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  2. The Falling Leaves - Wikipedia

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    The Falling Leaves is a poem written by Margaret Postgate-Cole (1893–1980) in November 1915 about World War I. [1] Cole was an English atheist, feminist, pacifist, and socialist; her pacifist views influenced her poetry. Her brother was jailed for refusing to obey conscription. She wrote poems about World War I and against the government.

  3. The Orange Tree - Wikipedia

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    The Orange Tree at Wikisource " The Orange Tree " is a poem by Australian poet John Shaw Neilson . [ 1 ] It was first published in The Bookfellow on 15 February 1921, and later in the poet's collections and other Australian poetry anthologies.

  4. The Goose and the Common - Wikipedia

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    Satirical print from 1830 depicting a goose lamenting the loss of the Commons to Prime Minister Sir Robert Peel, 1st Baronet, a Duke and King William IV. "The Goose and the Common", also referred to as "Stealing the Common from the Goose", is a poem written by an unknown author that makes a social commentary on the social injustice caused by the privatization of common land during the ...

  5. Mending Wall - Wikipedia

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    Frost composed the poem at his farm in Derry, New Hampshire; his home from 1901 to 1911 "Mending Wall" is a poem by Robert Frost.It opens Robert's second collection of poetry, North of Boston, [1] published in 1914 by David Nutt, and has become "one of the most anthologized and analyzed poems in modern literature".

  6. Down by the Salley Gardens - Wikipedia

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    She bid me take love easy, as the leaves grow on the tree; But I, being young and foolish, with her would not agree. In a field by the river my love and I did stand, And on my leaning shoulder she laid her snow-white hand. She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs; But I was young and foolish, and now am full of tears. [5] [6]

  7. The Oven Bird - Wikipedia

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    He says that leaves are old and that for flowers Mid-summer is to spring as one to ten. He says the early petal-fall is past When pear and cherry bloom went down in showers On sunny days a moment overcast; And comes that other fall we name the fall. He says the highway dust is over all. The bird would cease and be as other birds

  8. Humpty Dumpty really does fall off the wall at amusement park

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    On Saturday in Turner, Oregon, a statue of nursery rhyme character Humpty Dumpty took a tumble off a wall at the Enchanted Forest amusement park. Talk about life imitating art ... or perhaps life ...

  9. For the Fallen - Wikipedia

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    The poem remembers the deaths of soldiers while justifying the cause of their deaths as "the cause of the free": a theme carried throughout the rest of the poem. [10] The monosyllabic words of the second stanza echo "solemn, funereal drums." [11] The stanza, like the first, espouses themes of "martial glorification." It describes war as "solemn ...