Free Verse

Song of Myself

Read by Phil Benson

Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman's best known poem - a vast and multitudinous celebration of American life in which the 'myself' of the title becomes at one wit…

Candle-Lightin' Time

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Paul Laurence Dunbar

Poetry about African American Southern life - Summary by Denise Ray

Poems of Emile Verhaeren

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Emile Verhaeren

A selection of poems from Belgian symbolist poet Émile Verhaeren, translated from French by Alma Strettell. Most of the poems selecte…

Sour Grapes

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William Carlos Williams

A collection of poems largely collected from previous magazine and journal publications. (Summary by KevinS)

The Black Riders and Other Lines (Version 2)

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Stephen Crane

Written in a purgative frenzy of pure imagination (“They came, and I wrote them, that’s all”), Stephen Crane’s The Black Riders and Other Li…

Whispers of Heavenly Death

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Walt Whitman

"Whispers of Heavenly Death" is a short collection of poems within Walt Whitman's major work "Leaves of Grass".In these …

Poetry: A Magazine of Verse: Vol. 20, No. 6, Sep., 1922

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Various

Poetry: A Magazine of Verse was founded by poet and columnist Harriet Monroe in 1912. This journal is regarded as one of the major poetry jo…

Captain Billy's Whiz Bang, Vol. 3, No. 29, January, 1922

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W. H. Fawcett

"Captain Billy's Whiz Bang" was an iconic magazine of wit and humor launched by W.H. Fawcett in 1919. Each 64-page issue was packe…

Portugiesische Sonette, übertragen durch Hans Böhm

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Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Die Gedichte sind mehrfach ins Deutsche übertragen worden, stets in Sonettform. Aber ist es möglich, diese Form beizubehalten, ohn…

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