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Poems: The Chimney Sweeper
by WilliamBlakeThe Little Girl FoundNurse's SongThe Chimney Sweeper A little black thing in the snow, Crying "weep! weep!" in notes of woe! "Where are thy father and mother? Say!"— "…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Fragment from the Wandering Jew
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Song from the Wandering JewTo the Queen of My HeartFragment from the Wandering Jew Published as Shelley's by Medwin, "Life of Shelley", 1847, 1 page 56. The…William W. SNOW, Congress, NY (1812-1886)
SNOW William W. , a Representative from New York; born in Heath, Franklin County, Mass., April 27, 1812; attended the public schools; learned the trade of wool-carder and cloth dresser; moved to…Bill Talbert Biography
Bill TalbertAge: 80 Hall of Fame tennis champion who won four men's doubles titles with Gardnar Mulloy and four mixed doubles titles with Margaret Osborne duPont at the United States…Fantastic Fables, Ambrose Bierce: Two of the Damned
67 69 Two of the Damned TWO Blighted Beings, haggard, lachrymose, and detested, met on a blasted heath in the light of a struggling moon. "I wish you a merry Christmas," said the First Blighted…Pulitzer Prizes: Correspondence
1929Paul Scott Mowrer (Chicago Daily News)1930Leland Stowe (New York Herald Tribune)1931H. R. Knickerbocker (Philadelphia Public Ledger and New York Evening Post)1932Walter Duranty (New York…Poems: The Garden of Love
by WilliamBlakeThe LilyThe Little VagabondThe Garden of Love I laid me down upon a bank, Where Love lay sleeping; I heard among the rushes dank Weeping, weeping. Then I went…Fantastic Fables by Ambrose Bierce: Two of the Damned
The Compassionate Physician The Austere Governor Two of the Damned TWO Blighted Beings, haggard, lachrymose, and detested, met on a blasted heath in the light of a struggling moon…Super-sized Americans
Many Americans eat too much and don’t exercise enough. If you have a hard time believing that, look around. About 16% of kids ages 12 to 19 are obese and 30% are overweight. As for adults, 31% are…The True George Washington: Social Life
Social LifeIn VirginiaThere can be no doubt that Washington, like the Virginian of his time, was pre-eminently social. It is true that late in life he complained, as already quoted, that his…