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John Keats: The Poet

Over the Hill and Over the DaleSongThe Poet A Fragment Where’s the Poet? show him! show him, Muses nine! that I may know him! ’Tis the man who with a man Is an equal, be he King Or…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Informing Spirit

The Informing SpiritIThere is no great and no small To the Soul that maketh all: And where it cometh, all things are; And it cometh everywhere.III am owner of the sphere, Of the seven stars…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Adonais Overview

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Epipsychidion Hellas Adonais Aster prin men elampes eni zooisin Eoos nun de thanon lampeis Esperos en phthimenois.-PLATO. Preface Adonais Cancelled Passages of…

Percy MacKaye: The Automobile

The AutomobilePercy MacKayeFluid the world flowed under us: the hills Billow on billow of umbrageous green Heaved us, aghast, to fresh horizons, seen One rapturous instant, blind with…

Pablo Escobar

Colombian Pablo Escobar became one of the world's richest men by distributing cocaine throughout the Americas from the late 1970s until his death in 1993. Pablo Escobar grew up outside the city of…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: In a Library

by EmilyDickinsonIXXIIn a Library In a Library A precious, mouldering pleasure 't is To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand…

Poem: In a Library

Poem 9 Poem 11 In a Library A precious, mouldering pleasure 'tis To meet an antique book, In just the dress his century wore; A privilege, I think, His venerable hand to take, And…

Queen Elizabeth II's Death...and Telling the Bees

Top of Page Source: iStockAfter the death of Queen Elizabeth II, Britain’s late monarch, several processes were put into motion. Once her passing at Scotland’s Balmoral Castle was announced at 6:31 p…

Why We Study Poetry

Everyone, at some point in their life, has probably questioned the value of poetry (including this writer). Among the many accusations leveled against poetry are that it is frivolous in comparison…