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Aesop's Fables: The Traveller and Fortune

by Aesop The Nightingale and the SwallowThe Traveller and Fortune A Traveller, exhausted with fatigue after a long journey, sank down at the very brink of a deep well and presently fell…

The Devil's Dictionary: Keep

by Ambrose Bierce KILLKEEP -v.t. He willed away his whole estate, And then in death he fell asleep, Murmuring: "Well, at any rate, My name unblemished I shall keep."…

Aesop's Fables: The Crow and the Snake

by Aesop The Monkey and the DolphinThe Dogs and the FoxThe Crow and the Snake A hungry Crow spied a Snake lying asleep in a sunny spot, and, picking it up in his claws, he was carrying it…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: A Fragment: To Music

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Fragment: To One SingingAnother Fragment: To MusicA Fragment: To Music Published in "Poetical Works", 1839, 1st edition. Dated 1817 (Mrs. Shelley). Silver key of…

Sara Teasedale: At Night

At NightWe are apart; the city grows quiet between us, She hushes herself, for midnight makes heavy her eyes, The tangle of traffic is ended, the cars are empty, Five streets divide us…

Aesop's Fables: The Shipwrecked Man and the Sea

by Aesop The Traveller and His DogThe Wild Boar and the FoxThe Shipwrecked Man and the Sea A Shipwrecked Man cast up on the beach fell asleep after his struggle with the waves. When he…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Spirit

by EmilyDickinsonAsleepThe MonumentThe Spirit The Spirit 'T is whiter than an Indian pipe, 'T is dimmer than a lace; No stature has it, like a fog, When you approach the place. Not…