Poetry
epub |eng | | Author:Judith Viorst

* * * * * * STRIKING BACK When a husband tells a wife Stop screaming at the children And he isn’t crazy about the drapes And why doesn’t she ...
( Category: Parenting & Families March 29,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Philip Freeman

A PIECE OF parchment from the sixth century AD preserves a different kind of love poem by Sappho. Like many of her songs, the beginning and end are missing, and ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 29,2020 )
epub |eng | 2018-10-02 | Author:J. Michael Martinez [Martinez, J. Michael]

PETITION FOR NATURALIZATION. ________________ Court of ________________ . In the matter of the petition of _________________ to be admitted as a citizen of the United States of America. To the ...
( Category: Hispanic American March 29,2020 )
epub |por | 2017-04-03 | Author:Virginia Woolf [Woolf, Virginia]

[Escrito em outubro de 1940; publicado postumamente em A casa assombrada e outros contos, 1944.] The Lady in the Looking-Glass A Reflection People should not leave looking-glasses hanging in their ...
( Category: Poetry March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-04-11 | Author:Mary di Michele

but when you return it’s as if you’d never been born in that country. 89 Faulkner wrote: The past is never dead. It’s not even past. Even the sunlight warming ...
( Category: Poetry March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-10-15 | Author:Charlotte Brontë [Brontë, Charlotte]

She was not young, as I remember her, but she was still handsome, tall, well-made, and though dark for an Englishwoman, yet wearing always the clearness of health in her ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2004-11-25 | Author:Ovid [Ovid]

NOTES 1. Haemonia (the land of Haemon) was another name for Thessaly. Haemon, the lover of Antigone, was the son of Creon, King of Thebes. 2. Boreas was the god ...
( Category: Love Poems March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Kuppner, Frank [Frank Kuppner]

Madam, if I may say so, there is a Venus fly-trap Madam, if I may say so, there is something very crude Madam, if I scribbled my name upon your ...
( Category: British & Irish March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-14 | Author:Paul Muldoon [Paul Muldoon]

The patriot, fresh from Freedom’s councib come, now pleased retires to lash his slaves at home; or woo, perhaps, some black Aspasia’s charms, and dream of freedom in his bondsmaid’s ...
( Category: European March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2016-10-07 | Author:Alexis Pauline Gumbs

Where She Ended Up spill (v) let (wind) out of a sail, typically by slackening the sheets. the motel vacancy sign knows its own code. morse. hoarse with its own ...
( Category: African-American Studies March 28,2020 )
mobi |eng | 1992-03-03 | Author:Sherman Alexie

Eve looked at Thomas, couldn’t believe he was trying to start the morning at the very beginning. “Thomas,” she said. “Get your head out of your ass. The tribal cop ...
( Category: Native American March 28,2020 )
epub |eng | 2011-12-14 | Author:Theodore Roethke [Roethke, Theodore]

A WALK IN LATE SUMMER 1 A gull rides on the ripples of a dream, White upon white, slow-settling on a stone; Across my lawn the soft-backed creatures come; In ...
( Category: Love Poems March 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-07-26 | Author:Beowulf [Beowulf]

XXIV.: BEOWULF SLAYETH GRENDEL’S DAM, SMITETH OFF GRENDEL’S HEAD, AND COMETH BACK WITH HIS THANES TO HART. MIDST the war-gear he saw then a bill victory-wealthy, An old sword of ...
( Category: Epic March 27,2020 )
epub |eng | 2017-12-09 | Author:William Shakespeare [Shakespeare, William]

As mountain-snow melts with the mid-day sun. ‘Therefore, despite of fruitless chastity, Love-lacking vestals and self-loving nuns, 752 That on the earth would breed a scarcity And barren dearth of ...
( Category: European March 27,2020 )
epub |eng | | Author:Taigen Dan Leighton

Investigating Wonder In clarity the wonder exists, with spiritual energy shining on its own. It cannot be grasped and so cannot be called being. It cannot be rubbed away and ...
( Category: Feng Shui March 27,2020 )