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Born in March 1, 1837 / Died in May 11, 1920 / United States / English

Poems by William Dean Howells

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Earliest Spring

... angles Round the shuddering house, threating of winter and death ...

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In Earliest Spring

... Nay, to earth's life in mine some prescience, or dream, or desire ...

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From Generation to Generation

... Have our brief being and pass, we know not where or why ...

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Dead

... The windows are lit with a ghastly bloom ...

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Change

... As if my little, trivial scheme were great, &emsp ...

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Living

... How wildly I hurry, for the change I crave ...

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Hope

... Then hills and valleys, rivers, fields, and woods, ...

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The Song The Oriole Sings

... Long blue, from some roof-sheltering grove ...

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The Bewildered Guest

... A sound of shrieks and sobs, that strikes our joys ...

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Friends and Foes

... The things one’s friends will say in one’s defence ...

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The Two Wives

...   And he whispered, prayer-like, under his breath, ...

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The Passengers Of A Retarded Submersible

...  those Ghosts of the women and children that the rest of the hundred chose ...

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Judgment Day

... “Thou that didst make us what we might become, &emsp ...

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What shall it profit?

... The blessed fields of heaven where once my faith ...

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Vision

... But I saw not that sunless, breathless lair, &emsp ...