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William Blake
Francis Bourdillon
Anne Bradstreet
Elizabeth Browning
Robert Browning
Robert Burns
Lord Byron
Thomas Campbell
Bliss Carman
John Clare
Samuel Coleridge
Samuel Daniel
Emily Dickinson
John Donne
William Douglas
Michael Drayton
Anne Finch
Stephen Foster
Robert Frost
Robert Herrick
Leigh Hunt
Omar Khayyam
Benjamin Jonson
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John
Greenleaf Whittier
(1819-1892)
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American poet, John Greenleaf Whittier was born near Haverhill,
Massachusetts. He began his career by writing articles for abolitionist William
Lloyd Garrison, editor of the Free Press newspaper in Newburyport,
Massachusetts and enjoyed a long career as contributing editor, essayist, and
poet. A devout Quaker, he's often called the "Quaker poet."
He served in the Massachusetts legislature, and was founder of the Liberty party
in 1839, and participated in the founding of the Republican party in 1854.
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My Lady
A poem about vowing love to a special lady. Send this poem to the
woman you love and be her knight in shining armor.
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Richard Lovelace
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Caroline Norton
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Daniel Rossetti
John Ruskin
Shakespeare
Percy Shelley
Philip Sidney
Edmund Spenser
C. A. Swinburne
Joshua Sylvester
Walt Whitman
J. G. Whittier
John Wilbye
W. Wordsworth
William B. Yeats
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