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The Celtic Twilight: Dreams That Have No Moral

by W. B. Yeats The Friends of the People of FaeryBy the RoadsideDreams That Have No Moral The friend who heard about Maive and the hazel-stick went to the workhouse another day. She found…

The Song of Hiawatha: Hiawatha's Fishing

Hiawatha's Sailing Hiawatha and the Pearl-Feather Hiawatha's Fishing Forth upon the Gitche Gumee, On the shining Big-Sea-Water, With his fishing-line of cedar, Of the twisted bark…

Coleridge: Part III

Part IIPart IVPart III The ancient Mariner beholdeth a sign in the element afar off. There passed a weary time. Each throat Was parched, and glazed each eye. A weary time! a weary…

Eve

According to the Bible, Eve was the Earth's first woman and the mate of Adam in the Garden of Eden. In Genesis 2:21, God takes a rib from Adam and uses it to create Eve. Eve is tempted by Satan (in…

Charles Fort

Charles Hoy Fort was a writer who spent his time at the library, taking notes from scientific journals and formulating a response to what he considered their suppression of anomalous data. He became…

Amy Lowell: The Cross-Roads

The Cross-RoadsA bullet through his heart at dawn. On the table a letter signed with a woman's name. A wind that goes howling round the house, and weeping as in shame. Cold November dawn…

Thomas E. Selfridge

First Lieutenant Thomas E. Selfridge of the United States Army was a pioneer in the development of air travel and the first air crash fatality. A graduate of the West Point military academy,…

Tony Roma 2003 Deaths

Tony RomaAge: 78 restaurateur who turned his Florida barbecue establishment into an international chain of rib restaurants. Died: Hemet, Calif., June 13, 2003Fred RogersR - ZBurns “Bud” Roper…

Composite Volcanoes

Composite volcanoes, sometimes called stratovolcanoes, are typically deep-sided, symmetrical cones of large dimension built of alternating layers of lava flows, volcanic ash, cinders, blocks…