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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…The Iliad of Homer: How Diomedes by his great valour made havoc of the Trojans, and wounded even Aphrodite and Ares by the help of Athene
Book 4 Book 6 How Diomedes by his great valour made havoc of the Trojans, and wounded even Aphrodite and Ares by the help of Athene. But now to Tydeus' son Diomedes Athene gave might…The bell rings out, and tells me in him, that I am dead
The bell rings out, and tells me in him, that I am deadAt Inde Mortuus Es, Sonitu Celeri, Pulsuque AgitatoMeditationJohn Donne THE bell rings out, the pulse thereof is changed; the tolling…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…Taittiriyaka-Upanishad: First Valli, Fourth Anuvaka
Fourth Anuvaka1. May he who is the strong bull of the Vedas, assuming all forms, who has risen from the Vedas, from the Immortal, may that Indra (lord) strengthen me with wisdom! May I, O God…Khandogya-Upanishad: Third Prapathaka, Twelfth Khanda
Twelfth Khanda1. The Gâyatrî (verse) is everything whatsoever here exists. Gâyatrî indeed is speech, for speech sings forth (gaya-ti) and protects (traya-te) everything that here exists.2.…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…