today considered one of the true luminaries of bad poetry. Her verse, with its …
Music
In The Poetical Works
Fitz-Greene Halleck was born in the old Connecticut coastal town of Guildford. At age 21 he moved to New York where he worked for nearly 4 d…
Le Balcon
In The Collected Poems of Lord Alfred Douglas
This is a chronologically arranged collection of poems compiled by the author in his late 40s, after he had discarded the Uranian themes of …
Film Fantasy by The Drifter
In Shadowland: September, 1919
Shadowland was an American monthly magazine about art, dance, and film published from 1919 to 1923 before being absorbed by Motion Picture C…
Chapter 6
In Poems of American History, The Period of Growth
This volume covers the age of expansion from the Revolution to the Civil War, including the creation of the Constitution, the Presidency of …
Chapter XI
In The Figure in the Carpet
The story ostensibly concerns a young literary critics who greatly admires the writer Hugh Vereker. A meeting with Vereker, however, shows h…
A Photographic Fix by Frederic Hay
In One-Act Play Collection 015
Here, in our 15th collection, are 10 One Act Plays for your enjoyment. They range from the mid-1600s to the early 1900s, from outright farce…
Germany Part VIII: Modern Germany: Historical note
In The World’s Story Volume VII: Germany, the Netherlands and Switzerland
This is the seventh volume of the 15-volume series of The World’s Story: a history of the World in story, song and art, edited by Eva March …
Voices
In Birds and All Nature, Vol. IV, No 6, December 1898
"Birds and All Nature" was a monthly publication of the Nature Study Publishing Company of Chicago. It includes short poems and br…
Table 19 - Soft “c” Sound
In The Beacon Second Reader
In the "Beacon Second Reader" the author has chosen for his stories only those of recognized literary merit; and while it has been…
Challenge to a Modernist
In The Pale Woman
Sara Bard Field was a poet from Ohio who spent most of her life in California. She was a suffragist, a Christian socialist, a Georgist and a…
An Initial Acrostic by H. P. McKnight
In Prison Poetry
A collection of poetry written in the late 1800's by inmates of the Ohio Penitentiary in Columbus, Ohio. - Summary by mleigh
The Nineteenth Night of the Month
In The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Arabian Nights) Volume 11
This is a collection of stories collected over thousands of years by various authors, translators and scholars. They are an amalgam of mytho…
03 - Chapter III
In The Aspern Papers
One of James’s favorite short novels, the Aspern Papers tells of the efforts of the nameless narrator to procure the papers of a famous, bu…
The Musicians of Bremen
In Tales of Laughter
Time to exercise your funny bone. This fun collection of stories from around the world will make children of all ages smile and chuckle. …
Oscar Wilde and the Aesthetic Movement
In Short Nonfiction Collection, Vol. 070
Twenty short nonfiction works selected by the readers. “Shall we ever be able to visit the moon?” queries journalist Charles Nevers Holmes i…
The Sword-Dancers’ Song and Interlude
In Ancient Poems, Ballads, and Songs of the Peasantry of England
This traditional, and, for the most part, unprinted literature,—cherished in remote villages, resisting everywhere the invasion of modern na…
A Sell
In Selected Poems
Thomas Parker Sanborn was an American poet from Massachusetts. In this collection of his work, published from 1883 to 1886 in The Harvard Mo…
Human Nature
In One-Act Play Collection 008
Librivox’s One-Act Play Collection 008 includes one-act plays in the public domain read by a variety of LibriVox members.Project BC: Michele…