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Brewer's: Indian Summer

(The). The autumnal summer; generally the finest and mildest part of the whole year, especially in North America. “The gilding of the Indian summer mellowed the pastures far and wide. The…

Brewer's: Hyacinth

according to Grecian fable, was the son of Amyclas, a Spartan king. The lad was beloved by Apollo and Zephyr, and as he preferred the sun-god, Zephyr drove Apollo's quoit at his head, and…

The Koran/Sura LXXVI — Man

Sura LXXVI — Man Mecca — 31 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful Doth not a long time pass over MAN, during which he is a thing unremembered?[192] We have created…

Walt Whitman: A Song of Joys

A Song of JoysO to make the most jubilant song! Full of music—full of manhood, womanhood, infancy! Full of common employments—full of grain and trees.O for the voices of animals—O for the…

Walt Whitman: This Compost

This CompostPart 1Something startles me where I thought I was safest, I withdraw from the still woods I loved, I will not go now on the pastures to walk, I will not strip the clothes from my…

Christina Rossetti: A Year's Windfalls

A Year's WindfallsOn the wind of January Down flits the snow, Travelling from the frozen North As cold as it can blow. Poor robin redbreast, Look where he comes; Let him in to feel your…

Louis V. Ledoux: The Only Way

The Only WayLouis V. LedouxIMemphis and Karnak, Luxor, Thebes, the Nile: Of these your letters told; and I who read Saw loom on dim horizons Egypt's dead In march across the desert, mile on…