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Amy Lowell: V

VThe roses bloom at Malmaison. And not only roses. Tulips, myrtles, geraniums, camelias, rhododendrons, dahlias, double hyacinths. All the year through, under glass, under the sky, flowers…

Nat's New Year

Nat's New Year“I don't expect to hear from Emil yet, and Nat writes regularly, but where is Dan? Only two or three postals since he went. Such an energetic fellow as he is could buy up all…

Daisy's Ball

Daisy's Ball"Mrs. Shakespeare Smith would like to have Mr. John Brooke, Mr. Thomas Bangs, and Mr. Nathaniel Blake to come to her ball at three o'clock today. "P.S. Nat must bring his fiddle,…

Snowdrop by the Brothers Grimm

Snowdrop It was the middle of winter, when the broad flakes of snow were falling around, that the queen of a country many thousand miles off sat working at her window. The frame of the window…

William Shakespeare: Cymbeline, Act I, Scene V

Scene VBritain. A room in Cymbeline's palaceEnter Queen, Ladies, and CorneliusQueenWhiles yet the dew's on ground, gather those flowers; Make haste: who has the note of them?First LadyI,…

Hillary Clinton

Candidate for the 2008 Democratic presidential nomination by Beth Rowen Hillary Clinton Related Links Hillary Clinton's campaign website Bill Clinton Facts…

The Divine Comedy: Paradiso: Canto XXVI

Paradiso: Canto XXVParadiso: Canto XXVIIParadiso: Canto XXVI While I was doubting for my vision quenched, Out of the flame refulgent that had quenched it Issued a breathing, that…

Hillary Rodham Clinton, 1999 News

52, first lady, launched an exploratory committee in July to consider a run for the U.S. Senate. If she follows through, Clinton will become the first first lady to run for public office.…

Brewer's: Place aux Dames

Make way for the ladies; give place to the ladies; the ladies first, if you please. Indirectly it means women beat the men hollow in every contest. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…