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Ridgely Torrence: Eye-Witness

Eye-WitnessRidgely TorrenceDown by the railroad in a green valley By dancing water, there he stayed awhile Singing, and three men with him, listeners, All tramps, all homeless reapers of the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Walden

WaldenIn my garden three ways meet, Thrice the spot is blest; Hermit-thrush comes there to build, Carrier-doves to nest. There broad-armed oaks, the copses' maze, The cold sea-wind…

Amy Lowell: Teatro Bambino

Teatro BambinoDublin, N. H.How still it is! Sunshine itself here falls In quiet shafts of light through the high trees Which, arching, make a roof above the walls Changing from sun to…

What the Thunder Said

What the Thunder Said[41]After the torchlight red on sweaty faces After the frosty silence in the gardens After the agony in stony places The shouting and the crying Prison and palace and…

The Journals of Lewis & Clark: July 12, 1806

by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark July 11, 1806July 13, 1806July 12, 1806 July 12th 1806. we arrose early and resumed our operations in compleating our canoes which we completed…

Brewer's: Ouzel

The blackbird; sometimes the thrush is so called. (Anglo-Saxon, osle, a blackbird.) Bottom speaks of the “ousel cock, so black of hue with orange tawny bill.” (Midsummer Night's Dream.)…