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Poems by Emily Dickinson: Going

by EmilyDickinsonA Country BurialXXVGoing Going On such a night, or such a night, Would anybody care If such a little figure Slipped quiet from its chair, So quiet, oh, how quiet! That…

Aesop's Fables: The Lion and the Mouse

by Aesop The Ass, the Fox, and the LionThe Crow and the PitcherThe Lion and the Mouse A Lion asleep in his lair was waked up by a Mouse running over his face. Losing his temper he seized…

Peter Pan: The Little House

The Island Come True The Home Under the Ground The Little House Foolish Tootles was standing like a conqueror over Wendy's body when the other boys sprang, armed, from their trees…

Chauncey Judd: Captain John Wooster's

Dayton's Den Tobiah and Rachel Captain John Wooster's John Wooster, or Captain John, as he was most frequently called, was one of the five brothers already named, viz., David, Henry,…

Sonnets by William Shakespeare: CLIII

Sonnet CLII Sonnet CLIV CLIII Cupid laid by his brand and fell asleep: A maid of Dian's this advantage found, And his love-kindling fire did quickly steep In a cold valley-fountain of…

Elizabeth Smart

Elizabeth Smart was kidnapped from her bedroom on June 5, 2002 by a gun-wielding stranger who had broken into her family's Salt Lake City home. Her kidnapping, and eventual recovery, became a major…

The Divine Comedy: Purgatorio: Canto IX

Purgatorio 42 - Purgatorio: Canto VIII Purgatorio: Canto X - 44 Purgatorio: Canto IX The concubine of old Tithonus now Gleamed white upon the eastern balcony, Forth from the arms…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Dirge for the Year

by Percy Bysshe Shelley To NightDirge for the Year Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824, and dated January 1, 1821. 1. Orphan Hours, the Year is dead, Come and sigh, come…

Home Again

Home AgainJuly had come, and haying begun; the little gardens were doing finely and the long summer days were full of pleasant hours. The house stood open from morning till night, and the…