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Chauncey Judd: Prison Life

Newgate Afterward Prison Life Let us draw a picture of daily prison life in the Newgate of Connecticut One hundred years ago. At daybreak, summer and winter, the heavy iron trap-door…

The Song of Hiawatha: Pau-Puk-Keewis

Hiawatha's Lamentation The Hunting of Pau-Puk-Keewis Pau-Puk-Keewis You shall hear how Pau-Puk-Keewis, He, the handsome Yenadizze, Whom the people called the Storm-Fool, Vexed the…

Nat

Nat"Please, sir, is this Plumfield?" asked a ragged boy of the man who opened the great gate at which the omnibus left him. "Yes. Who sent you?" "Mr. Laurence. I have got a letter for the…

The Lion and the Lamb

The Lion and the LambWhen the boys were gone a lull fell upon Plumfield, and the family scattered to various places for brief outings, as August had come and all felt the need of change. The…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 5

Part 5I believe in you my soul, the other I am must not abase itself to you, And you must not be abased to the other.Loafe with me on the grass, loose the stop from your throat, Not words,…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Tower of Famine

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Summer and WinterAn AllegoryThe Tower of Famine Published by Mrs. Shelley in "The Keepsake", 1829. Mr. C.W. Frederickson of Brooklyn possesses a transcript in Mrs.…

Margaret Widdemer: Irish Love Song

Irish Love SongMargaret WiddemerWell, if the thing is over, better it is for me, The lad was ever a rover, loving and laughing free, Far too clever a lover not to be having still A lass in…