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Brewer's: Forget-me-nots of the Angels
The stars are so called by Longfellow. The similitude between a little lightblue flower and the yellow stars is very remote. Stars are more like buttercups than forget-me-nots. Silently,…Brewer's: Ladies' Smocks
Garden cress, botanically called Cardamine, a diminutive of the Greek kardamon, called in Latin nasturtium, sometimes called Nose-smart (Kara-damon, head-afflicting); so nasturtium is…Brewer's: Fairy Rings
Circles of rank or withered grass, often seen in lawns, meadows, and grass-plots. Said to be produced by the fairies dancing on the spot. In sober truth, these rings are simply an agaric…The Song of Hiawatha: Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis
Hiawatha's Childhood Hiawatha's Fasting Hiawatha and Mudjekeewis Out of childhood into manhood Now had grown my Hiawatha, Skilled in all the craft of hunters, Learned in all the…Entertainment News from May 1998
1Uma Thurman and Ethan Hawke marry in a candlelit ceremony at New York's Cathedral of St. John the Divine. They are expecting their first child in July. It is the first marriage for Hawke and…The True George Washington: Farmer and Proprietor: Livestock
LivestockA stud stable was from an early time maintained, and the Virginia papers regularly advertised that the stud horse "Samson," "Magnolia," "Leonidas," "Traveller," or whatever the…The Journals of Lewis & Clark: August 8, 1805
by Meriwether Lewis and William Clark August 7, 1805August 9, 1805August 8, 1805 Thursday August 8th 1805. We had a heavy dew this morning. as one canoe had been left we had now more…John Keats: Ode to a Nightingale
by John Keats Ode on a Grecian UrnOde to a Nightingale My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk, Or emptied some dull opiate to the…Percy Bysshe Shelley: Arethusa
by Percy Bysshe Shelley To -Song of Proserpine While Gathe...Arethusa Published by Mrs. Shelley, "Posthumous Poems", 1824, and dated by her 'Pisa, 1820.' There is a fair draft amongst the…Brewer's: April Fool
Called in France un poisson d'Avril (q.v.), and in Scotland a gowk (cuckoo). In Hindustan similar tricks are played at the Huli Festival (March 31st). So that it cannot refer to the…Trending
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