by T. S. Eliot The Naming of Cats is a difficult matter, It isn’t just one of your holiday games; You may think at first I’m as mad as a hatter When I tell you, a cat must have THREE DIFFERENT NAMES. First of all, there’s the name that the family use daily, Such as
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Brand New Ancients On Film
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Read on »A Brave and Startling Truth – Maya Angelou
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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Via wikipedia: Beasts of battle: The Beasts of battle is a poetic trope in Old English and Old Norse literature. It consists of the wolf, the raven, and the eagle, traditional animals accompanying the warriors to feast on the bodies of the slain. It occurs in eight Old English poems and in the Old Norse
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Excellent.
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Maya Angelou You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I’ll rise. Does my sassiness upset you? Why are you beset with gloom? ‘Cause I walk like I’ve got oil wells Pumping in my living room. Just like moons
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The Chaos
by Gerard Nolst Trenité Dearest creature in creation Studying English pronunciation, I will teach you in my verse Sounds like corpse, corps, horse and worse. I will keep you, Susy, busy, Make your head with heat grow dizzy; Tear in eye, your dress you’ll tear; Queer, fair seer, hear my prayer. Pray, console your loving
Read on »Democracy by Langston Hughes
Democracy will not come Today, this year Nor ever Through compromise and fear. I have as much right As the other fellow has To stand On my two feet And own the land. I tire so of hearing people say, Let things take their course. Tomorrow is another day. I do not need my freedom
Read on »The Second Coming — W. B Yeats
From the Book: The Collected Poems of William Butler Yeats TURNING and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction,
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William Ernest Henley
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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.
Read on »Dr. Seuss Explains Computers
Author Unknown If a packet hits a pocket on a socket on a port, and the bus is interrupted as a very last resort, and the address of the memory makes your floppy disk abort, then the socket packet pocket has an error to report. If your cursor finds a menu item followed by a
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Author unknown, (to the tune of "What a Wonderful World" by Sam Cooke
Read on »The End of the Raven (by Edgar Allen Poe’s Cat)
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
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Author Unknown
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Maya Angelou
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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
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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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