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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;The pure contralto sings in the organ loft&#039; from Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Abecedarian Poem]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;Fire Dreams&#039; from Cornhuskers by Carl Sandburg]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Love Poems]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A collection of classic love poems by Christopher Marlowe, William Shakespeare, John Donne, Anne Bradstreet, Andrew Marvell, Robert Burns, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Elizabeth Barrett Browning &amp; William Butler Yeats.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[&#039;An Acrostic&#039; by Edgar Allan Poe]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Put Together a Manuscript]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A simple step-by-step outline to help you gather your poems in manuscript form for submission to publishers or publication contests, transforming your sheaf of assorted poems into a book manuscript.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;The Thanksgivings&#039; translated from a traditional Iroquois song by Harriet Maxwell Converse]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA['The Thanksgivings' translated from a traditional Iroquois song by Harriet Maxwell Converse (1908)]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;Thanksgiving&#039; by Ella Wheeler Wilcox]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Glossary of Poetic Forms]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;One Day is there of the Series&#039; (#814) by Emily Dickinson]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Walt Whitman]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems for Thanksgiving Day]]></title>
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         <description><![CDATA[A selection of American poems for Thanksgiving Day, including a translation of a traditional Iroquois song by Harriet Maxwell Converse and classic poems by Lydia Maria Child, John Greenleaf Whittier, Kate Seymour Maclean, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, Emily Dickinson, Walt Whitman, Paul Lawrence Dunbar, Thornton W. Burgess and Carl Sandburg.]]></description>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;Ceremonies for Christmas&#039; by Robert Herrick (1648)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Thanksgiving Poems: &#039;Over the River and Through the Wood&#039; by Lydia Maria Child]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Terza Rima]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;Christmas Carol&#039; (1911) by Sara Teasdale]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Christmas Poems: &#039;The Magi&#039; by William Butler Yeats (1916)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Poems of War: &#039;Look Down, Fair Moon&#039; &amp; &#039;When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom&#039;d&#039; by Walt Whitman (1900)]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Library: Wordsworth Poems]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Winter Poems: &#039;Blizzard&#039; &amp; &#039;Sweet and Bitter&#039; by Barbara Reiher-Meyers]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[William Blake]]></title>
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         <title><![CDATA[Collections of Love Poems]]></title>
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