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Tender Troubles
Tender Troubles"Jo, I'm anxious about Beth.""Why, Mother, she has seemed unusually well since the babies came.""It's not her health that troubles me now, it's her spirits. I'm sure there is…William Shakespeare: Antony and Cleopatra, Act II, Scene VII
Scene VIIOn board Pompey's galley, off MisenumMusic plays. Enter two or three Servants with a banquetFirst ServantHere they'll be, man. Some o' their plants are ill-rooted already: the least…Peter Pan: The Never Bird
The Mermaids' Lagoon The Happy Home The Never Bird The last sound Peter heard before he was quite alone were the mermaids retiring one by one to their bedchambers under the sea. He…Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Sensitive Plant Part 3
by Percy Bysshe Shelley Part 2 Conclusion Part 3 Three days the flowers of the garden fair, Like stars when the moon is awakened, were, Or the waves of Baiae, ere luminous She floats up…Job: 14
Job Chapter 14 1 Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble. 2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not. 3 And dost…Reception of Ulysses at the Palace of King Alcinous - The Odyssey
The Meeting Between Nausicaa ... Banquet in the House of Alcin... Reception of Ulysses at the Palace of King Alcinous. Thus, then, did Ulysses wait and pray; but the girl drove on…Artistic Attempts
Artistic AttemptsIt takes people a long time to learn the difference between talent and genius, especially ambitious young men and women. Amy was learning this distinction through much…William Shakespeare: As You Like It, Act II, Scene VII
Scene VIIThe forestA table set out. Enter Duke Senior, Amiens, and Lords like outlawsDuke SeniorI think he be transform'd into a beast; For I can no where find him like a man.First LordMy…Walt Whitman: Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One Night
Vigil Strange I Kept on the Field One NightVigil strange I kept on the field one night; When you my son and my comrade dropt at my side that day, One look I but gave which your dear eyes…Christina Rossetti: Child's Talk in April
Child's Talk in AprilI wish you were a pleasant wren, And I your small accepted mate; How we'd look down on toilsome men! We'd rise and go to bed at eight Or it may be not quite so late…