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Poetry

As you probably assume, this is just a little section for me to put my favorite poems.  I am by no means a poetry connoisseur (I pretty much just know poetry that I've had to read for school or Academic Decathlon), but I have stumbled upon a few poems that I think are worthy of my exaltation.  So while this section will probably be updated either rarely or never, at least I have a spot to throw in any brilliant poems I come across in the future.  And just so you know, these aren't links to other pages.  I have made a page for each of the poets (because I will presumably add more than one poem for each poet) with the poem texts as they originally appeared.  And to begin, I picked an arbitrary number of poems I have recently enjoyed. 

Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Kubla Khan & The Rime of the Ancient Mariner

E.E. Cummings' "next to of course god america i

Robert Frost's Birches & Fire and Ice

Langston Hughes' I, Too

James Joyce's XXXVI from Chamber Music

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's Paul Revere's Ride

Carl Sandburg's Grass

William Shakespeare's Sonnet 29

Derek Walcott's A Far Cry From Africa

Walt Whitman's Song of Myself

William Carlos Williams' The Red Wheelbarrow

William Wordsworth's Tintern Abbey

Lastly, here's a link to some of my favorite song lyrics. 

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