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The Devil's Dictionary: Manna

by Ambrose Bierce MANICHEISMMARRIAGEMANNA -n. A food miraculously given to the Israelites in the wilderness. When it was no longer supplied to them they settled down and tilled the soil,…

Tom Bosley

Tom Bosley won a Tony Award in 1958 for his lead role as New York mayor Fiorello LaGuardia in the Broadway musical Fiorello!. But Tom Bosley is better remembered for his role on the long-running TV…

Walt Whitman: Good-Bye My Fancy (Poem)

Good-Bye My FancyGood-bye my fancy—(I had a word to say, But 'tis not quite the time—The best of any man's word or say, Is when its proper place arrives—and for its meaning, I keep mine till…

William Shakespeare: Hamlet, Act V

Act VScene IA churchyardEnter two Clowns, with spades, &cFirst ClownIs she to be buried in Christian burial that wilfully seeks her own salvation?Second ClownI tell thee she is: and…

Upon Appleton House

Upon Appleton HouseTo My Lord Fairfax Within this sober Frame expect Work of no Forrain Architect; That unto Caves the Quarries drew, And Forrests did to Pastures hew; Who of his great Design…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: A Country Burial

by EmilyDickinsonThe JourneyGoingA Country Burial A Country Burial Ample make this bed. Make this bed with awe; In it wait till judgment break Excellent and fair. Be its mattress…