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The Paltry Nude Starts on a Spring Voyage by Wallace Stevens | Poets.org

But not on a shell, she starts, Archaic, for the sea. But on the first-found weed

Spring Song by Sherwood Anderson | Poets.org

In the forest, amid old trees and wet dead leaves, a shrine. Men on the wet leaves kneeling.

Song by James Joyce | Poets.org

My love is in a light attire Among the apple trees,

To My Mother, by Christina Rossetti | Poets.org

Christina Rossetti's best-known work, Goblin Market and Other Poems, was published in 1862. The collection established Rossetti as a significant voice in Victorian poetry. She died in 1894.

Seattle Symphony musicians free chamber music May 15

WHAT: The public and media are invited to a free lunchtime chamber music performance in Benaroya Hall’s Samuel & Althea Stroum Grand Lobby at 12:45 p.m Wednesday, May 15.

Before the Birth of One of Her Children by Anne Bradstreet | Poets.org

Anne Bradstreet was born in Northamptonshire, England in 1612, but emigrated to Ipswich, Massachusetts at the age of 18 with her husband and parents.

My Lady Is Compared to a Young Tree by Vachel Lindsay | Poets.org

Vachel Lindsay was born in Springfield, Illinois on November 10, 1879. He was known as the Prairie Troubadour because he integrated music into his poems and performed them theatrically. He died in 1931.