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Angela Morgan: Choice

ChoiceAngela MorganI'd rather have the thought of you To hold against my heart, My spirit to be taught of you With west winds blowing, Than all the warm caresses Of another love's bestowing,…

offertory

(Encyclopedia) offertory [Lat.,=offering], in the Roman Catholic Mass and in derived liturgical forms, the preparation of bread and wine on the altar and their formal offering to God. It takes place…

Bunin, Ivan Alekseyevich

(Encyclopedia) Bunin, Ivan AlekseyevichBunin, Ivan Alekseyevichb&oomacr;ˈnĭn, Rus. ēvänˈ əlyĭksyāˈyəvĭch b&oomacr;ˈnyĭn [key], 1870–1953, Russian writer. Born of a poor aristocratic family,…

Choices and Change

by Barbara Bush Barbara Bush's Remarks at Wellesley College Commencement Thank you very much. Thank you President Keohane, Mrs. Gorbachev, trustees, faculty, parents, Julie Porter,…

Word Choice

  Don't "thesaurusize." The second trap into which many students fall is thinking that big words make good essays. Advanced vocabulary is fine if it comes naturally to you, and…

Dickey, James

(Encyclopedia) Dickey, James, 1923–97, American poet and novelist, b. Atlanta. After serving in the air force during World War II, he attended Vanderbilt Univ., graduating in 1946. He was an English…

free verse

(Encyclopedia) free verse, term loosely used for rhymed or unrhymed verse made free of conventional and traditional limitations and restrictions in regard to metrical structure. Cadence, especially…

Modern Verse

ContentsThe Little Book of Modern VerseForewordLord of my Heart's Elation (Bliss Carman)Gloucester Moors (William Vaughn Moody)On a Subway Express (Chester Firkins)The Automobile (Percy MacKaye)The…

Brewer's: Choice Spirit

(A) or “Choice Spirit of the Age,” a gallant of the day, being one who delights to exaggerate the whims of fashion. Hobson's Choice. (See Hobson.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable…

Brewer's: Hercules' Choice

Immortality the reward of toil in preference to pleasure. Xenophon tells us when Hercules was a youth he was accosted by two women—Virtue and Pleasure—and asked to choose between them.…