1. Poets are born not made
He wrote unoriginal poems and stories for popular magazines and made political speeches, for which Tammany Hall democrats rewarded him with the editorship of various short-lived newspapers. ... The boy and his mother went to live with his grandfather in Lawrence, Mass. ... Make no parley "stop for any expostulation, Mind not the timid "mind not the weeper or prayer, Mind not the old man beseeching the young man, Let not the child's voice be heard, not the mother's entreaties, Make even the trestles to shake the dead where they lie awaiting the hearses, So strong yo...
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- Grade Level: High School