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| 1941. | The Widow's Party by Rudyard Kipling | | "Where have you been this while away,
Johnnie, Johnnie?"
'Long with the rest on a picnic lay,
Johnnie, my Johnnie, aha!
They called us out... |
| 1942. | The Wishing-Caps by Rudyard Kipling | | Life's all getting and giving,
I've only myself to give.
What shall I do for a living?
I've only one l... |
| 1943. | With Scindia to Delphi by Rudyard Kipling | | More than a hundred years ago, in a great battle fought near Delhi,
an Indian Prince rode fifty miles after the day was lost
with a beggar-girl, who... |
| 1944. | Sympathy by Paul Laurence Dunbar | | I know what the caged bird feels, alas!
When the sun is bright on the upland slopes;
When the wind stirs soft through the springing grass,
And t... |
| 1945. | Ships that Pass in the Night by Paul Laurence Dunbar | | Out in the sky the great dark clouds are massing;
I look far out into the pregnant night,
Where I can hear the solemn booming gun
And catch the gl... |
| 1946. | The Paradox by Paul Laurence Dunbar | | I am the mother of sorrows,
I am the ender of grief;
I am the bud and the blossom,
I am the late-falling leaf.
I am thy priest and thy poet, ... |
| 1947. | The Unlucky Apple by Paul Laurence Dunbar | | 'Twas the apple that in Eden
Caused our father's primal fall;
And the Trojan War, remember --
'Twas an apple caused it all.
So for weeks I've ... |
| 1948. | When de Co'n Pone's Hot by Paul Laurence Dunbar | | Dey is times in life when Nature
Seems to slip a cog an' go,
Jes' a-rattlin' down creation,
Lak an ocean's overflow;
When de worl' jes' stahts a-... |
| 1949. | Poetry by Marianne Moore | | I, too, dislike it: there are things that are important beyond all
this fiddle.
Reading it, however, with a perfect contempt for it, one
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| 1950. | The Pangolin by Marianne Moore | | Another armored animal--scale
lapping scale with spruce-cone regularity until they
form the uninterrupted central
tail-row! This near artich... |
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