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Peter Pan: The Shadow
Peter Breaks Through Come Away, Come Away! The Shadow Mrs. Darling screamed, and, as if in answer to a bell, the door opened, and Nana entered, returned from her evening out. She…The Celtic Twilight: "Dust Hath Closed Helen's Eye"
by W. B. Yeats Village GhostsA Knight of the Sheep"Dust Hath Closed Helen's Eye" I I have been lately to a little group of houses, not many enough to be called a village, in the barony…Amy Lowell: The Red Lacquer Music-Stand
The Red Lacquer Music-StandA music-stand of crimson lacquer, long since brought In some fast clipper-ship from China, quaintly wrought With bossed and carven flowers and fruits in blackening…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: Lewis, August 11, 1805
Day 839 Day 841 Lewis, August 11, 1805 Sunday August 11th 1805. We set out very early this morning; but the track which we had pursued last evening soon disappeared. I therefore resolved…refraction
(Encyclopedia) refraction, in physics, deflection of a wave on passing obliquely from one transparent medium into a second medium in which its speed is different, as the passage of a light ray from…Robert Frost: After Apple-Picking
After Apple-PickingRobert FrostMy long two-pointed ladder's sticking through a tree Toward heaven still, And there's a barrel that I didn't fill Beside it, and there may be two or three…Glass, Montague Marsden
(Encyclopedia) Glass, Montague Marsden, 1877–1934, American humorist and playwright, b. England, educated at the College of the City of New York and at New York Univ. He won fame for his humorous…Lalique, René
(Encyclopedia) Lalique, RenéLalique, Renérənāˈ lälēkˈ [key], 1860–1945, French jewelery designer and glassmaker whose works are landmarks of arts nouveau and deco, b. Ay; apprenticed to Parisian…Selected Essays in Black History: The Bouquet
The Wife of His Youth The Case of the Negro The Bouquet by Charles W. Chesnutt Mary Myrover's friends were somewhat surprised when she began to teach a colored school. Miss…Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards
The comically inept British "ski jumper" by Gerry Brown Eddie "the Eagle" Edwards Related Links 2010 Winter Olympics Memorable Olympic Moments Birth of the Modern Olympics…