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(Encyclopedia) sex, term used to refer both to the two groups distinguished as males and females, and to the anatomical and physiological characteristics associated with maleness and femaleness. Sex…

Inheritance: Genes at Work: Mendel's Breakthrough

Genes at Work: Mendel's BreakthroughInheritanceIntroductionGenes at Work: Mendel's BreakthroughMeiosis and Sexual ReproductionGametogenesis in Plants and AnimalsRegulation of Gene Expression in…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Question

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Hymn of PanThe Two Spirits: An AllegoryThe Question Published by Leigh Hunt (with the signature Sigma) in "The Literary Pocket-Book", 1822. Reprinted by Mrs.…

A Boy's Will: Spoils of the Dead

by Robert Frost The Tuft of FlowersPan with UsSpoils of the Dead about death; TWO fairies it was On a still summer day Came forth in the woods With the flowers to play. The flowers…

Poems in Honor of Spring

  A selection of verses to cheer the winter-weary soul Related Links The Vernal Equinox Poetry for the Seasons Quotations for Mother's Day Winter Quotations…

Sweetheart Roland

Sweetheart Roland There was once upon a time a woman who was a real witch and had two daughters, one ugly and wicked, and this one she loved because she was her own daughter, and one…

Robert Graves: Double Red Daisies

Double Red DaisiesDouble red daisies, they're my flowers, Which nobody else may grow. In a big quarrelsome house like ours They try it sometimes—but no, I root them up because they're my…

Amy Lowell: Song

SongOh! To be a flower Nodding in the sun, Bending, then upspringing As the breezes run; Holding up A scent-brimmed cup, Full of summer's fragrance to the summer sun.Oh! To be a…