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Christina Rossetti: The Convent Threshold

The Convent ThresholdThere's blood between us, love, my love, There's father's blood, there's brother's blood; And blood's a bar I cannot pass: I choose the stairs that mount above, Stair…

Deuteronomy: 19

Deuteronomy Chapter 19 1 When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in…

Tales from Shakespeare: Macbeth

Macbeth When Duncan the Meek reigned King of Scotland there lived a great thane, or lord, called Macbeth. This Macbeth was a near kinsman to the king, and in great esteem at court for his…

The Visit to the Dead - The Odyssey

Aeolus, the Laestrygones, Circe. The Sirens, Scylla and Charyb... The Visit to the Dead. [1] "Then, when we had got down to the sea shore we drew our ship into the water and got…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Exposition, Part 9

Part 9And thou, the Emblem waving over all! Delicate beauty, a word to thee, (it may be salutary,) Remember thou hast not always been as here to-day so comfortably ensovereign'd, In other…

1 Kings: 2

1 Kings Chapter 2 1 Now the days of David drew nigh that he should die; and he charged Solomon his son, saying, 2 I go the way of all the earth: be thou strong therefore, and shew thyself a man…

William Shakespeare: Henry V, Act III, Scene I

Scene IFrance. Before HarfleurAlarum. Enter King Henry, Exeter, Bedford, Gloucester, and Soldiers, with scaling-laddersKing Henry VOnce more unto the breach, dear friends, once more; Or close…

Poems: The Hippopotamus

by T. S. Eliot Lune de MielDans le RestaurantThe Hippopotamus Similiter et omnes revereantur Diaconos, ut mandatum Jesu Christi; et Episcopum, ut Jesum Christum, existentem…

The True George Washington: Physique: His Death

His DeathWashington's final illness began December 12, 1799, in a severe cold taken by riding about his plantation while "rain, hail and snow" were "falling alternately, with a cold wind."…