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The Willow-Wren and the Bear

The Willow-Wren and the Bear Once in summer-time the bear and the wolf were walking in the forest, and the bear heard a bird singing so beautifully that he said: 'Brother wolf, what bird is…

The Three Languages

The Three Languages An aged count once lived in Switzerland, who had an only son, but he was stupid, and could learn nothing. Then said the father: 'Hark you, my son, try as I will I can get…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Peter Bell, Death

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Prologue The Devil Death And Peter Bell, when he had been With fresh-imported Hell-fire warmed, Grew serious—from his dress and mien 'Twas very plainly to be seen…

A Boy's Will: Going for Water

by Robert Frost MowingRevelationGoing for Water THE well was dry beside the door, And so we went with pail and can Across the fields behind the house To seek the brook if still it…

Berkman & Goldman: Address by Alexander Berkman

Discrimination Against the DefenseEmma Goldman's Address to the JuryAddress by Alexander Berkman GENTLEMEN OF THE JURY: It is for the first time that I rise to address a jury. * It was…

William Shakespeare: Henry VI (Pt 3), Act II

Act IIScene IA plain near Mortimer's Cross in HerefordshireA march. Enter Edward, Richard, and their powerEdwardI wonder how our princely father 'scaped, Or whether he be 'scaped away or no…

Poems: A Little Boy Lost

by WilliamBlakeA Poison TreeA Little Girl LostA Little Boy Lost "Nought loves another as itself, Nor venerates another so, Nor is it possible to thought A greater than itself to…

Peter Pan: The Children are Carried off

Wendy's Story Do You Believe in Fairies? The Children are Carried off The pirate attack had been a complete surprise: a sure proof that the unscrupulous Hook had conducted it…

Joshua: 9

Joshua Chapter 9 1 And it came to pass, when all the kings which were on this side Jordan, in the hills, and in the valleys, and in all the coasts of the great sea over against…