Search

Search results

Displaying 261 - 270

The Koran/Sura XLII — Counsel

Sura XLII — Counsel Mecca — 53 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful HA. MIM. AIN. SIN. KAF.[704] Thus unto thee as unto those who preceded thee doth God, the Mighty…

Down the Columbia to Tidewater

Chapter 15 Chapter 17 Down the Columbia to Tidewater The voyagers were now drifting down the Columbia River, and they found the way impeded by many rapids, some of them very…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Quatrains

QuatrainsA.H.High was her heart, and yet was well inclined, Her manners made of bounty well refined; Far capitals and marble courts, her eye still seemed to see, Minstrels and kings and high-…

Snow-White and Rose-Red

Snow-White and Rose-Red There was once a poor widow who lived in a lonely cottage. In front of the cottage was a garden wherein stood two rose-trees, one of which bore white and the other red…

Chauncey Judd: Puritan Training

The Judd Family A Quilting Party Puritan Training In those days the means of education was scanty. For some years a school had been established in Judd's Meadow, to be kept a few weeks…

How Achilles made havoc among the men of Troy.

Book: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 How Achilles made havoc among the men of Troy.So by the beaked ships around thee, son of Peleus, hungry for war, the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: Threnody

ThrenodyThe South-wind brings Life, sunshine and desire, And on every mount and meadow Breathes aromatic fire; But over the dead he has no power, The lost, the lost, he cannot restore; And,…