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Poems of the day

• Holy Sonnet X:Death be not proud by John Donne 14 lines, 3 comments
• A January Morning by Archibald Lampman 14 lines, 3 comments
• Inspiration by Robert W Service 34 lines, 0 comment
• Twelve O'Clock by Rabindranath Tagore 12 lines, 3 comments

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• Christmas Time by JS, from I-Like-Rhymes
  Not everyone celebrates Christmas but for most it is still a time of festivity. Here are a few poetic examples of the season through the eyes of various writers.

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  I-Like-Rhymes
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  on Years Of The Modern by Walt Whitman, 41 minutes ago

  "What historic denouements are these we so rapidly approach?"
  "—Never were such sharp questions ask'd as this day;
  Never was average man, his soul, more energetic, more like a God;"
  A lot of the questions Whitman asked over 100 years ago could be asked again this month.
  
  
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  on Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe, 1 hour ago

  i read this poem once before...it struck me with a lose feeling. i felt empty and uncomplete in my life...it is weird to get that from such a beautiful poem...but it came...and is still there somewhere deep inside me...
  i read to get inspired. i am inspired by what i read, feel, and by my own life...(sorry lost train of thought for a second) i wonder what was going through his head when he wrote this poem...what inspried him to write it..tis a lovely poem as all his poems are to me.
  
  "For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
  Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
  And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
  Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
  And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
  Of my darling- my darling- my life and my bride,
  In the sepulchre there by the sea,
  In her tomb by the sounding sea."
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  on The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe, 1 hour ago

  a desturbing poem but i can see that the character was driven mad by the darckness and being alone. we read this poem in my lit. class and i read it when i am alone and feeling well..open minded as i am always. i enjoy the darckness alot but i also enjoy my sanity. i have been known to lose my sanity when i am acctually alone in the "large" house when it is late at night and the only sound i can hear is the beating of my own heart.
  
  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 chamber door.
  "'Tis some visitor," I muttered, "tapping at my chamber door-
  Only this, and nothing more."
  

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• Social: i like the transendetalists...well i like mostly Ralph Waldo by BellaSavannahCullen
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