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John Donne: Valediction to His Book
Valediction to His BookI'll tell thee now (dear love) what thou shalt do To anger destiny, as she doth us; How I shall stay, though she eloign me thus, And how posterity shall…Features Archive
Features by Category: Biography Business Entertainment Health & Science History & Gov't Society & Culture Sports United States World Search…Ralph Waldo Emerson: Solution
SolutionI am the Muse who sung alway By Jove, at dawn of the first day. Star-crowned, sole-sitting, long I wrought To fire the stagnant earth with thought: On spawning slime my song prevails…John Hall Wheelock: Earth
EarthJohn Hall WheelockGrasshopper, your fairy song And my poem alike belong To the dark and silent earth From which all poetry has birth; All we say and all we sing Is but as the murmuring…Brewer's: Aurora
Early morning. According to Grecian mythology, the goddess Aurora, called by Homer “rosy-fingered,” sets out before the sun, and is the pioneer of his rising. You cannot shut the windows…Brewer's: Hæmos
A range of mountains separating Thrace and Msia, called by the classic writers Cold Hmos. (Greek, cheimon, winter; Latin, hiems; Sanskrit, hima.) O'er high Pieria thence her course she…Brewer's: Hecuba
Second wife of Priam, and mother of nineteen children. When Troy was taken by the Greeks she fell to the lot of Ulysses. She was afterwards metamorphosed into a dog, and threw herself into…Year in Review, 1998: Top 10 Sports Moments of the Year, Part 2
Twenty-year-old Se Ri Pak acknow-ledges the gallery after finishing the second round of the U.S. Women's Open on July 3.6. Nykesha Sales Breaks the Record? It was really a cruel joke. Nykesha…Brewer's: Laughter
We are told that Jupiter, after his birth, laughed incessantly for seven days. Calchas, the Homeric soothsayer, died of laughter. The tale is that a fellow in rags told him he would never…Brewer's: Achilles' Tendon
A strong sinew running along the heel to the calf of the leg. The tale is that Thetis took her son Achilles by the heel, and dipped him in the river Styx to make him invulnerable. The…