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Walt Whitman: I Was Looking a Long While
I Was Looking a Long WhileI was looking a long while for Intentions, For a clew to the history of the past for myself, and for these chants—and now I have found it, It is not in those…A Boy's Will: Revelation
by Robert Frost Going for WaterThe Trial by ExistenceRevelation He resolves to become intelligible, at least to himself, since there is no help else; WE make ourselves a place apart…The Devil's Dictionary: Introduction
by Ambrose Bierce INTIMACYINVENTORINTRODUCTION -n. A social ceremony invented by the devil for the gratification of his servants and the plaguing of his enemies. The introduction attains…Sylvia Beach
Name at birth: Macy Woodbridge BeachSylvia Beach was an American in Paris whose bookshop was a beacon for the literary elite of the period between World War I and World War II. She famously published…Susan Lucci
Susan Lucci began playing Erica Kane on the soap opera All My Children in 1970. As played by Lucci, Kane was a slinky, sneaky temptress and soon became the show's signature schemer. As the years…Josephine Baker
Name at birth: Freda Josephine BakerA force of nature who sometimes performed au naturel, Josephine Baker was a star dancer, singer, and burlesque entertainer in Paris for most of her adult life.…John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book VII
Book VII Descend from Heav'n URANIA, by that name If rightly thou art call'd, whose Voice divine Following, above th' OLYMPIAN Hill I soare, Above the flight of PEGASEAN wing. The meaning,…The Fundamental Principle of a Republic
by Anna Howard Shaw Shaw delivered this speech during the 1915 New York State equal suffrage campaign at a fully packed City Opera House in Ogdenburg on the evening of June 21. The…William Shakespeare: Your love and pity doth the impression fill
Your love and pity doth the impression fillYour love and pity doth the impression fill, Which vulgar scandal stamp'd upon my brow; For what care I who calls me well or ill, So you o'er-green…William Shakespeare: Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly
Music to hear, why hear'st thou music sadlyMusic to hear, why hear'st thou music sadly? Sweets with sweets war not, joy delights in joy: Why lov'st thou that which thou receiv'st not gladly,…Trending
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