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The Celtic Twilight: Our Lady of the Hills

by W. B. Yeats The Eaters of Precious StonesThe Golden AgeOur Lady of the Hills When we were children we did not say at such a distance from the post- office, or so far from the butcher's…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Sunset

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Hymn to Intellectual BeautyThe Sunset There late was One within whose subtle being, As light and wind within some delicate cloud That fades amid the blue noon's…

Brewer's: Softly

To walk softly. To be out of spirits. In Greece, mourners for the dead used to cut off their hair, go about muffled, and walk softly to express want of spirit and strength. When Elijah…

Brewer's: Beasts

(Heraldic): Couchant lying down. Counter-passant, moving in opposite directions. Dormant, sleeping. Gardant, full-faced. Issuant, rising from the top or bottom of an ordinary. Nascent,…