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Haran, ancient city, Mesopotamia

(Encyclopedia) Haran or HarranHaranboth: häränˈ [key], ancient city of Mesopotamia, now in SE Asian Turkey, 24 mi (39 km) SE of Şanlıurfa. It was an important center on the trade route from Nineveh…

Vélez de Guevara, Luis

(Encyclopedia) Vélez de Guevara, LuisVélez de Guevara, Luisl&oomacr;ēsˈ vāˈlāth ᵺā gāväˈrä [key], 1579?–1644, Spanish playwright and novelist. He was a follower of Lope de Vega and wrote many…

William Shakespeare: Macbeth, Act II

Act IIScene ICourt of Macbeth's castleEnter Banquo, and Fleance bearing a torch before himBanquoHow goes the night, boy?FleanceThe moon is down; I have not heard the clock.BanquoAnd she goes…

William Shakespeare: Coriolanus, Act V

Act VScene IRome. A public placeEnter Menenius, Cominius, Sicinius, Brutus, and othersMeneniusNo, I'll not go: you hear what he hath said Which was sometime his general; who loved him In a…

William Vaughn Moody: The Daguerreotype

The DaguerreotypeWilliam Vaughn MoodyThis, then, is she, My mother as she looked at seventeen, When she first met my father. Young incredibly, Younger than spring, without the faintest trace…

Walt Whitman: Look Down Fair Moon

Look Down Fair MoonLook down fair moon and bathe this scene, Pour softly down night's nimbus floods on faces ghastly, swollen, purple, On the dead on their backs with arms toss'd wide, Pour…

<em>New Moon</em> Movie Review

Director Chris Weitz turns up the heat in the second Twilight film by Catherine McNiff Related Links New Moon TriviaNew Moon QuizTwilight PollTwilight HangmanTwilight PageHere…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Homer's Hymn to the Moon

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Homer's Hymn to Castor and PolluxHomer's Hymn to the SunHomer's Hymn to the Moon Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition; dated 1818.…