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All-American Rose Selection

The Question: What do different color roses mean? The Answer: According to the All-American Rose Selection web site, these are some of the colors and their…

The Devil's Dictionary: Laureate

by Ambrose Bierce LAUGHTERLAURELLAUREATE -adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every…

Sara Teasdale: Meadowlarks

MeadowlarksIn the silver light after a storm, Under dripping boughs of bright new green, I take the low path to hear the meadowlarks Alone and high-hearted as if I were a queen.What have I…

Sherman, Frank Dempster

Sherman, Frank Dempster[1860-1916](3)Born at Peekskill, New York, May 6, 1860. Died September 19, 1916. He took the degree of Ph.B. from Columbia University in 1884, and was Professor of…

Sara Teasedale: Love-Free

Love-FreeI am free of love as a bird flying south in the autumn, Swift and intent, asking no joy from another, Glad to forget all of the passion of April Ere it was love-free.I am free…

Christina Rossetti: From House to Home

From House to HomeThe first was like a dream through summer heat, The second like a tedious numbing swoon, While the half-frozen pulses lagged to beat Beneath a winter moon.'But,' says my…

The Hungry Stones and Other Stories: Vision, I

by Rabindranath Tagore III When I was a very young wife, I gave birth to a dead child, and came near to death myself. I recovered strength very slowly, and my eyesight became weaker and…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Cenci Scene 4.1:

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Act 4 SCENE 4.2: SCENE 4.1: AN APARTMENT IN THE CASTLE OF PETRELLA. ENTER CENCI. CENCI: She comes not; yet I left her even now Vanquished and faint. She knows the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Threnody

ThrenodyThe South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost, he cannot restore; And,…