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Happy 212th birthday Charles Dickens
Happy 212th birthday Charles Dickens Though written three hundred and sixty five days ago, the following poetic commemoration doth not warrant any modification. Said prolific author born February 7, 1812, whose living descendents I would be thrilled to befriend, hence if anonymous reader by some genetic fluke linkedin to said prolific storied author please kindly reciprocate. greetings mutual friend, hard times dash great expectations in...

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Categories: charles dickens, adventure, anniversary, birthday, creation,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Charles Dickens - Clerihew
Charles Dickens his novels began as writing compositions with hilarity and kindness, he wrote of the poor with stories we still love that from his pen did pour...

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Premium Member Charles Dickens - Edited
Social critic and novelist Charles Dickens - The plot of his every book so interestingly thickens! Not only the creator of Scrooge was he; He revived the Christmas spirit for you and for me....

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Categories: charles dickens, writing,
Form: Clerihew
Premium Member Book - a Tale of Two Cities: Charles Dickens
love through sacrifice even unto death . . . a lost soul’s hope for salvation...

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Categories: charles dickens, writing,
Form: Monoku
Premium Member Charles Dickens Knew Poverty
Oliver Twist Great Expectations A Christmas Carol author Charles Dickens worked in a boot-blacking factory at age twelve after father was sent to debtor’s prison campaigned vigorously for children’s rights...

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Categories: charles dickens, write,
Form: Free verse
Happy 211th Birthday Charles Dickens
born February 7, 1812, whose living descendents I would be thrilled to befriend, hence if anonymous reader by some genetic fluke linkedin to said prolific storied author please kindly reciprocate. greetings mutual friend, hard times dash great expectations in this bleak house, whereby battle of life ensues when Sunday chimes from master humphrey’s clock issue somber american notes invoking overshadowing doom from young gentlemen: oliver twist,...

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Categories: charles dickens, 11th grade, 12th grade,
Form: Free verse
Happy 210th Birthday Charles Dickens
aforementioned author born February 7, 1812 the long deceased (centuries) storied author I toot and trumpet virtual horn accompanying pet rooster first thing in the morn. Greetings mutual friend, hard times dash Great Expectations in this Bleak House whereby battle of life ensues when Sunday chimes from Master Humphrey’s clock somber American notes invoking overshadowing doom from young gentlemen: Oliver Twist, Nicholas Nickleby, Barnaby Rudge Martin...

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Categories: charles dickens, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Marley Plays the Bottom Line - With Apologies To Charles Dickens
Oh, don’t flatter me with presents from the Ghost of Christmas Past. Tis the season for nostalgia, but those feelings never last. It’s a gift-wrapped empty promise not worth tuppence on the street, Or a ticket to the opera when you’ve nothing left to eat. Oh, don’t weary me with visions from the Ghost of...

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Categories: charles dickens, allegory, christmas,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member A Bawdier Charles Dickens
Yesterday I swear I saw Charles Dickens His quaint style today would take a lickin' -- So he's changed up the Dodger Now he's the 'Artful Todger' -- He whips it out ~ the plot really thickens...

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Categories: charles dickens, books, character, humor, identity,
Form: Limerick
Premium Member Charles Dickens' Best Pickins'
David Copperfield's Great Expectations Oliver Twist's Hard Times Tale of Two Cities, No Christmas Carol Dickens' Novels -- Poetry Sans Rhymes...

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Categories: charles dickens, literature, poetry,
Form: Epigram
Premium Member The Day I Switched Classes
"Miss Stokes, what do you think Pip was thinking?" Uh-oh. I possibly should not have pretended to be my twin today. I am taking her classes, pretending I am sick, rather than she. This is 7th grade English, and I have not even heard the word Great Expectations because my twin hates English as much as I despise math. In my...

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Categories: charles dickens, 10th grade, 6th grade,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens was said to be the pickings of literature in the nineteenth century, but I couldn't make it pass page three!...

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Categories: charles dickens, bereavement, books, funny, ,
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Two Hundred Years Charles Dickens
Chuzzlewit Chuzzlewit Nicolas Nickleby Pickwick, Scrooge, Dombey And more of their kind Two hundred years, filled with Dickensiania Real, just like you: It is all in the mind...

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Categories: charles dickens, anniversary,
Form: Double Dactyl
The City That Charles Dickens Loved
Let's stroll down the London old silent streets, where the stones of cathedrals never age, when the orange sun sets on the London Bridge, and the grotesque, historical Buckingham Palace; look down: the Thames River gently flows like perfect rhyme, to revive with its waves' sound someone's lost dreams, while lampposts await darkness to arrive... isn't this the city that Charles Dickens...

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Categories: charles dickens, dedication, lost love, nature,
Form: Rhyme
Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry