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Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Nun's Aspiration
The Nun's AspirationThe yesterday doth never smile, The day goes drudging through the while, Yet, in the name of Godhead, I The morrow front, and can defy; Though I am weak, yet God, when…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Bonie Jean-A Ballad
by Robert Burns O Were My Love Yon Lilac FairLines On John M'Murdo, ESQ.Bonie Jean-A Ballad To its ain tune. There was a lass, and she was fair, At kirk or market to be…William Shakespeare: Cymbeline, Act V, Scene II
Scene IIField of battle between the British and Roman campsEnter, from one side, Lucius, Iachimo, and the Roman Army: from the other side, the British Army; Posthumus Leonatus following, like…Brewer's: Servus Servorum
(Latin). The slave of slaves, the drudge of a servant. The style adopted by the Roman pontiffs ever since the time of Gregory the Great is Servus Servorum Die. “Alexander episcopus, servus…Brewer's: Cinderella
[little cinder girl]. Heroine of a fairy tale. She is the drudge of the house, dirty with housework, while her elder sisters go to fine balls. At length a fairy enables her to go to the…Brewer's: Turnspit Dog
One who has all the work but none of the profit; he turns the spit but eats not of the roast. The allusion is to the dog used formerly to turn the spit in roasting. Topsel says, “They go…Brewer's: Robin Goodfellow
A “drudging fiend,” and merry domestic fairy, famous for mischievous pranks and practical jokes. At night-time he will sometimes do little services for the family over which he presides.…Walt Whitman: Chanting the Square Deific
Chanting the Square DeificPart 1Chanting the square deific, out of the One advancing, out of the sides, Out of the old and new, out of the square entirely divine, Solid, four-sided, (all the…Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Epistle To William Simson
by Robert Burns Second Epistle To J. LapraikPostcriptEpistle To William Simson Schoolmaster, Ochiltree.-May, 1785 I gat your letter, winsome Willie; Wi' gratefu' heart I…John Donne: Appendix A. Notes
Appendix A. Notes 1. Matt. 13:16. 2. 2 Kings 4:40. 3. Prov. 13:17. 5. 1 Sam. 24:15. 7. 2 Sam. 24:14. 8. Ps. 34:8. 9. Prov. 14:30. 10…Trending
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