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Ralph Waldo Emerson: Musketaquid

MusketaquidBecause I was content with these poor fields, Low, open meads, slender and sluggish streams, And found a home in haunts which others scorned, The partial wood-gods overpaid my love…

Walt Whitman: Give Me the Splendid Silent Sun

Give Me the Splendid Silent SunPart 1Give me the splendid silent sun with all his beams full-dazzling, Give me autumnal fruit ripe and red from the orchard, Give me a field where the unmow'd…

Walt Whitman: The Singer in the Prison

The Singer in the Prison O sight of pity, shame and dole! O fearful thought—a convict soul.Part 1Rang the refrain along the hall, the prison, Rose to the roof, the vaults of…

The Celtic Twilight: An Enduring Heart

by W. B. Yeats A Knight of the SheepThe SorcerersAn Enduring Heart One day a friend of mine was making a sketch of my Knight of the Sheep. The old man's daughter was sitting by, and, when…

Pronoun Reference: How's That Again?

How's That Again?Pronoun ReferenceIntroductionHow's That Again?It Just Proves There's Someone for EveryoneA Match Made in Writer's Heaven Read the following passage and summarize what it says.…

Brewer's: Chalk

I'll chalk out your path for you- i.e. lay it down or plan it out as a carpenter or ship-builder plans out his work with a piece of chalk. I can walk a chalk as well as you. I am no more…

Brewer's: Ropes

Fought back to the ropes. Fought to the bitter end. A pugilistic phrase. “It is a battle that must be fought game, and right back to the ropes.” —Boldrewood: Robbery Under Arms, chap.…