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Poems by Emily Dickinson (Third Series): Lost Faith
by EmilyDickinsonDisenchantmentLost JoyLost Faith Lost Faith To lose one's faith surpasses The loss of an estate, Because estates can be Replenished, — faith cannot. Inherited with…Poems by Emily Dickinson: XXXVIII ("I worked for chaff")
by EmilyDickinson Lost Joy XXXIX XXXVIII I worked for chaff, and earning wheat Was haughty and betrayed. What right had fields to arbitrate In matters ratified? I tasted wheat, — and hated…Poems by Emily Dickinson (Third Series): Desire
by EmilyDickinsonXLVIIPhilosophyDesire Desire Who never wanted, — maddest joy Remains to him unknown: The banquet of abstemiousness Surpasses that of wine. Within its hope, though…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Fragment: Home
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Mont BlancFragment of a Ghost StoryFragment: Home Published by Garnett, "Relics of Shelley", 1862. Dear home, thou scene of earliest hopes and joys, The least of…Yes, Virginia
The Question: Who said "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus"? The Answer: In 1897, Francis P. Church, an editor at The New York Sun, answered…William Shakespeare: Henry VI (Pt 3), Act II
Act IIScene IA plain near Mortimer's Cross in HerefordshireA march. Enter Edward, Richard, and their powerEdwardI wonder how our princely father 'scaped, Or whether he be 'scaped away or no…William Shakespeare: Romeo and Juliet, Act III, Scene III
Scene IIIFriar Laurence's cellEnter Friar LaurenceFriar LaurenceRomeo, come forth; come forth, thou fearful man: Affliction is enamour'd of thy parts, And thou art wedded to calamity.Enter…Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Adirondacs
The AdirondacsA JournalDedicated to My Fellow Travellers in August, 1858 Wise and polite,—and if I drew Their several portraits, you would own Chaucer had no such worthy crew,…Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Revolt of Islam, Canto 4
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Canto 3 Canto 5 Canto 4 The old man took the oars, and soon the bark Smote on the beach beside a tower of stone; It was a crumbling heap, whose portal dark With…Aesop's Fables: The Cock and the Jewel
by Aesop The Fly and the Draught-MuleThe Wolf and the ShepherdThe Cock and the Jewel A Cock, scratching the ground for something to eat, turned up a Jewel that had by chance been dropped…Trending
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