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Coleridge: The Ancient Mariner

ChristabelThe Ancient Mariner The Latin motto is condensed, by omission, from about a page of Thomas Burnet's Archaeologiae Philosophicae: sive Doctrina Antiqua de Rerum Originibus,…

The Celtic Twilight: The Last Gleeman

by W. B. Yeats Happy and Unhappy TheologiansRegina, Regina Pigmeorum, VeniThe Last Gleeman Michael Moran was born about 1794 off Black Pitts, in the Liberties of Dublin, in Faddle Alley.…

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: 1789

by Robert Burns 178817901789ContentsRobin Shure In HairstOde, Sacred To The Memory Of Mrs. Oswald Of AuchencruivePegasus At WanlockheadSappho Redivivus-A FragmentSong-She's Fair And FauseImpromptu…

Poems from the Chinese

Ezra PoundAbstractThese poems, for the most part from the chinese of Rihaku (as contained in the notes of the late Ernest Fenollosa), appeard in Cathay, Lustra, and in The New Age.…

Homework Helper Answer Fun Facts: English

Homework Topics English | Geography | History | Math | Science | Social Studies English Literature Middle English Literature Anglo-Saxon Literature Literary Forms The Novel Short…

Brewer's: Bon gre mal gre

Willing or unwilling, willy nilly, nolens volens. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Bon MotBon Gaultier Ballads A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P…

Brewer's: Caballero

A Spanish dance, grave and stately; so called from the ballad-music to which it was danced. The ballad begins- “Esta noche le mataron al caballero.” Source: Dictionary of Phrase and…

Brewer's: Bombastus

The family name of Aureolus Paracelsus (1493-1541). He is said to have kept a small devil prisoner in the pommel of his sword. Bombastus kept a devil's bird Shut in the pommel of his sword…