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Fourth of July Quotes

    Founders' Wisdom: quotations from signers of the Declaration of Independence Compiled by Elizabeth Olson   We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created…

Walt Whitman: Spontaneous Me

Spontaneous MeSpontaneous me, Nature, The loving day, the mounting sun, the friend I am happy with, The arm of my friend hanging idly over my shoulder, The hillside whiten'd with blossoms of…

Clever Gretel

Clever Gretel There was once a cook named Gretel, who wore shoes with red heels, and when she walked out with them on, she turned herself this way and that, was quite happy and thought: 'You…

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: The Lament

by Robert Burns To RuinDespondency: An OdeThe Lament Occasioned by the unfortunate issue of a Friend's Amour. Alas! how oft does goodness would itself, And sweet affection…

Coleridge: Christabel, Notes

The Ancient MarinerKubla KhanChristabel 25,6-7-This couplet ran as follows in the first edition: "Sir Leoline, the Baron rich, Hath a toothless mastiff bitch." In the editions of…

Brewer's: Benbow

(Admiral ), in an engagement with the French near St. Martha, on the Spanish coast, in 1701, had his legs and thighs shivered into splinters by a chain-shot, but, supported in a wooden…

US in the World Cup: 1994

1st Round MatchesUnited States 1 Switzerland 1United States 2 Colombia 1Romania 1 United States 0Round of 16Brazil 1 United States 0U.S. Scoring-Eric Wynalda, Earnie Stewart and own goal (…