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Christina Rossetti: Shut Out

Shut OutThe door was shut. I looked between Its iron bars; and saw it lie, My garden, mine, beneath the sky, Pied with all flowers bedewed and green:From bough to bough the song-birds…

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Summary

A Midsummer Night's Dream There was a law in the city of Athens which gave to its citizens the power of compelling their daughters to marry whomsoever they pleased; for upon a daughter's…

Five Kingdoms of Life

Related Links Classifying Animals Estimated Number of Animal Species Animal Groups   Every living creature on Earth belongs to a kingdom. Scientists debate how many kingdoms…

Amy Lowell: The Way

The WayAt first a mere thread of a footpath half blotted out by the grasses Sweeping triumphant across it, it wound between hedges of roses Whose blossoms were poised above leaves as pond…

The First Wedding

The First WeddingThe June roses over the porch were awake bright and early on that morning, rejoicing with all their hearts in the cloudless sunshine, like friendly little neighbors, as they…

The Hungry Stones: The Victory

by Rabindranath Tagore The Hungry StonesOnce There Was a KingThe Victory She was the Princess Ajita. And the court poet of King Narayan had never seen her. On the day he recited a new…

Andersen's Fairy Tales: The Old House

The BellThe Happy FamilyThe Old House In the street, up there, was an old, a very old house - it was almost three hundred years old, for that might be known by reading the great beam on…