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Billy Collins, former US Poet Laureate and one of America's best-selling poets, reads his poem "The Best Cigarette" with animation by David Vaio of FAD.
Noted for their intelligent humor,...
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"A Dream Within A Dream" is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe, first published in 1849. The poem is 24 lines, divided into two stanzas. The poem questions the way one can distinguish between...
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(Horatian Ode in Iambic Pentameter with ababcdecde Rhyme Scheme)
The tranquillity of valley hills,
Allows the mind to wander like the clouds,
Above the tree tops with their...
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White stone upon stone,
turret opposite turret,
tower with a narrow front
that peaks through the ivy,
a castle that looks at the sky
like one looking for a dream,
solitude still and quiet
that...
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The silence made friends with the night,
hugging it
like a brooch
in a piece of cloth.
It told the stars that shined in its neckline
and gently,
one by one,
it began to conceal their glitter...
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In this sonnet, the persona reflects on sadness as seen on the faces of people in the crowd. The couplet of this Shakespearean sonnet introduces an unexpected sharp thematic or imagistic "turn"....
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