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  A Rhyme A Dozen ― The Wind - 12...

  William Shakespeare, Percy...

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  ‘A dime a dozen’ as known in America, is perhaps equal to the English ‘cheap as chips’ but whatever the lingua franca of your choice in this series we hereby submit ‘A Rhyme a Dozen’ as 12 poems on many given subjects that are a well-rounded gathering, maybe even an essential guide, from the knowing pens of classic poets and their beautifully spoken verse to the comfort of your ears. 
  1 - A Rhyme a Dozen - 12 Poets, 12 Poems, 1 Topic.  Wind - An Introduction 
  2 - Blow Blow Thou Winter Wind by William Shakespeare 
  3 - Ode to the West Wind by Percy Bysshe Shelley 
  4 - Who Has Seen the Wind by Christina Rossetti 
  5 - Summer Wind by William Cullen Bryant 
  6 - North Wind in October by Robert Seymour Bridges 
  7 - Some Too Fragile for Winter Winds by Emily Dickinson 
  8 - The Wind That Shakes the Barley by Katharine Tynan 
  9 - Windy Nights by Robert Louis Stevenson 
  10 - Wind Over the Sea by Geoffrey Bache Smith 
  11 - The Winds of Fate by Ella Wheeler Wilcox 
  12 - The Wind's Lament by John Morris-Jones 
  13 - Subway Wind by Claude McKay

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  The Ballad of Reading Gaol

  Oscar Wilde

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  Wilde’s meditation on capital punishment, the Ballad of Reading Gaol comes after he was convicted and imprisoned under charges of gross indecency. The charges stemmed from his affair with Lord Alfred Douglas, the son of the Marquis of Queensberry. It relates the story of an execution of a man who murdered his wife which Wilde witnessed during his internment. Published in 1898, it was Wilde’s last published poem as he would die in 1900 from cerebral menengitis, caused by syphilis.(Summary by John Gonzalez)

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  Troilus and Criseyde

  Geoffrey Chaucer

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  Troilus and Criseyde is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer which re-tells in Middle English the tragic story of the lovers Troilus and Criseyde set against a backdrop of war in the Siege of Troy. It was composed using rime royale and probably completed during the mid 1380s. Many Chaucer scholars regard it as the poet's finest work. As a finished long poem it is certainly more self-contained than the better known but ultimately uncompleted Canterbury Tales. Criseyde, the daughter of the seer Calchas, lives alone in Troy after her father abandons the Trojans to help the Greeks. Eventually she catches the eye of Troilus, a man who had previously scoffed at love, and becomes the object of his overwhelming desire. With the help of Criseyde’s uncle Pandarus he wins her love but soon loses it when the Greeks and the Trojans conduct an exchange of prisoners. Calchas, who knows of Troy’s imminent destruction, persuades the Greeks to exchange Antenor for his daughter and thus saves her from the doomed city. Criseyde promises Troilus that she’ll return to him after ten days but once she’s back in the care of her father she realizes the impossibility of her promise. Resigned to her fate, Criseyde yields to the flirtations of Diomedes, and her love for Troilus fades. When Deiphobus wins the armor of Diomedes, Troilus discovers a brooch he gave Criseyde upon her departure pinned to it. Heartbroken, he tries to find Diomedes and take his revenge during battle but after slaying many is in his turn killed by Achilles. As his spirit goes to heaven he reflects on the absurdity of all life itself. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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  Wichita US Marshall

  Jedediah Ravine

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  Set in the 1880’s A story  of a United States Marshall’s struggle between justice and vengeanceAnd the unintended consequences on the people he meets along the trail.Plenty of Wild West actionHeartwarming stories of friendships and loveColorful characters both young and old.A western story in the spirit of classic westerns like Shane, Lonesome Dove, and The LawmanIt’s like you were thereYou’ll listen again and again.

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  Ethereal Enchantment - Poetry...

  Rachel Lawson

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  a collection of nice poems by an Allpoetry.com poet Rachel Lawson read by her.

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  A Generous Latitude - Poems

  Lenea Grace

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  Lenea Grace’s debut collection maps a series of relationships within a greater exploration of Canadiana, barreling through shield and crag, river and slag. A Generous Latitude is not afraid of beer, bears, internal rhyme, David Hasselhoff, sediment, or sentiment. It does, however, eschew sliding down lampposts, CBC sitcoms, McGarrigles, and the sentimental. Taking humor in the human condition, A Generous Latitude toys with juxtapositions of the serious with the silly, the irreverent with more somber realities. Music both teases and generates the poems within the collection. Here, Guy Lafleur’s hockey-disco hybrid album is on par with the Righteous Brothers and Fleetwood Mac. Here, “I’m not smoking and it’s not analog, / but at 2 a.m., it is always 1979.” A Generous Latitude takes a wild, peculiar joy in supplanting the expected with rich imagery that lights the mundane and “strips the Atlantic bare.”

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