In Honor of Emily Dickinson’s Birthday This Week
A poem: I heard a Fly buzz (465) I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – The Stillness in the Room Was like the Stillness in the Air – Between the Heaves of Storm – The Eyes around – had wrung them dry...
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Since it’s Harvard week here at the Boston Book Blog, we’ll take a look today at the life of master lyric poet – and Harvard professor – Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. Listen my children and you shall...
View ArticleThrowback Thursday: Whitman’s “A Boston Ballad”
To get betimes in Boston town I rose this morning early, Here’s a good place at the corner, I must stand and see the show. Clear the way there Jonathan! Way for the President’s marshal–way for the...
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