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Poems: The Tiger

by WilliamBlakeThe AngelMy Pretty Rose TreeThe Tiger Tiger, tiger, burning bright In the forest of the night, What immortal hand or eye Could Frame thy fearful symmetry? In what…

Anne Rice

In 1976 Anne Rice published Interview With The Vampire, and within a decade the book became the best-known vampire novel since Bram Stoker's Dracula. After her death, the Associated Press said that…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 7

Part 7Has any one supposed it lucky to be born? I hasten to inform him or her it is just as lucky to die, and I know it.I pass death with the dying and birth with the new-wash'd babe, and…

Walt Whitman: Book XXXI, Part 2

Part 2As a strong bird on pinions free, Joyous, the amplest spaces heavenward cleaving, Such be the thought I'd think of thee America, Such be the recitative I'd bring for thee.The conceits…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Security

SecurityThough her eye seek other forms And a glad delight below, Yet the love the world that warms Bids for me her bosom glow. She must love me till she find Another heart as large and true…

Sara Teasdale: The Wind in the Hemlock

The Wind in the HemlockSteely stars and moon of brass, How mockingly you watch me pass! You know as well as I how soon I shall be blind to stars and moon, Deaf to the wind in the hemlock tree…