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Brewer's: Bestiaries

or Bestials. Books very popular in the eleventh, twelfth, and thirteenth centuries, containing the pictures of animals and their symbolisms. “The unicorn has but one horn in the middle of…

Hosea: 12

Hosea Chapter 12 1 Ephraim feedeth on wind, and followeth after the east wind: he daily increaseth lies and desolation; and they do make a covenant with the Assyrians, and oil is…

2 Esdras: 8

2 Esdras Chapter 8 1 And he answered me, saying, The most High hath made this world for many, but the world to come for few. 2 I will tell thee a similitude, Esdras; As when thou askest the…

Psalms: 22

Psalms Chapter 22 To the chief Musician upon Aijeleth Shahar, A Psalm of David. 1 My God, my God, why hast thou forsaken me? why art thou so far from helping me, and from the…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 24

Part 24Walt Whitman, a kosmos, of Manhattan the son, Turbulent, fleshy, sensual, eating, drinking and breeding, No sentimentalist, no stander above men and women or apart from them, No more…

Percy Bysshe Shelley: The Cloud

by Percy Bysshe Shelley A Vision of the SeaTo a SkylarkThe Cloud Published with "Prometheus Unbound", 1820. I bring fresh showers for the thirsting flowers, From the seas and the streams…

Brewer's: U'nicorn

According to the legends of the Middle Ages, the unicorn could be caught only by placing a virgin in his haunts; upon seeing the virgin, the creature would lose its fierceness and lie…

The Koran/Sura LXVI — The Forbidding

Sura LXVI — The ForbiddingMedina — 12 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful WHY,[1189] O Prophet! dost thou hold that to be FORBIDDEN which God hath made lawful to thee…

Women's History Month

Guide to Worldwide Goddesses   Women's History Month Nobel Winning Scientists Nobel Peace Prize Winners Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature Pulitzer Prize Winners in…