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Brewer's: Tarabolus

or Tantrabolus. We shall live till we die, like Tarabolus [or Tantrabolus ]. Tarabolus, Ali Pacha, was grand vizier in 1693, and was strangled in 1695 by order of Mustapha II. We shall…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: To a Skylark

by Percy Bysshe Shelley The CloudCancelled Passage of the Ode to LibertyTo a Skylark Composed at Leghorn, 1820, and published with "Prometheus Unbound" in the same year. There is a…

Briar Rose

Briar Rose A king and queen once upon a time reigned in a country a great way off, where there were in those days fairies. Now this king and queen had plenty of money, and plenty of fine…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Sensitive Plant Part 1

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Part 2 Part 1 A Sensitive Plant in a garden grew, And the young winds fed it with silver dew, And it opened its fan-like leaves to the light. And closed them beneath…

The Salad

The Salad As a merry young huntsman was once going briskly along through a wood, there came up a little old woman, and said to him, 'Good day, good day; you seem merry enough, but I am hungry…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Precedence

by EmilyDickinsonVanishedGonePrecedence Precedence Wait till the majesty of Death Invests so mean a brow! Almost a powdered footman Might dare to touch it now! Wait till in everlasting…

Life for Life

Life for LifeThe summer days that followed were full of rest and pleasure for young and old, as they did the honours of Plumfield to their happy guests. While Franz and Emil were busy with…