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• A Broadway Pageant
  By Walt Whitman

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  Excerpt: Over the western sea, hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, ...
• Still I Rise
  By Maya Angelou

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  Excerpt: You may write me down in history With your bitter, twisted lies, You may trod me in the very dirt But still, like dust, I'll rise. Does my ...
• Fame is a bee.
  By Emily Dickinson

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  Excerpt: Fame is a bee. It has a song -- It has a sting -- Ah, too, it has a ...
• When I Love
  By Nizar Qabbani

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  Excerpt: When I love I feel that I am the king of time I possess the earth and everything on it and ride into the sun upon my horse. When I love I become ...
• A Code Of Morals
  By Rudyard Kipling

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  Excerpt: Lest you should think this story true I merely mention I Evolved it lately. 'Tis a most Unmitigated misstatement. Now Jones had left his new-wed ...