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Birth and Death of a Star

Astronomers think that a star begins to form as a dense cloud of gas in the arms of spiral galaxies. Individual hydrogen atoms fall with increasing speed and energy toward the center of the…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: April 24, 1805

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark April 23, 1805April 25, 1805April 24, 1805 Wednesday April 24th The wind blew so hard during the whole of this day, that we were unable to move.…

Amy Lowell: II

IIGallop! Gallop! The General brooks no delay. Make way, good people, and scatter out of his path, you, and your hens, and your dogs, and your children. The General is returned from Egypt…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Stanzas - April, 1814

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Stanza, Written at BracknellTo HarrietStanzas - April, 1814 Away! the moor is dark beneath the moon, Rapid clouds have drank the last pale beam of even: Away!…

The Celtic Twilight: The Sorcerers

by W. B. Yeats An Enduring HeartThe DevilThe Sorcerers In Ireland we hear but little of the darker powers,[FN#4] and come across any who have seen them even more rarely, for the…