The Christmas Fugitive's Snowbound Escape
Larkin loathes Christmas and escapes to a backwoods camp in a blizzard. He fights cheer, pays the cabbie with a scowl, and rides a stalled train while friends and porters echo holiday greetings he detests. He clings to refuge as the season blooms around him.
Christmas on the Train Brightens a Cold Ride
A stalled train becomes a stage for holiday cheer as Miss Carey and Larkin bring a tree gifts and a Santa act for children and crew. Their improvised Christmas spirit leads to new warmth between them, with Larkin inviting future happiness and mutual goodwill as the journey resumes.
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Herald Angels
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Respite in the Highlands as Dawn Breaks
Poem fragment describes dim dawn over highlands with hemlock peaks and rosy light. Speaker finds kin in wild wood life awakening around a speaker named Emma Bella Miles while frost lingers and air remains still.
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Sentry in New York Regiment Recounts a Boxing Row
Governor elect of Massachusetts recalls a Spanish War era New York regiment with East Side recruits. A tall Bowery man on guard was told to keep peace and not drop his rifle. When a brawl started the sentry claimed he could not stop it with the rifle in his hands.
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From Poems By Lionel Johnson
A fragmentary verse excerpt outlines a speaker who chooses isolation after war and mourning yet longs for shared joy. It contrasts solitary gloom with moments when music and beauty brighten the world and questions whether the speaker can ever truly be like others.
Palmerston Advisor on Island Travel Etiquette
A woman told Lord Palmerston that her maid who had been in the Isle of Wight objected to returning because the climate was not embracing enough. Palmerston replied you should take her to the Isle of Man next time.
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Little Otter Camps
Lord Palmerston
Isle of Wight
Isle of Man
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