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A Tropical Horror

William Hope Hodgson

January 6, 2023

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28:31

Midnight Speculations

Mortimer Collins

January 2, 2023

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4:15

Address to the United Nations

Haile Selassie

December 30, 2022

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20:29

Death Be Not Proud

John Donne

December 26, 2022

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2:45

The Role of Sex in the Evolution of Mind

Samuel Jackson Holmes

December 23, 2022

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10:42

The Wife of Flanders

G. K. Chesterton

December 19, 2022

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3:33

In Event of Moon Disaster

William Safire

December 16, 2022

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04:04

Greater Love

Wilfred Owen

December 12, 2022

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02:57

With Husky Haughty Lips, O Sea!

Walt Whitman

December 5, 2022

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03:20

A Fable

Mark Twain

December 2, 2022

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06:36

Athanasia

Oscar Wilde

November 28, 2022

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05:04

The Color of Flowers

August Vogel

November 25, 2022

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15:06

The Hour

James Bernard Fagan

November 21, 2022

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02:53

The Brontosaurus

Mark Twain

November 18, 2022

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04:36

To The Queen

Alfred, Lord Tennyson

November 14, 2022

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03:20

Telegram to President Truman

Joseph McCarthy

November 11, 2022

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04:57

Waste Land

Madison Cawein

November 7, 2022

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03:27

The Poem of Imru’ al-Qais

Imru’ al-Qais

November 4, 2022

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12:30

A Plea For Freedom of Speech in Boston

Frederick Douglass

October 28, 2022

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09:15

The Song of Chess

Abraham Ibn Ezra

October 24, 2022

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04:45

Kerensky, The Fighting Flea

Ernest Hemingway

October 21, 2022

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06:45

The Sentry

Wilfred Owen

October 17, 2022

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04:16

How to Signal to Mars

Nikola Tesla

October 14, 2022

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17:23

Dream and the Song

James David Corrothers

October 10, 2022

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03:11

Speech from the Throne at the Opening of the Reichstag

Kaiser Wilhelm II

October 7, 2022

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08:39

The Sunne Rising

John Donne

October 3, 2022

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03:32

Silence - A Fable

Edgar Allan Poe

September 30, 2022

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11:19

Burning Drift-Wood

John Greenleaf Whittier

September 26, 2022

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06:07

The Magnetic Telegraph

Anonymous

September 23, 2022

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05:41

The Thorn

William Wordsworth

September 19, 2022

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12:28

Alcesimarchus’ Soliloquy

Titus Maccius Plautus

September 16, 2022

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04:02

Florante’s Lament

Francisco Balagtas

September 12, 2022

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04:34

Letter to John Taylor

John Adams

September 9, 2022

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08:15

The Picket Guard

Ethel Lynn Beers

September 5, 2022

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03:49

The Mouse and the Lion

Aesop

September 2, 2022

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02:47

The Willing Mistriss

Aphra Behn

August 29, 2022

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02:38

Letter to Walt Whitman

Bram Stoker

August 26, 2022

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04:17

The Place Where the Rainbow Ends

Paul Laurence Dunbar

August 22, 2022

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02:50

The Common Laborer

Eugene Debs

August 19, 2022

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09:25

Apostate Will

Thomas Chatterton

August 15, 2022

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04:15

Einstein-Szilard Letter

Leo Szilard

August 12, 2022

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05:33

All Is Vanity, Saith The Preacher

Lord Byron

August 8, 2022

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02:33

Disapproving and Accepting the Constitution

Benjamin Franklin

August 5, 2022

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06:10

The Flea

John Donne

August 1, 2022

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03:16

The Reaper and the Flowers

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

July 29, 2022

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02:52

My Old Coat

Mortimer Collins

July 25, 2022

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03:29

The Man He Killed

Thomas Hardy

July 18, 2022

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02:26

Jaques’ Monologue

William Shakespeare

July 15, 2022

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04:03

The Donkey

G. K. Chesterton

July 11, 2022

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02:19

Letter to the Editor

H. P. Lovecraft

July 8, 2022

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04:14

Individuality

Henry Wilmarth Hazzen

July 7, 2022

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02:26

Manifesto of January 5, 1899

Emilio Aguinaldo

July 6, 2022

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04:11

Remembrance

Emily Brontë

July 5, 2022

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03:32

The Clockmaker

Robert Louis Stevenson

July 4, 2022

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11:09

Dulce et decorum Est

Wilfred Owen

July 3, 2022

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03:29

From Philadelphia

Mark Twain

July 2, 2022

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05:25

Apologia

Oscar Wilde

July 1, 2022

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03:47

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