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The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun

The Nymph Complaining for the Death of Her Faun The wanton Troopers riding by Have shot my Faun and it will dye. Ungentle men! They cannot thrive To kill thee. Thou neer didst alive Them any…

Rumpelstiltskin

Rumpelstiltskin By the side of a wood, in a country a long way off, ran a fine stream of water; and upon the stream there stood a mill. The miller's house was close by, and the miller, you…

John Donne: Expostulation XV. Interea insomnes

ExpostulationJohn Donne MY God, my God, I know (for thou hast said it) that “he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep”: [Ps. 121:4] but shall not that Israel, over whom thou…

Lewis Carroll: CANTO VI—Dyscomfyture

CANTO VI—DyscomfytureAs one who strives a hill to climb, Who never climbed before: Who finds it, in a little time, Grow every moment less sublime, And votes the thing a bore:Yet, having once…

A the Heart of the Continent

Chapter 10 Chapter 12 A the Heart of the Continent Captain Clark continued his observations up the long series of rapids and falls until he came to a group of three small…

Tales from Shakespeare: As You Like It

As You Like It During the time that France was divided into provinces (or dukedoms, as they were called) there reigned in one of these provinces a usurper who had deposed and banished his…

John Milton - Paradise Lost: Book IX

Book IX Meanwhile the hainous and despightfull act Of SATAN done in Paradise, and how Hee in the Serpent had perverted EVE, Her Husband shee, to taste the fatall fruit, Was known in Heav'n;…