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Poem
By Walt Whitman
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I celebrate myself, and sing myself,
And what I assume you shall assume,
For every atom belonging to me as good belongs to you.
I loafe and invite my soul,
I lean and loafe at my ease observing a spear of summer grass.
My tongue, every atom of my blood, form’d from this soil, this air...
Poem
By Li-Young Lee
In the steamer is the trout seasoned with slivers of ginger, two sprigs of green onion, and sesame oil...
Poem
By Phillis Wheatley
O thou bright jewel in my aim I strive To comprehend thee. Thine own words declare Wisdom is higher ...
Poem
By Edward Lear
When awful darkness and silence reign Over the great Gromboolian plain, Through the long, long wintry...
Poem
By Robert Louis Stevenson
In winter I get up at night
And dress by yellow candle-light.
In summer, quite the other way,
I have to go to bed by day.
I have to go to bed and see
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Or hear the grown-up people's feet
Still going past me in the street...
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Learning PromptStretch your mind to think about what the earth looked like before people lived in it. What did the earth beneath your bed look like? What wildness grew, and who roamed through it before people claimed...
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