Search

Search results

Displaying 261 - 270

Louisa May Alcott: Thanksgiving

ThanksgivingThis yearly festival was always kept at Plumfield in the good old-fashioned way, and nothing was allowed to interfere with it. For days beforehand, the little girls helped Asia…

Ten Years Later

Ten Years Later“If anyone had told me what wonderful changes were to take place here in ten years, I wouldn't have believed it,” said Mrs Jo to Mrs Meg, as they sat on the piazza at Plumfield…

Home Again

Home AgainJuly had come, and haying begun; the little gardens were doing finely and the long summer days were full of pleasant hours. The house stood open from morning till night, and the…

In the Willow

In the WillowThe old tree saw and heard a good many little scenes and confidences that summer, because it became the favorite retreat of all the children, and the willow seemed to enjoy it,…

Meg Goes to Vanity Fair

Meg Goes to Vanity Fair"I do think it was the most fortunate thing in the world that those children should have the measles just now," said Meg, one April day, as she stood packing the 'go…

Walt Whitman: By Blue Ontario's Shore

By Blue Ontario's ShorePart 1By blue Ontario's shore, As I mused of these warlike days and of peace return'd, and the dead that return no more, A Phantom gigantic superb, with stern…

Aeolus, the Laestrygones, Circe - The Odyssey

Ulysses Declares Himself and ... The Visit to the Dead. [1] Aeolus, the Laestrygones, Circe. "Thence we went on to the Aeolian island where lives Aeolus son of Hippotas, dear to…