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Poetry – The Mystic Blue

The Mystic Blue D.H. Lawrence (1916)   Out of the darkness, fretted sometimes in its sleeping, Jets of sparks in fountains of blue come leaping To sight, revealing a secret, numberless secrets keeping.   Sometimes…



Poetry about the Sea. "O captain! My Captain!" Walt Whitman

Poetry – O Captain! My Captain!

O Captain! My Captain! Walt Whitman (from Leaves of Grass, 1867 edition, first published in Saturday Press, New York, 1865) O CAPTAIN! my Captain! our fearful trip is done; The ship has weather’d every rack, the prize…