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Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Sleeping Flowers

by EmilyDickinsonAprilMy RoseThe Sleeping Flowers The Sleeping Flowers "Whose are the little beds," I asked, "Which in the valleys lie?" Some shook their heads, and others smiled, And no…

Brewer's: Disaster

is being under an evil star (Greek, dus-aster, evil star). An astrological word. “The stars in their courses fought against Sisera.” -Judges v. 20. Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…

Brewer's: Vanessa

is Miss Esther Vanhomrigh, and Cadenus is Dean Swift. While he was still married to Stella [Miss Hester Johnson, whose tutor he had been] Miss Vanhomrigh fell in love with him, and…

Words of Five Letters

Try the Find a Word: Crossword Search Abode of dead: Babylonian, ARALUAborigine: Borneo, DAYAKAftersong, EPODEAloe, AGAVEAnimal: Footless, APODEAnt, EMMETAntelope: African, ADDAX, BEISA,…

Amy Lowell: Patterns

PatternsI walk down the garden paths, And all the daffodils Are blowing, and the bright blue squills. I walk down the patterned garden-paths In my stiff, brocaded gown. With my powdered hair…

Medical Maggots, Menacing Asteroids

Information Please's roundup of recent discoveries by Otto Johnson It seems the latest discoveries in our annual roundup are either mutant size-busters or minor portents of disaster.…

Sara Teasedale: Sappho I

Sappho IMidnight, and in the darkness not a sound, So, with hushed breathing, sleeps the autumn night; Only the white immortal stars shall know, Here in the house with the low-lintelled door…

Amy Lowell: Frindsbury, Kent, 1786

Frindsbury, Kent, 1786Bang! Bang! Tap! Tap-a-tap! Rap! All through the lead and silver Winter days, All through the copper of Autumn hazes. Tap to the red rising sun, Tap to the purple…

mitosis

(Encyclopedia) CE5 Mitosis in a body cell of an animal mitosismitosismītōˈsĭs, mĭ– [key], process of nuclear division in a living cell by which the carriers of hereditary information, or the…