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Alfred Lord Tennyson: Timbuctoo

TimbuctooBy A. Tennyson Of Trinity CollegeA Poem Which Obtained The Chancellor's Medal At The Cambridge Commencement MDCCCXXIX Deep in that lion-haunted inland lies A mystic city,…

The Northwest Ordinance

Because the Articles of Confederation, adopted by the states in 1781 as the country's first constitution, have often been considered a failure, it is all too easy to overlook the significant…

Musicks Empire

Musicks Empire First was the World as one great Cymbal made, Where Jarring Windes to infant Nature plaid. All Musick was a solitary sound, To hollow Rocks and murm'ring Fountains bound.…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Visit

The VisitAskest, 'How long thou shalt stay?' Devastator of the day! Know, each substance and relation, Thorough nature's operation, Hath its unit, bound and metre; And every new compound Is…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Beauty

BeautyWas never form and never face So sweet to SEYD as only grace Which did not slumber like a stone, But hovered gleaming and was gone. Beauty chased he everywhere, In flame, in storm, in…

William Shakespeare: Pericles, Act V, Scene II

Scene IIEnter Gower, before the temple of Diana at EphesusGowerNow our sands are almost run; More a little, and then dumb. This, my last boon, give me, For such kindness must relieve me, That…

Poems: A Little Boy Lost

by WilliamBlakeA Poison TreeA Little Girl LostA Little Boy Lost "Nought loves another as itself, Nor venerates another so, Nor is it possible to thought A greater than itself to…