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Fantastic Fables, Ambrose Bierce: An Invitation

40 42 An Invitation A PIOUS Person who had overcharged his paunch with dead bird by way of attesting his gratitude for escaping the many calamities which Heaven had sent upon others, fell asleep…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Cenci Scene 5.3:

by Percy Bysshe Shelley SCENE 5.2: SCENE 5.4: SCENE 5.3: THE CELL OF A PRISON. BEATRICE IS DISCOVERED ASLEEP ON A COUCH. ENTER BERNARDO. BERNARDO: How gently slumber rests upon her face…

Peter Pan: The Flight

Come Away, Come Away! The Island Come True The Flight "Second to the right, and straight on till morning." That, Peter had told Wendy, was the way to the Neverland; but even birds…

On the Shelf

On the ShelfIn France the young girls have a dull time of it till they are married, when 'Vive la liberte!' becomes their motto. In America, as everyone knows, girls early sign the…

Walt Whitman: Camps of Green

Camps of GreenNor alone those camps of white, old comrades of the wars, When as order'd forward, after a long march, Footsore and weary, soon as the light lessens we halt for the night, Some…

John Keats: To Autumn

Ode on indolenceOdeTo Autumn Season of mists and mellow fruitfulness, Close bosom-friend of the maturing sun; Conspiring with him how to load and bless With fruit the vines that…

The Celtic Twilight: Mortal Help

by W. B. Yeats Belief and UnbeliefA VisionaryMortal Help One hears in the old poems of men taken away to help the gods in a battle, and Cuchullan won the goddess Fand for a while, by…