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Falkberget, Johan

(Encyclopedia) Falkberget, JohanFalkberget, Johanyōˈhän fälkˈbĕrgə [key], 1879–1967, Norwegian novelist. Falkberget's early poverty and toil in the mines colored all his works. The trilogies…

A Midsummer Night's Dream, Summary

A Midsummer Night's Dream There was a law in the city of Athens which gave to its citizens the power of compelling their daughters to marry whomsoever they pleased; for upon a daughter's…

Sara Teasdale: Day and Night

Day and NightIn Warsaw in Poland Half the world away, The one I love best of all Thought of me to-day;I know, for I went Winged as a bird, In the wide flowing wind His own voice I heard;…

Sara Teasdale: June Night

June NightOh Earth, you are too dear to-night, How can I sleep while all around Floats rainy fragrance and the far Deep voice of the ocean that talks to the ground?Oh Earth, you gave me all…

Sara Teasdale: The Nights Remember

The Nights RememberThe days remember and the nights remember The kingly hours that once you made so great, Deep in my heart they lie, hidden in their splendor, Buried like sovereigns in…

Amy Lowell: Night and Sleep

Night and SleepThe day takes her ease in slippered yellow. Electric signs gleam out along the shop fronts, following each other. They grow, and grow, and blow into patterns of fire-flowers…

Walt Whitman: On the Beach at Night

On the Beach at NightOn the beach at night, Stands a child with her father, Watching the east, the autumn sky.Up through the darkness, While ravening clouds, the burial clouds, in black…

Walt Whitman: Night on the Prairies

Night on the PrairiesNight on the prairies, The supper is over, the fire on the ground burns low, The wearied emigrants sleep, wrapt in their blankets; I walk by myself—I stand and look at…

Poems: Rhapsody on a Windy Night

by T. S. Eliot PreludesMorning at the WindowRhapsody on a Windy Night Twelve o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Disolve the…