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Louis Untermeyer: How much of Godhood

How much of GodhoodLouis UntermeyerHow much of Godhood did it take — What purging epochs had to pass, Ere I was fit for leaf and lake And worthy of the patient grass?What mighty travails…

Orrick Johns: Little Things

Little ThingsOrrick JohnsThere's nothing very beautiful and nothing very gay About the rush of faces in the town by day, But a light tan cow in a pale green mead, That is very beautiful,…

Mighty Mighty Bosstones

Pay AttentionIsland It's true that their furious brand of ska-punk can be about as subtle as a flying brick. But the Mighty Mighty Bosstones have always been a terrifically talented band, and…

William G. ANGEL, Congress, NY (1790-1858)

ANGEL William G. , a Representative from New York; born in New Shoreham, Block Island, R.I., July 17, 1790; moved with his parents to Litchfield, Otsego County, N.Y., in 1792; attended the…

Robert Haven Schauffler: Earth's Easter

Earth's Easter(1915)Robert Haven SchaufflerEarth has gone up from its Gethsemane, And now on Golgotha is crucified; The spear is twisted in the tortured side; The thorny crown still works…

Olive Tilford Dargan: There's Rosemary

There's RosemaryOlive Tilford DarganO love that is not Love, but dear, so dear! That is not love because it goes full soon, Like flower born and dead within one moon, And yet is love, for…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Bridal Song

by Percy Bysshe Shelley To -EpithalamiumA Bridal Song Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824. 1. The golden gates of Sleep unbar Where Strength and Beauty, met together,…

Salma Hayek Biography

Salma Hayek actressBorn: 9/2/1966Birthplace: Coatzacoalcos, Mexico Actress who left a blooming career in her native Mexico to conquer Hollywood, and has become perhaps the best-known Mexican-…

NASA's 50th Anniversary

Celebrating NASA's birthday with fantastic slideshows featuring astronauts, spacecrafts, moons, planets, and more by Mark Hughes A wake up call came to the American people in 1957, when the…

Olivia De Havilland Biography

Olivia De HavillandactressBorn: 7/1/1916Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan The sister of actress Joan Fontaine, she is probably best remembered as the long-suffering Melanie in Gone With the Wind (1939). She…