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Aesop's Fables: The Ass Carrying the Image

by Aesop The Ass and the DogThe Athenian and the ThebanThe Ass Carrying the Image A certain man put an Image on the back of his Ass to take it to one of the temples of the town. As they…

John Keats: On the Sea

On Sitting Down to Read King L...On Visiting the Tomb of BurnsOn the Sea It keeps eternal whisperings around Desolate shores, and with its mighty swell Gluts twice ten thousand caverns,…

Perez Hilton

Name at birth: Mario Armando Lavandeira, Jr.Perez Hilton has described himself as "the Internet's most notorious gossip columnist." In the early 2000s his online gossip site has been one of the most…

Walt Whitman: Native Moments

Native MomentsNative moments—when you come upon me—ah you are here now, Give me now libidinous joys only, Give me the drench of my passions, give me life coarse and rank, To-day I go consort…

Sonnets by William Shakespeare: CXXIX

Sonnet CXXVIII Sonnet CXXX CXXIX The expense of spirit in a waste of shame Is lust in action: and till action, lust Is perjur'd, murderous, bloody, full of blame, Savage, extreme, rude…

Sonnets by William Shakespeare: XXXII

Sonnet XXXI Sonnet XXXIII XXXII If thou survive my well-contented day, When that churl Death my bones with dust shall cover And shalt by fortune once more re-survey These poor rude…

Sonnets by William Shakespeare: LXVI

Sonnet LXV Sonnet LXVII LXVI Tired with all these, for restful death I cry, As to behold desert a beggar born, And needy nothing trimm'd in jollity, And purest faith unhappily forsworn…