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Aesop's Fables: The Rich Man and the Tanner

by Aesop The Eagle and the ArrowThe Wolf, the Mother, and Her ChildThe Rich Man and the Tanner A Rich Man took up his residence next door to a Tanner, and found the smell of the tan-yard…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Garden

The GardenMany things the garden shows, And pleased I stray From tree to tree Watching the white pear-bloom, Bee-infested quince or plum. I could walk days, years, away Till the slow ripening…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: Prometheus Unbound Act 1

by Percy Bysshe Shelley Dramatis Personae Act 2 Act 1 A Ravine of icy rocks in the Indian Caucasus. Prometheus is discovered bound to the precipice. Pantea and Ione are seated at his feet.…

Carl Rowan 2000 Deaths

Carl RowanAge: 75 liberal crusading columnist and best-selling author who specialized in race relations. He served as deputy assistant secretary of state and ambassador to Finland under…

Walt Whitman: The Dalliance of the Eagles

The Dalliance of the EaglesSkirting the river road, (my forenoon walk, my rest,) Skyward in air a sudden muffled sound, the dalliance of the eagles, The rushing amorous contact high in space…

Poems: The Fly

by WilliamBlakeThe Sick RoseThe AngelThe Fly Little Fly, Thy summer's play My thoughtless hand Has brushed away. Am not I A fly like thee? Or art not thou A man like me…

Poems by Emily Dickinson: Along the Potomac

by EmilyDickinsonXXXIIXXXIVAlong the Potomac Along the Potomac When I was small, a woman died. To-day her only boy Went up from the Potomac, His face all victory, To look at her; how…