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Poems, Decoded
The plot, the people, the point and the ending — then the Boovie film, where there is one.
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3,562 poetry
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The Real Mother Goose
A farmer's wife brandishes a carving knife while pigs go to market and men debate the merits of getting out of bed.
Blanche Fisher Wright · poetry
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The Real Robert Burns
James L. Hughes · poetry
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The Red Flower: Poems Written in War Time
Henry Van Dyke · poetry
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The Remains of Hesiod the Ascræan, Including the Shield of Hercules
Hesiod · poetry
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The Remarkable Adventures of an Old Woman and Her Pig
poetry
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The Return of the Dead, and Other Ballads
George Borrow · poetry
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The ride to the lady, and other poems
Helen Gray Cone · poetry
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The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
A sailor kills a bird, ghosts haunt the ship, and a wedding guest loses his night.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge · poetry
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The Ring of Amethyst
Alice Wellington Rollins · poetry
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The Rolliad, in Two Parts
Richard Tickell · poetry
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The Roman Poets of the Augustan Age: Virgil
W. Y. Sellar · poetry
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The Roman Poets of the Republic, 2nd edition
A scholar surveys how a nation of soldiers and lawyers borrowed Greek meters to document their own bloody history and private passions.
W. Y. Sellar · poetry
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The Romance of a Princess: A Comedy; and Other Poems
Amy Redpath Roddick · play
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The Romaunce of the Sowdone of Babylone and of Ferumbras His Sone Who Conquerede Rome
Emil Hausknecht · poetry
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The Rose-Jar
Thomas S. Jones · poetry
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The Rowley Poems
Thomas Chatterton · poetry
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The Royal Picture Alphabet
John Leighton · poetry
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The Rubáiyát of a Bachelor
Helen Rowland · poetry
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The Rubaiyat of a Huffy Husband
Mary Wallace Bundy Little · poetry
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The Rubáiyát of a Persian Kitten
Oliver Herford · poetry
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The Rubáiyát of Bridge
Carolyn Wells · poetry
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The Rubaiyat of Ohow Dryyam
J. L. Duff · poetry
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Cayenne
Gelett Burgess · poetry
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
You arrive like water and leave like wind. Might as well order a drink first.
Omar Khayyam · poetry
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The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam Jr.
Wallace Irwin · poetry
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The Runaway Donkey, and Other Rhymes for Children
Emilie Poulsson · poetry
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The Sabbath Breaker Reclaimed; or, a pleasing history of Thomas Brown
Old Humphrey · poetry
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The Saint's Tragedy
Charles Kingsley · play
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The Sardonic Arm
Maxwell Bodenheim · poetry
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The Satires of Juvenal, Persius, Sulpicia, and Lucilius
The wealthy are hypocrites, the poor are desperate, and everyone is under constant judgment.
Juvenal · poetry
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The Satires, Epistles, and Art of Poetry of Horace
Horace · poetry
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The Scarlet Gown: Being Verses by a St. Andrews Man
R. F. Murray · poetry
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The Scrap Book, Volume 1, No. 5
periodical
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The Scribleriad, and The Difference Between Verbal and Practical Virtue
John Hervey Baron Hervey · poetry
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The Seaside Sibyl; Or Leaves of Destiny: A Fortune Teller in Verse
poetry
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The Second Book of Modern Verse
Jessie Belle Rittenhouse · poetry
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The Secret Way
Zona Gale · poetry
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The Secrets of the Self (Asrar-i Khudi) — A Philosophical Poem
Muhammad Sir Iqbal · poetry
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The sensitive plant
Percy Bysshe Shelley · poetry
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The Serpent Knight, and Other Ballads
George Borrow · poetry
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The Seven Ages of Childhood
Carolyn Wells · poetry
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The Seven Seas
Rudyard Kipling · poetry
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The Shadow-Eater
Benjamin De Casseres · poetry
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The Shepheard's Calender: Twelve Aeglogues Proportionable to the Twelve Monethes
Edmund Spenser · poetry
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The Shih King, or, Book of Poetry
James Legge · poetry
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The Ship in the Desert
Joaquin Miller · poetry
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The Ship of Fools, Volume 1
Sebastian Brant · poetry
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The shipwreck
William Falconer · poetry