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Poems by Emily Dickinson: April
by EmilyDickinsonThe BluebirdThe Sleeping FlowersApril April An altered look about the hills; A Tyrian light the village fills; A wider sunrise in the dawn; A deeper twilight on the lawn; A…A. E. Housman: I Hoed and trenched and weeded,
I Hoed and trenched and weeded, And took the flowers to fair: I brought them home unheeded; The hue was not the wear.So up and down I sow them For lads like me to find, When I shall lie…Poems by Emily Dickinson: New feet within my garden go
May-Flower I New feet within my garden go, New fingers stir the sod; A troubadour upon the elm Betrays the solitude. New children play upon the green, New weary sleep below; And still the…Crops
CropsThe gardens did well that summer, and in September the little crops were gathered in with much rejoicing. Jack and Ned joined their farms and raised potatoes, those being a good salable…Andersen's Fairy Tales: Metamorphosis of the Copying-Clerk
A Moment of Head Importance - ...The Best That the Galoshes GaveMetamorphosis of the Copying-Clerk The watchman, whom we have certainly not forgotten, thought meanwhile of the galoshes he…Amy Lowell: The Bombardment
The BombardmentSlowly, without force, the rain drops into the city. It stops a moment on the carved head of Saint John, then slides on again, slipping and trickling over his stone cloak. It…Valentine's Day by the Numbers
From the U.S. Census Bureau Find fun facts about Valentine's Day—a holiday centuries old that celebrates love—from who sent the first valentine to how many Americans send love messages today.…Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Woodman and the Nightingale
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Stanzas Written in Dejection, ...MarenghiThe Woodman and the Nightingale Published in part (1-67) by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824; the remainder (68-70)…Brewer's: Heart's Ease
The viola tricolor. It has a host of fancy names; as, the “Butterfly flower,” “Kiss me quick,” a “Kiss behind the garden gate,” “Love in idleness,” “Pansy,” “Three faces under one hood,”…Brewer's: Daffodil
(The), or “Lent Lily,” was once white; but Persephone, daughter of Demeter (Ceres), delighted to wander about the flowery meadows of Sicily. One spring-tide she tripped over the meadows,…