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Percy Bysshe Shelley: Peter Bell, The Devil

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Death Hell The Devil The Devil, I safely can aver, Has neither hoof, nor tail, nor sting; Nor is he, as some sages swear, A spirit, neither here nor there, In nothing—…

Brewer's: Micah Rood's Apples

Apples with a spot of red (like blood) in the heart. Micah Rood was a prosperous farmer at Franklin. In 1693 a pedlar with jewellery called at his house, and next day was found murdered…

Walt Whitman: A Song of Joys

A Song of JoysO to make the most jubilant song! Full of music—full of manhood, womanhood, infancy! Full of common employments—full of grain and trees.O for the voices of animals—O for the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Musketaquid

MusketaquidBecause I was content with these poor fields, Low, open meads, slender and sluggish streams, And found a home in haunts which others scorned, The partial wood-gods overpaid my love…

Christina Rossetti: A Year's Windfalls

A Year's WindfallsOn the wind of January Down flits the snow, Travelling from the frozen North As cold as it can blow. Poor robin redbreast, Look where he comes; Let him in to feel your…

Song of Solomon: 4

Song of Solomon Chapter 4 1 Behold, thou art fair, my love; behold, thou art fair; thou hast doves' eyes within thy locks: thy hair is as a flock of goats, that appear from mount…

Christina Rossetti: Goblin Market

Goblin MarketMorning and evening Maids heard the goblins cry: 'Come buy our orchard fruits, Come buy, come buy: Apples and quinces, Lemons and oranges, Plump unpecked cherries, Melons and…

Walt Whitman: Song of the Universal

Song of the UniversalPart 1Come said the Muse, Sing me a song no poet yet has chanted, Sing me the universal.In this broad earth of ours, Amid the measureless grossness and the slag, Enclosed…

William Shakespeare: As You Like It, Act I

Act IScene IOrchard of Oliver's houseEnter Orlando and AdamOrlandoAs I remember, Adam, it was upon this fashion bequeathed me by will but poor a thousand crowns, and, as thou sayest, charged…