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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…

Robert Bourque 2003 Deaths

Robert BourqueAge: 82 creator of Zoltan the Astrological Wizard, a mechanical fortune-telling contraption that amused customers at penny arcades before the dawn of the electronic age. Died:…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: XVI ("To fight aloud")

by Emily Dickinson The Lonely House Dawn XVI To fight aloud is very brave, But gallanter, I know, Who charge within the bosom, The cavalry of woe. Who win, and nations do not see, Who fall,…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: XLVII ("Adrift!")

by EmilyDickinsonDyingXLVIIIXLVII Adrift! A little boat adrift! And night is coming down! Will no one guide a little boat Unto the nearest town? So sailors say, on yesterday, Just…

Sara Teasdale: The Tree

The TreeOh to be free of myself, With nothing left to remember, To have my heart as bare As a tree in December;Resting, as a tree rests After its leaves are gone, Waiting no more for a…

Thomas Walsh: In the Mushroom Meadows

In the Mushroom MeadowsThomas WalshSun on the dewy grasslands where late the frost hath shone, And lo, what elfin cities are these we come upon! What pigmy domes and thatches, what Arab…

A Boy's Will: Stars

by Robert Frost A Late WalkStorm FearStars There is no oversight of human affairs. HOW countlessly they congregate O'er our tumultuous snow, Which flows in shapes as tall as trees…

The Devil's Dictionary: Satan

by Ambrose Bierce SARCOPHAGUSSATIETYSATAN -n. One of the Creator's lamentable mistakes, repented in sashcloth and axes. Being instated as an archangel, Satan made himself multifariously…

The Devil's Dictionary: Woman

by Ambrose Bierce WITTICISMWORMS'-MEATWOMAN -n. An animal usually living in the vicinity of Man, and having a rudimentary susceptibility to domestication It is credited by many of the…