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Sara Teasdale: The Broken Field

The Broken FieldMy soul is a dark ploughed field In the cold rain; My soul is a broken field Ploughed by pain.Where grass and bending flowers Were growing, The field lies broken now For…

Hsing-Hsing Biography

Hsing-HsingAge: 28 giant panda that was a gift from China to Washington's National Zoo as a goodwill gesture honoring President Nixon's visit to China. He was euthanized after a painful bout…

Sara Teasedale: Doctors

DoctorsEvery night I lie awake And every day I lie abed And hear the doctors, Pain and Death, Conferring at my head.They speak in scientific tones, Professional and low— One argues…

Aesop's Fables: The Nightingale and the Swallow

by Aesop The Goatherd and the Wild GoatsThe Traveller and FortuneThe Nightingale and the Swallow A Swallow, conversing with a Nightingale, advised her to quit the leafy coverts where she…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Apocalypse

by EmilyDickinsonResurrectionThe WifeApocalypse Apocalypse I'm wife; I've finished that, That other state; I'm Czar, I'm woman now: It's safer so. How odd the girl's life looks Behind…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Consecration

Love's Humility Consecration Proud of my broken heart since thou didst break it, Proud of the pain I did not feel till thee, Proud of my night since thou with moons dost slake it…

Heavy

Columbia TriStar; rental pricingFeature; NRDirector: James MangoldCast: Liv Tyler, Pruitt Taylor Vince, Shelley Winters and Evan Dando Mangold's debut chronicles the small-town inertia of a…

Oldest School in America

The Question: The first public school was established in 1635. In which city was this school? The Answer: Boston Latin School in Boston, Mass. is the…

Dorothea Lange Biography

Dorothea LangephotographerBorn: 1895 Dorothea Lange is renowned for her haunting photographs of migrant workers, farmers, and other who suffered through the Great Depression. Her pained “…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: March 8, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark March 7, 1806March 9, 1806March 8, 1806 Saturday March 8th 1806. Bratton is much better today, his back gives him but little pain. Collins…