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Walt Whitman: Thoughts ("Of public opinion")

ThoughtsOf public opinion, Of a calm and cool fiat sooner or later, (how impassive! how certain and final!) Of the President with pale face asking secretly to himself, What will the…

George Sylvester Viereck: The Buried City

The Buried CityGeorge Sylvester ViereckMy heart is like a city of the gay Reared on the ruins of a perished one Wherein my dead loves cower from the sun, White-swathed like kings, the…

Odell Shepard: A Nun

A NunOdell ShepardOne glance and I had lost her in the riot Of tangled cries. She trod the clamor with a cloistral quiet Deep in her eyes As though she heard the muted music only…

Alice Bauer 2002 Deaths

Alice BauerAge: 35 one of the 13 founding members of the Ladies Professional Golf Association; colorful and outgoing, she began her career by touring the country in the 1940s with her sister…

Poem: The Hemlock

Poem 73 Poem 75 The Hemlock I think the hemlock likes to stand Upon a marge of snow; It suits his own austerity, And satisfies an awe That men must slake in wilderness, Or in the desert…

Aesop's Fables: The Bear and the Travellers

by Aesop The Gnat and the BullThe Slave and the LionThe Bear and the Travellers Two Travellers were on the road together, when a Bear suddenly appeared on the scene. Before he observed…