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Engraving of Petrarch wearing a laurel wreath and a robe, holding a closed book in his left hand. Engraved portrait of Francesco Petrarca, known as Petrarch, shown in profile wearing a hooded robe.
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Illustration of "The Lamb" from "Songs of Innocence" by William Blake, 1879. poem; poetry
A Study of Poetry
4:043 Dickinson, Emily: A Life of Letters, This is my letter to the world/That never wrote to me; I'll tell you how the Sun Rose/A Ribbon at a time; Hope is the thing with feathers/That perches in the soul
Famous Poets and Poetic Form
Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) only confirmed photograph of Emily Dickinson. 1978 scan of a Daguerreotype. ca. 1847; in the Amherst College Archives. American poet. See Notes:
Poetry: First Lines
Beginning of the old English poem, Beowulf, believed to have been composed between 700 and 750. (Old English literature)
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  • Desire
    A short cut to riches is to subtract from our desires.Petrarch: Epistolae de Rebus Familiaribus