Poetry: Contemporary

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2009-11-06 Poetry - childrens poem:

Teresa: The poet is George Cooper and the poem appears in many anthologies. I started to type the verses of "Come Little Leaves" for you, but I discovered that another Allexpert [in poetry] answered

2009-10-27 Poetry - poem:

Dear Sharon: You haven't given me much to go on, but you are most likely thinking of this poem: The poet is James Whitcomb Riley, a writer of verse from Indiana. He spelled "orphan" as "orphant"

2009-10-23 Poetry - identification of a poem:

Dear Gordon, This might be what you are looking for: http://www.scvsc.org/newsletter/JAN%2006%20MO.pdf Capturing a Snapping Schned by R. Myers Somebody said that it couldn’t be done But I

2009-10-19 Poetry - birth and death:

Dear Sheryl: It's not really an epitaph, although some people MAY have used it as such. There has been an ongoing dispute about who actually wrote it. Some people argue that it is an Indian [as

2009-10-06 Poetry - finding Walt Whitman poem:

Ana If you want everything that he has written then you need to buy a "Complete Works" not "Collected Works". Collections do not contain everything. It was published in Leaves of Grass in 1900. The