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Walt Whitman: One Hour to Madness and Joy
One Hour to Madness and JoyOne hour to madness and joy! O furious! O confine me not! (What is this that frees me so in storms? What do my shouts amid lightnings and raging winds mean?) O to…Poem: In Vain
Poem 37 Poem 39 In Vain I CANNOT live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf The sexton keeps the key to, Putting up Our life, his porcelain, Like a cup…Giovanni di Paolo
(Encyclopedia) Giovanni di PaoloGiovanni di Paolojōvänˈnē dē päˈōlō [key], c.1403–1483, major Italian painter of the Sienese school. Typical of the Sienese painters of his era, he paid scant…Lubitsch, Ernst
(Encyclopedia) Lubitsch, ErnstLubitsch, Ernstl&oomacr;ˈbĭch [key], 1892–1947, German-American film director, b. Berlin. He studied acting in his native city and in 1911 joined Max Reinhardt's…Brewer's: Serbonian Bog
or Serbonis. A mess from which there is no way of extricating oneself. The Serbonian bog was between Egypt and Palestine. Strabo calls it a lake, and says it was 200 stadia long, and 50…Shakespeare Through the Ages
The Bard is inescapable. If youve been to an English-speaking secondary school, theres an overwhelming chance that you or your loved ones have been exposed to hefty doses of Shakespeare.…Robert Graves: John Skelton
John SkeltonWhat could be dafter Than John Skelton's laughter? What sound more tenderly Than his pretty poetry? So where to rank old Skelton? He was no monstrous Milton, Nor wrote no "…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Note on Poems Of 1816, By Mrs. Shelley
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment of a Ghost StoryNote on Poems Of 1816, By Mrs. Shelley Shelley wrote little during this year. The poem entitled "The Sunset" was written in the spring of…Poems by Emily Dickinson: In Vain
by EmilyDickinsonThe OutletRenunciationIn Vain In Vain I cannot live with you, It would be life, And life is over there Behind the shelf The sexton keeps the key to, Putting up Our life…Brewer's: Nine
Nine, five, and three are mystical numbers- the diapason, diapente, and diatrion of the Greeks. Nine consists of a trinity of trinities. According to the Pythagorean numbers, man is a full…Trending
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