Poetry
epub |eng | 2010-03-01 | Author:Phillis Wheatley [Wheatley, Phillis]

Your friend & very humble Servt Phillis Wheatley Queenstreet Boston July—15th 1778 [written before Wheatley’s marriage in April 1778; published in the Boston Magazine, September 1784] To Mr. and Mrs.—, ...
( Category: United States December 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-08-27 | Author:Remi Kanazi

I don’t get to drop white phosphorus on your dorm room and call it security if our chat doesn’t go well so let’s have a thought experiment on tolerance would ...
( Category: Poetry December 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 1996-02-08 | Author:Robin Becker [Becker, Robin]

OPALS —for Tamar Craig I knew the hard winter of sapphires set within gold claws, amber and pipestone strung on gut, fringed pouches stuffed with hash. Separate, separate, I urged ...
( Category: Poetry December 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-26 | Author:Cheryl Clarke

And . . . don’t sleep before midnight. And don’t fret over the Poles. We in the same fix with the Pope’s position on lust and family protection a storefront ...
( Category: Poetry December 1,2017 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-18 | Author:Sandy Raven - The Caversham Chronicles 01 - Caversham's Bride [Raven, Sandy]

Lia woke to the sound of a knock at the bedroom door. She reached for her husband, but the sheets on his side of the bed were cool. Sitting up, ...
( Category: Historical November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-12-13 | Author:Alice Walker [Walker, Alice]

Understanding that the world is engaged in ever increasing spirals of violence and suffering, I asked Spirit to give us a peace chant and mudra. I will teach it to ...
( Category: Essays & Correspondence November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Amy Gerstler [Gerstler, Amy]

ELIJAH, DEAD PROPHET, ROAMS THE EARTH judgmental and zealous his guts rubble his beard a pale exhalation a version of Elijah (how we like to taste his name!) appears in ...
( Category: United States November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-16 | Author:Ross Gay [Gay, Ross]

ending the estrangement from my mother’s sadness, which was, to me, unbearable, until, it felt to me not like what I thought it felt like to her, and so felt ...
( Category: Poetry November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-25 | Author:Raymond Carver [Carver, Raymond]

The officers serving under him will return home soon, and more young men will come to take their places. After the new arrivals dismount to pay their respects, the Colonel ...
( Category: Poetry November 29,2017 )
epub |eng | 2007-01-02 | Author:Edwin Arlington Robinson [ Robinson, Edwin Arlington]

BEN JONSON ENTERTAINS A MAN FROM STRATFORD You are a friend then, as I make it out, Of our man Shakespeare, who alone of us Will put an ass’s head ...
( Category: Poetry November 29,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2010-10-25 | Author:William Wordsworth & Samuel Taylor Coleridge [Wordsworth, William & Coleridge, Samuel Taylor]

Anecdote for Fathers, SHEWING HOW THE ART OF LYING MAY BE TAUGHT I have a boy of five years old, His face is fair and fresh to see; His limbs ...
( Category: Poetry November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1992-01-02 | Author:Aphra Behn [Behn, Aphra]

BELVILE Ha! Ha! Ha! WILLMORE Death, man, where is she? BLUNT What a dog was I to stay in dull England so long – how have I laughed at the ...
( Category: Classics November 28,2017 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 1905-01-02 | Author:William Shakespeare [Shakespeare, William]

465 Regan] Q (Reg) 8.0.1 Storm.] F (Storme still.); not in Q 0.1 the . . . First] Q (Kent and a) 0.1–2 First Gentleman] OXFORD; a Gentleman Q 457 ...
( Category: Dramas & Plays November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-28 | Author:Sinéad Morrissey [Sinead Morrissey]

( Category: Poetry November 28,2017 )
epub |eng | 1983-01-02 | Author:Percy Bysshe Shelley [Shelley, Percy Bysshe]

VII The brinded lioness led forth her young, That she might teach them how they should forego Their inborn thirst of death; the pard unstrung 100 His sinews at her ...
( Category: Poetry November 28,2017 )