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John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale

by John Keats Ode on a Grecian UrnOde to a Nightingale My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the…

Sara Teasdale: Open Windows

Open WindowsOut of the window a sea of green trees Lift their soft boughs like the arms of a dancer, They beckon and call me, "Come out in the sun!" But I cannot answer.I am alone with…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Power

Philosophy LI Power You cannot put a fire out; A thing that can ignite Can go, itself, without a fan Upon the slowest night. You cannot fold a flood And put it in a drawer…

The Philosophy of Antoninus

The Philosophy of Antoninus by George Long, M. A. IT has been said that the Stoic philosophy first showed its real value when it passed from Greece to Rome. The doctrines of Zeno and his…

Flatland: Of the Doctrine of our Priests

by Edwin A. Abbott Concerning our PriestsOf the Doctrine of our Priests As to the doctrine of the Circles it may briefly be summed up in a single maxim, “Attend to your Configuration.“…

Federalist No. 31

No 30 No 32 The Same Subject Continued (Concerning the General Power of Taxation) From the New York Packet.Tuesday, January 1, 1788.Hamilton To the People of the State…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Life

LifeA train of gay and clouded days Dappled with joy and grief and praise, Beauty to fire us, saints to save, Escort us to a little grave. No fate, save by the victim's fault, is low, For God…

Brutus VIII

Brutus VIII10 January 1788by BrutusSee also Federalist No. 23The next powers vested by this constitution in the general government, which we shall consider, are those, which authorise them to…