NY Times: Maya Angelou, Lyrical Witness of the Jim Crow South, Dies at 86 We, this people, on a small and lonely planet Traveling through casual space Past aloof stars, across the way of indifferent suns To a destination where all signs tell us It is possible and imperative that we learn A brave and
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‘Twas the Night Before Christmas: Internet Version
Author Unknown ‘Twas the night before Christmas, and throughout the net, not a modem was chirping; (It wasn’t mail-hour yet). The peripherals down and backed up with care, In hopes that St. Echo soon would be there. The grad students home all snug in their beds, with hi-res dreams abuzz in their heads. We Sysops
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by Jim Trudeau & Jay Trudeau (1991) ‘Twas the night before Christmas and all through the nets Not a mousie was stirring, not even the pets. The floppies were stacked by the modem with care In hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there. The files were nestled all snug in a folder The screen
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‘Twas the night before Christmas and Santa’s a wreck… How to live in a world that’s politically correct?
Read on »Invictus
William Ernest Henley
Read on »Invictus
Oh holy crap. Timothy McVeigh decided to release as his “final words” before execution the poem “Invictus” which I’ve had on my website in my favorite poem section for five years. I come up at the top of some search engines, so I’ve had almost two hundred thousand hits on this page since this afternoon.
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Henry Beard, From The Book: Poetry for Cats
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Author Unknown, A Parody of “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe
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Edgar Allen Poe, Complete Stories and Poems of Edgar Allan Poe
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Percy Bysshe Shelley
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William Butler Yeats
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Emma Lazarus
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Edna St. Vincent Millay
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By Alfred Noyes
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Elsa Gidlow
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National Lampoon Radio Dinner Album
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Max Ehrmann
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George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Lewis Carroll, Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
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From the Book: Portable Dorothy Parker
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from Lisa
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May 1994, Oriah Mountain Dreamer
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Andrew Marvell
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George Withers
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from Lisa
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Amy Lowell
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Amy Lowell
Read on »Seuss on Clinton – extended remix
If Dr. Seuss were President Clinton’s lawyer, his deposition might have read something like this. I did not do it in a car I did not do it in a bar I did not do it in the dark I did not do it in the park I did not do it on a date
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Author Unknown
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Maya Angelou
Read on »Clone of My Own (Song Parody)
The first verse and chorus are by science fiction writer Randall Garrett. The other verses are by Isaac Asimov. This parody is to be sung to the tune of Home on the Range. Oh, give me a clone Of my own flesh and bone With its Y-chromosome changed to X And when it is grown
Read on »The Prophet "on Marriage"
Khalil Gibran
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Christopher Marlowe – 1599
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Rudyard Kipling
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Amy Lowell
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William Shakespeare
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The Complete Poems of Stephen Crane
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Truman Capote
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Author Unknown
Read on »She Walks In Beauty
George Gordon, Lord Byron
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Sonnets from the Portuguese
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Katherine Bradley and Edith Cooper
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Edgar Allan Poe
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Author Unknown
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