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Episode 105: The Wedding Day
Fireside Poems 7/20/22 Fireside Poems 7/20/22

Episode 105: The Wedding Day

Love immortal and young in the endless succession of lovers . . . .

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Episode 104: Milton and Keats
Fireside Poems 7/13/22 Fireside Poems 7/13/22

Episode 104: Milton and Keats

The young Endymion sleeps Endymion’s sleep . . .

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Episode 103: Chaucer and Shakespeare
Fireside Poems 7/6/22 Fireside Poems 7/6/22

Episode 103: Chaucer and Shakespeare

He is the poet of the dawn . . . .

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Episode 102: Telling the Bees
Fireside Poems 6/29/22 Fireside Poems 6/29/22

Episode 102: Telling the Bees

Since we parted, a month had passed—

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Episode 101: The Revenge of Rain-in-the-Face
Fireside Poems 6/22/22 Fireside Poems 6/22/22

Episode 101: The Revenge of Rain-in-the-Face

Whose was the right and the wrong?

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Episode 100: Helen of Tyre
Fireside Poems 6/15/22 Fireside Poems 6/15/22

Episode 100: Helen of Tyre

A woman of cloud and fire . . .

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Episode 99: fromUnder the Willows
Fireside Poems 6/8/22 Fireside Poems 6/8/22

Episode 99: fromUnder the Willows

But I in June am midway to believe/A tree among my fair progenitors.

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Episode 98: Curfew
Fireside Poems 6/1/22 Fireside Poems 6/1/22

Episode 98: Curfew

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Episode 97: Killed at the Ford
Fireside Poems 5/25/22 Fireside Poems 5/25/22

Episode 97: Killed at the Ford

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Episode 96: Hawthorne
Fireside Poems 5/18/22 Fireside Poems 5/18/22

Episode 96: Hawthorne

. . . a dream within a dream . . .

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Episode 95: A Spectre of Terror
Fireside Poems 5/11/22 Fireside Poems 5/11/22

Episode 95: A Spectre of Terror

Only Priscilla averted her face from the spectre of terror . . . .

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Episode 94: The Yellow Violet
Fireside Poems 5/4/22 Fireside Poems 5/4/22

Episode 94: The Yellow Violet

I have seen thee blossoming/Beside the snow-bank’s edges cold.

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Episode 93: Two Night Sea Poems
Fireside Poems 4/27/22 Fireside Poems 4/27/22

Episode 93: Two Night Sea Poems

. . . a mere rush of foam/On the great sea beneath a sinking keel.

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Episode 92: Paul Revere’s Ride
Fireside Poems 4/20/22 Fireside Poems 4/20/22

Episode 92: Paul Revere’s Ride

A cry of defiance, and not of fear . . . .

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Episode 91: from The Cathedral 2
Fireside Poems 4/13/22 Fireside Poems 4/13/22

Episode 91: from The Cathedral 2

This backwoods Charlemagne of empires new . . .

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Episode 90: from The Cathedral 1
Fireside Poems 4/6/22 Fireside Poems 4/6/22

Episode 90: from The Cathedral 1

‘Tis irrecoverable, that ancient faith . . .

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Episode 89: A Dutch Picture
Fireside Poems 3/30/22 Fireside Poems 3/30/22

Episode 89: A Dutch Picture

And they talk of ventures lost or won . . . .

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Episode 88: The Occultation of Orion
Fireside Poems 3/23/22 Fireside Poems 3/23/22

Episode 88: The Occultation of Orion

Forevermore, forevermore, the reign of violence is o’er!

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Episode 87: Priscilla (from The Courtship of Miles Standish)
Fireside Poems 3/16/22 Fireside Poems 3/16/22

Episode 87: Priscilla (from The Courtship of Miles Standish)

This is not right, is not just, is not true to the best that is in you.

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Episode 86: Twilight
Fireside Poems 3/9/22 Fireside Poems 3/9/22

Episode 86: Twilight

A little face at the window peers out into the night . . .

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