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Enchanted Mesa

(Encyclopedia) Enchanted Mesa, sandstone butte, 430 ft (131 m) high, central N.Mex., near the pueblo of Acoma; called Mesa Encantada in Spanish and Katzimo or Kadzima by the Native Americans.…

A Boy's Will: A Line-storm Song

by Robert Frost Now Close the WindowsOctoberA Line-storm Song It is the autumnal mood with a difference. THE line-storm clouds fly tattered and swift, The road is forlorn all day,…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: A Thunder-Storm

by EmilyDickinsonXXXVIWith FlowersA Thunder-Storm A Thunder-Storm The wind begun to rock the grass With threatening tunes and low, — He flung a menace at the earth, A menace at the sky.…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Snow-Storm

The Snow-StormAnnounced by all the trumpets of the sky, Arrives the snow, and, driving o'er the fields, Seems nowhere to alight: the whited air Hides hills and woods, the river, and the…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: The Soul's Storm

by EmilyDickinsonXLIXLIThe Soul's Storm The Soul's Storm It struck me every day The lightning was as new As if the cloud that instant slit And let the fire through. It burned me in…

Maplewood

(Encyclopedia) Maplewood. 1 Village (1990 pop. 30,954), Ramsey co., SE Minn., a growing residential suburb of St. Paul; inc. 1957. 2 City (1990 pop. 9,962), St. Louis co., E Mo., a suburb of St.…

Yáñez, Agustín

(Encyclopedia) Yáñez, AgustínYáñez, Agustínäg&oomacr;stēnˈ yäˈnyās [key], 1904–80, Mexican novelist and critic. Yáñez's writings include works about Native American myths and the Spanish colonial…

blizzard

(Encyclopedia) blizzard, winter storm characterized by high winds, low temperatures, and driving snow; according to the official definition given in 1958 by the U.S. Weather Bureau, the winds must…