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Because I Could Not Stop for Death by Emily Dickinson

Posted on December 2, 2018 by emmasrandomthoughts

Because I could not stop for Death — He kindly stopped for me — The Carriage held but just Ourselves — And Immortality. We slowly drove — He knew no haste And I had put away My labor and my … Continue reading →

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Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night by Walt Whitman

Posted on November 23, 2018 by emmasrandomthoughts

Vigil strange I kept on the field one night; When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day, One look I but gave which your dear eyes return’d with a look I shall never forget, One … Continue reading →

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100th Armistice Day

Posted on November 11, 2018 by emmasrandomthoughts

Today is the 100th anniversary of Armistice Day, the end of the First World War.  Instead of posting music or artwork, I’ve decided to post clips of All Quiet On the Western Front and poetry from the war. Here is … Continue reading →

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Oh! Weep for Those by Lord Byron

Posted on July 9, 2015 by emmasrandomthoughts

I. Oh! Weep for those that wept by Babel’s stream, Whose shrines are desolate, whose land a dream, Weep for the harp of Judah’s broken shell– Mourn — where their God that dwelt–the Godless dwell! II. And where shall Israel … Continue reading →

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The Raven By Edgar Allen Poe

Posted on March 21, 2015 by emmasrandomthoughts

Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, Over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping, rapping at my … Continue reading →

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A Dream, After Reading Dante’s Episode of Paolo and Francesca by John Keats

Posted on March 2, 2015 by emmasrandomthoughts

As Hermes once took to his feathers light, When lulled Argus, baffled, swooned and slept, So on a Delphic reed, my idle spright So played, so charmed, so conquered, so bereft The dragon-world of all its hundred eyes; And seeing … Continue reading →

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In a Station of the Metro by Ezra Pound

Posted on January 10, 2015 by emmasrandomthoughts

THE apparition of these faces in the crowd; Petals on a wet, black bough.

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“Hymn to the Evening” by Phillis Wheatley

Posted on November 23, 2014 by emmasrandomthoughts

Phillis Wheatley was the first African American woman to become a published poet. Born in Senegal in the mid-eighteenth century, she was brought on a slave ship to Boston, where she was purchased as a slave. (Yes Virginia, they did … Continue reading →

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Ozymandias by Percy Bysshe Shelley

Posted on November 15, 2014 by emmasrandomthoughts

I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert. Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of … Continue reading →

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You Men By Sr. Juana Ines De La Cruz

Posted on October 20, 2014 by emmasrandomthoughts

A few months back, I posted a poem by Anne Bradstreet, the first poet of America, and mentioned how cool it was that the first poet of America was a woman. As fate would have it, the first poet of … Continue reading →

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