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Walt Whitman: The First Dandelion

The First DandelionSimple and fresh and fair from winter's close emerging, As if no artifice of fashion, business, politics, had ever been, Forth from its sunny nook of shelter'd grass—…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Sleeping

by EmilyDickinsonLVIRetrospectSleeping Sleeping A long, long sleep, a famous sleep That makes no show for dawn By stretch of limb or stir of lid, — An independent one. Was ever…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Mountain

by EmilyDickinsonTwo WorldsA DayThe Mountain The Mountain The mountain sat upon the plain In his eternal chair, His observation omnifold, His inquest everywhere. The seasons prayed…

Earliest Dinosaur:

Eoraptor lunensisMeaning of Name: “dawn plunderer”Period:Triassic Period (240 to 205 million years ago)Size:1 meter longLocation:Argentina The earliest known dinosaur was Eoraptor lunensis,…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Fragment: A Tale Untold

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: RainFragment: To ItalyFragment: A Tale Untold Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Poetical Works", 1839, 2nd edition. One sung of thee who left the tale untold…

The Devil's Dictionary: Experience

by Ambrose Bierce A transientEXPOSTULATIONEXPERIENCE n. The wisdom that enables us to recognize as an undesirable old acquaintance the folly that we have already embraced. To one who,…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: March

by EmilyDickinsonTo MarchDawnMarch March We like March, his shoes are purple, He is new and high; Makes he mud for dog and peddler, Makes he forest dry; Knows the adder's tongue his…

Mifflin, Lloyd

Mifflin, Lloyd[1846-1921](2)Born at Columbia, Pennsylvania, September 15, 1846. He was educated at Washington Classical Institute and studied art abroad. His chief work in poetry has been in…