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Poems by Emily Dickinson: Eternity

by EmilyDickinsonRetrospectEternity Eternity On this wondrous sea, Sailing silently, Ho! pilot, ho! Knowest thou the shore Where no breakers roar, Where the storm is o'er? In the…

Lessing, Doris

(Encyclopedia) Lessing, Doris, 1919–2013, British novelist, b. Kermanshah, Persia (now Iran) as Doris May Tayler. Largely self-educated, she was brought up on a farm in Southern Rhodesia (now…

Emily Morison Beck 2004 Deaths

Emily Morison BeckAge: 88 editor of the 13th, 14th, and 15th editions of Bartlett's Familiar Quotations. Died: Canton, Mass., March 28, 2004Peter BarnesA - FArnold O. Beckman

Poems by Emily Dickinson: I died for beauty

IX "Troubled About Many Things" X   I died for beauty, but was scarce Adjusted in the tomb, When one who died for truth was lain In an adjoining room. He questioned softly why I failed? "…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Lonely House

by EmilyDickinsonThe SecretXVIThe Lonely House The Lonely House I know some lonely houses off the road A robber 'd like the look of, — Wooden barred, And windows hanging low, Inviting to A…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Book of Martyrs

by EmilyDickinsonDawnThe Mystery of PainThe Book of Martyrs The Book of Martyrs Read, sweet, how others strove, Till we are stouter; What they renounced, Till we are less afraid; How many…