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William Shakespeare

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American Poetry, 1922: A Miscellany

Robert Frost et al.

Poems 1918-21, Including Three Portraits and Four Cantos

Ezra Pound

Poems by Walt Whitman

Walt Whitman

Shakespeare's Sonnets

William Shakespeare

The Complete Poetical Works of Edgar Allan Poe

Edgar Allan Poe

Responsibilities, and other poems

W. B. Yeats

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Stephen Maria Crane

Tradition, thou art for suckling children

Tradition, thou art for suckling children, Thou art the enlivening milk for babes; But no meat for men is in thee. Then — But, alas, we all are babes.

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"The Goodreads of poetry"

"the Letterboxd of poetry"

"I can read poetry from the future"

"I don't know how to use a computer"

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Follow your Friends!

Write your own Poetry

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Free poetry books for users

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Stephen Maria Crane

Tradition, thou art for suckling children

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