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Fantastic Fables, Ambrose Bierce: Alarm and Pride

52 54 Alarm and Pride "GOOD-MORNING, my friend," said Alarm to Pride; "how are you this morning?" "Very tired," replied Pride, seating himself on a stone by the wayside and mopping his steaming…

Sonnets by William Shakespeare: CLI

Sonnet CL Sonnet CLII CLI Love is too young to know what conscience is, Yet who knows not conscience is born of love? Then, gentle cheater, urge not my amiss, Lest guilty of my faults…

Gail Collins Biography

Gail Collinsnewspaper columnist, writerBorn: 11/25/1945Birthplace: Cincinnati, Ohio Gail Gleason earned a BA in journalism from Marquette University in 1969, and an MA in government from the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Art

ArtGive to barrows, trays and pans Grace and glimmer of romance; Bring the moonlight into noon Hid in gleaming piles of stone; On the city's paved street Plant gardens lined with lilacs sweet…

Satan

(Encyclopedia) Satan [Heb.,=adversary], traditional opponent of God and humanity in Judaism and Christianity. In Scripture and literature the role of the opponent is given many names, such as Apolyon…

Centinel VI (excerpt)

Centinel VI (excerpt)22 Dec. 1787by PopeMan is the glory, jest, and riddle of the world.Pope.Incredible transition! the people who, seven years ago, deemed every earthly good, every other…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 40

Part 40Flaunt of the sunshine I need not your bask—lie over! You light surfaces only, I force surfaces and depths also.Earth! you seem to look for something at my hands, Say, old top-knot,…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Guy

GuyMortal mixed of middle clay, Attempered to the night and day, Interchangeable with things, Needs no amulets nor rings. Guy possessed the talisman That all things from him began; And as, of…