Category: Author Bios
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Christina Georgina Rossetti
Christina Georgina Rossetti, a 19th-century poet, is celebrated for her heartfelt poetry inspired by nature and faith, influencing many.
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Uphill By Christina Georgina Rossetti
Uphill By Christina Georgina Rossetti Does the road wind uphill all the way? Yes, to the very end. Will the day’s journey take the whole long day? From morn to night, my friend. But is there for the night a resting-place? A roof for when the slow dark hours begin. May not the darkness hide…
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Summer By Christina Georgina Rossetti
Summer By Christina Georgina Rossetti Winter is cold-hearted,Spring is yea and nay,Autumn is a weathercockBlown every way:Summer days for meWhen every leaf is on its tree; When Robin’s not a beggar,And Jenny Wren’s a bride,And larks hang singing, singing, singing,Over the wheat-fields wide,And anchored lilies ride,And the pendulum spiderSwings from side to side, And blue-black…
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Signs of Spring by Mary Austin
Signs of Spring Cream-cups, butter-cups, Dandelions and sedges; Blackbirds in the poplar row, Sparrows in the hedges; Fruit-buds in the orchard Swelling with the rain; All the close-fed pasture-lands Growing green again. Poppies on the river-bluff Soon will wake from sleeping; Home along the foothills Woolly clouds a-creeping.
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Winter Turning
Winter Turning By Amy Lowell Snow is still on the ground,But there is a golden brightness in the air.Across the river,Blue,Blue, Sweeping widely under the archesOf many bridges,Is a spire and a dome,Clear as though ringed with ice-flakes,Golden, and pink, and jocund. On a near-by steeple,A golden weather-cock flashes smartly,His open beak “Cock-a-doodle-dooing”Straight at the…
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The Life and Legacy of Emily Dickinson
Birth and Family Background Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born at her family’s home in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830. Her family was important in the town, although they were not extremely wealthy. Her father, Edward Dickinson, was a respected lawyer and served as a trustee at Amherst College. Emily’s ancestors had arrived in America…
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The seedling By Paul Laurence Dunbar
By Paul Laurence Dunbar 1. As a quiet little seedlingLay within its darksome bed,To itself it fell a-talking,And this is what it said: 2. “I am not so very robust,But I’ll do the best I can;”And the seedling from that momentIts work of life began. 3. So it pushed a little leafletUp into the light…
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William Blake
William Blake was born in London on November 28, 1757, the third of seven children. His father, James, worked as a hosier, selling socks and stockings. Blake attended school just long enough to learn to read and write before continuing his education at home under the guidance of his mother, Catherine Blake. In 1781, William…
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Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was born in 1807 in Portland, Maine. His ancestors included pilgrims who sailed from England to America on the Mayflower, and his grandfather was both a general in the American Revolutionary War and a congressman. Longfellow was a kind-hearted boy who always tried to do the right thing. After shooting a robin,…
