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Send us your best poetry about the neverending presidential race Readers' Poetry: All of the lies that I'm crafting Overshadow the laws that I'm drafting. But in 2001 When my two terms…The Devil's Dictionary: Monosyllabic
by Ambrose Bierce MONKEYMONSIGNORMONOSYLLABIC -adj. Composed of words of one syllable, for literary babes who never tire of testifying their delight in the vapid compound by appropriate…The Czardas Dance
The Question: I am trying to identify the Russian dance where the "dancers" have their arms crossed in front of them while they bouncing up and down and…Poems by Emily Dickinson: V ("On this long storm")
by EmilyDickinsonIVFrom the ChrysalisV On this long storm the rainbow rose, On this late morn the sun; The clouds, like listless elephants, Horizons straggled down. The birds rose…Poems by Emily Dickinson: XXXIV ("Superfluous were the sun")
by EmilyDickinsonXXXIIIXXXVXXXIV Superfluous were the sun When excellence is dead; He were superfluous every day, For every day is said That syllable whose faith Just saves it from…Poems by Emily Dickinson (Third Series): The Brain
by EmilyDickinsonXLIIXLIVThe Brain The Brain The brain is wider than the sky, For, put them side by side, The one the other will include With ease, and you beside. The brain is…Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 16
Part 16On my way a moment I pause, Here for you! and here for America! Still the present I raise aloft, still the future of the States I harbinge glad and sublime, And for the past I…Poems by Emily Dickinson (Third Series): Forgotten
by EmilyDickinsonIXXIForgotten Forgotten There is a word Which bears a sword Can pierce an armed man. It hurls its barbed syllables,— At once is mute again. But where it fell The…Walt Whitman: Yonnondio
YonnondioA song, a poem of itself—the word itself a dirge, Amid the wilds, the rocks, the storm and wintry night, To me such misty, strange tableaux the syllables calling up; Yonnondio—I see…Khandogya-Upanishad: Second Prapathaka, Eighth Khanda
Eighth Khanda1. Next for the sevenfold Saman. Let a man meditate on the sevenfold Saman in speech. Whenever there is in speech the syllable hun, that is hinkara, pra is the prastava, a is the…Trending
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