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Andersen's Fairy Tales: The Little Match Girl

The ShadowThe Dream of Little TukThe Little Match Girl Most terribly cold it was; it snowed, and was nearly quite dark, and evening - the last evening of the year. In this cold and…

Andersen's Fairy Tales: The Happy Family

The Old HouseThe Story of a MotherThe Happy Family Really, the largest green leaf in this country is a dockleaf; if one holds it before one, it is like a whole apron, and if one holds it…

Amy Lowell: Paris, March, 1814

Paris, March, 1814Fine yellow sunlight down the rue du Mont Thabor. Ten o'clock striking from all the clock-towers of Paris. Over the door of a shop, in gilt letters: "Martin — Parfumeur",…

Say It with Flowers

If you send someone a single rose you are sending a message of love. You can send all kinds of messages with flowers. Florigraphy is the language of flowers. Hundreds of flowers and trees…

Class Day

Class DayThe clerk of the weather evidently has a regard for young people, and sends sunshine for class days as often as he can. An especially lovely one shone over Plumfield as this…

Amy Lowell: The Fruit Shop

The Fruit ShopCross-ribboned shoes; a muslin gown, High-waisted, girdled with bright blue; A straw poke bonnet which hid the frown She pluckered her little brows into As she picked her dainty…

The Koran/Sura LIII — The Star

Sura[147] LIII — The StarMecca — 62 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful By the STAR when it setteth, Your compatriot erreth not, nor is he led astray, Neither…

The Divine Comedy: Paradiso: Canto XXVII

Paradiso: Canto XXVIParadiso: Canto XXVIIIParadiso: Canto XXVII "Glory be to the Father, to the Son, And Holy Ghost!" all Paradise began, So that the melody inebriate made me. What I…

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…