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1956 College Football Recap

Final AP Top 20Bowl Games with Top 20 TeamsMajor Conference ChampionsHeisman Trophy VotingOther Major Award WinnersConsensus All-America Team How good was Oklahoma in 1956? The Sooners were…

Natives, North American

(Encyclopedia) Natives, North American, peoples who occupied North America before the arrival of the Europeans in the 15th cent. They have long been known as Indians because of the belief prevalent…

Robert Graves: The Shivering Beggar

The Shivering BeggarNear Clapham village, where fields began, Saint Edward met a beggar man. It was Christmas morning, the church bells tolled, The old man trembled for the fierce cold.Saint…

Amy Lowell: J—K. Huysmans

J—K. HuysmansA flickering glimmer through a window-pane, A dim red glare through mud bespattered glass, Cleaving a path between blown walls of sleet Across uneven pavements sunk in slime To…

John Donne: The Blossom

The Blossom Little think'st thou, poor flower, Whom I've watch'd six or seven days, And seen thy birth, and seen what every hour Gave to thy growth, thee to this height to raise,…

Poems: The Little Girl Lost

by WilliamBlakeHoly ThursdayThe Little Girl FoundThe Little Girl Lost In futurity I prophetic see That the earth from sleep (Grave the sentence deep) Shall arise, and seek for…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: May 15, 1804

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark May 14, 1804May 16, 1804May 15, 1804 Tuesday May 15th It rained during the greater part of last night and continued untill 7 OCk. A.M. after…

Christina Rossetti: Memory

MemoryII nursed it in my bosom while it lived, I hid it in my heart when it was dead; In joy I sat alone, even so I grieved Alone and nothing said.I shut the door to face the naked…