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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Hamatreya

HamatreyaBulkeley, Hunt, Willard, Hosmer, Meriam, Flint, Possessed the land which rendered to their toil Hay, corn, roots, hemp, flax, apples, wool and wood. Each of these landlords walked…

Middle-earth Timeline

From the creation of Middle-earth to the War of the Ring by Laura Hayes The Second Age of Middle-earth saw the glory of Númenor, the rise of Sauron, and the forging of the Rings of Power…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Hermione

HermioneOn a mound an Arab lay, And sung his sweet regrets And told his amulets: The summer bird His sorrow heard, And, when he heaved a sigh profound, The sympathetic swallow swept the…

Svetasvatara Upanishad: Second Adhyâya

1. Savitri (the sun), having first collected his mind and expanded his thoughts, brought Agni (fire), when he had discovered his light, above the earth. 2. With collected minds we are at the…

Women's Olympic Swimming: 200-meter Butterfly

200-meter Butterfly Find the Olympic gold-medal times for the women's 200-meter Butterfly swimming competition from 1968 to the present. Year Time 1968 Ada Kok, NED 2:24.7 OR1972 Karen Moe…

Brewer's: Rooky Wood

(The). Not the wood where rooks do congregate, but the misty or dark wood. The verb reek (to emit vapour) had the preterite roke, rook, or roak; hence Hamilton, in his Wallace, speaks of…

Brewer's: Oriflamme

(3 syl.). First used in France as a national banner in 1119. It consisted of a crimson flag mounted on a gilt staff (un glaive tout doré ou est attaché une bannière vermeille). The flag…

The Harry Potter Haiku Archive, Part VII

Wizardry poetry from our readers! On to the Haiku Archive, Parts I, II, III, IV, V, VI, and other kinds of Harry poems! All About Harry Haikus A quite sneaky rat…