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  2. The Legend of Good Women - Wikipedia

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    The Legend of Good Women is a poem in the form of a dream vision by Geoffrey Chaucer during the fourteenth century.. The poem is the third longest of Chaucer's works, after The Canterbury Tales and Troilus and Criseyde, and is possibly the first significant work in English to use the iambic pentameter or decasyllabic couplets which he later used throughout The Canterbury Tales.

  3. The Gate of the Year - Wikipedia

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    'God Knows' And I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year: "Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown". And he replied: "Go out into the darkness and put your hand into the Hand of God. That shall be to you better than light and safer than a known way". So I went forth, and finding the Hand of God, trod gladly into the ...

  4. Gunga Din - Wikipedia

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    Gunga Din" (/ ˌ ɡ ʌ ŋ ɡ ə ˈ d iː n /) is an 1890 poem by Rudyard Kipling set in British India. The poem was published alongside "Mandalay" and "Danny Deever" in the collection "Barrack-Room Ballads". The poem is much remembered for its final line "You're a better man than I am, Gunga Din". [1]

  5. Obama says women are 'indisputably' better leaders than men - AOL

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    Former President Barack Obama thinks that if the world were run by women, there would be "significant" global improvement. Obama says women are 'indisputably' better leaders than men Skip to main ...

  6. Bread and Roses - Wikipedia

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    "Bread and Roses" is a political slogan as well as the name of an associated poem and song. It originated in a speech given by American women's suffrage activist Helen Todd; a line in that speech about "bread for all, and roses too" [1] inspired the title of the poem Bread and Roses by James Oppenheim. [2]

  7. The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick (poem) - Wikipedia

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    "The Ballad of Cassandra Southwick" is a poem written by American Quaker poet John Greenleaf Whittier in 1843. It details the religious persecution of Cassandra Southwick's youngest daughter Provided Southwick, a Quaker woman who lived in Salem, Massachusetts and is the only white female known to be put up at auction as a slave in the United States.

  8. All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace - Wikipedia

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    The poem, and its eponymous collection were popular, in part due to the success of Brautigan's 1967 novella Trout Fishing in America. [6] It was included with the rest of the contents of the 1967 collection, along with other previously published collections and new material, in the book-length The Pill versus the Springhill Mine Disaster (1968 ...

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