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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Song of Nature

Song of NatureMine are the night and morning, The pits of air, the gulf of space, The sportive sun, the gibbous moon, The innumerable days. I hide in the solar glory, I am dumb in the pealing…

Walt Whitman: A Song for Occupations, Part 5

Part 5Will the whole come back then? Can each see signs of the best by a look in the looking-glass? is there nothing greater or more? Does all sit there with you, with the mystic unseen…

Primary Sources

The Boston Public Library is the oldest major public library in the U.S., and the third largest after the LOC and NYPL. Sometimes you have to go straight to the source. That's why Infoplease has…

Brewer's: Bawbee

Whall hire, whall hire, whall hire me? Three plumps and a wallop for ae bawbee. The tale is that the people of Kirkmahoe were so poor, they could not afford to put any meat into their…

Brewer's: Jemmy

a name found in engravings of the eighteenth century, was James Worsdale, the painter and dramatic writer (died 1767). A housebreaker's crowbar. A variant of Jimmy, Jenny, Jinnie, and a…