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Walt Whitman: Proud Music of the Storm, Part 5

Part 5Now Asia, Africa leave me, Europe seizing inflates me, To organs huge and bands I hear as from vast concourses of voices, Luther's strong hymn Eine feste Burg ist unser Gott, Rossini's…

Walt Whitman: To the Sun-Set Breeze

To the Sun-Set BreezeAh, whispering, something again, unseen, Where late this heated day thou enterest at my window, door, Thou, laving, tempering all, cool-freshing, gently vitalizing Me,…

Amy Lowell: Night and Sleep

Night and SleepThe day takes her ease in slippered yellow. Electric signs gleam out along the shop fronts, following each other. They grow, and grow, and blow into patterns of fire-flowers…

Fantastic Fables, Ambrose Bierce: The Mirror

139 141 The Mirror A SILKEN-EARED Spaniel, who traced his descent from King Charles the Second of England, chanced to look into a mirror which was leaning against the wainscoting of a room on the…

Emily Davison

Emily Wilding Davison was an English activist who died while pursuing the right to vote. On June 4, 1913, with newsreel cameras running, Davison stepped in front of King George V’s horse right in…

Review: The Others (2001)

Director:Alejandro AmenábarWriter:Amen barDimension Films; PG-13; 104 minutesRelease:8/01Cast:Nicole Kidman, Fionnula Flanagan, Christopher Eccleston Spanish director Alejandro Amenábar didn'…

May 2010 Current Events: Business News

U.S. News | World News | Disasters & Science News Here are the key events in business and science news for the month of May 2010.       United, Continental Announce Merger (May 3): The…

Walt Whitman: A Broadway Pageant, Part 1

Part 1Over the Western sea hither from Niphon come, Courteous, the swart-cheek'd two-sworded envoys, Leaning back in their open barouches, bare-headed, impassive, Ride to-day through…

Walt Whitman: Beat! Beat! Drums!

Beat! Beat! Drums!Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow! Through the windows—through doors—burst like a ruthless force, Into the solemn church, and scatter the congregation, Into the school…

Amy Lowell: To Elizabeth Ward Perkins

To Elizabeth Ward PerkinsDear Bessie, would my tired rhyme Had force to rise from apathy, And shaking off its lethargy Ring word-tones like a Christmas chime.But in my soul's high belfry,…