Category: books
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Winter Turning
Winter Turning By Amy Lowell Snow is still on the ground,But there is a golden brightness in the air.Across the river,Blue,Blue, Sweeping widely under the archesOf many bridges,Is a spire and a dome,Clear as though ringed with ice-flakes,Golden, and pink, and jocund. On a near-by steeple,A golden weather-cock flashes smartly,His open beak “Cock-a-doodle-dooing”Straight at the…
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The Story of Doctor Dolittle Chapter 13: Red Sails and Blue Wings
Chapter 13: Red Sails and Blue Wings Sailing homeward, the Doctor’s ship had to pass the coast of Barbary. This coast is the seashore of the Great Desert. It is a wild, lonely place-all sand and stones. But it was here that the Barbary pirates lived. These pirates, a bad lot of men, used to…
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I’m Nobody! Who are You?”
I’m Nobody! Who are You?” By Emily Dickinson I’m Nobody! Who are you?Are you – Nobody – too?Then there’s a pair of us!Don’t tell! they’d advertise – you know!How dreary – to be – Somebody!How public – like a Frog –To tell your name – the livelong June –To an admiring Bog! Synopsis Emily Dickinson’s…
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The Life and Legacy of Emily Dickinson
Birth and Family Background Emily Elizabeth Dickinson was born at her family’s home in Amherst, Massachusetts, on December 10, 1830. Her family was important in the town, although they were not extremely wealthy. Her father, Edward Dickinson, was a respected lawyer and served as a trustee at Amherst College. Emily’s ancestors had arrived in America…
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“Hope is the thing with feathers” by Emily Dickinson
“Hope is the thing with feathers” By Emily Dickinson Hope is the thing with feathers, That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard, And sore must be the storm, That could abash the little bird That kept so many…
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A Birthday by Christina Georgina Rossetti
By Christina Georgina Rossetti My heart is like a singing bird Whose nest is in a water’d shoot; My heart is like an apple-tree Whose boughs are bent with thickset fruit; My heart is like a rainbow shell That paddles in a halcyon sea; My heart is gladder than all these Because my love is…
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Witness of the Stars: Appendix. Note on the Sign LIBRA
Appendix. Note on the Sign LIBRA. In Chapter II. The Sign LIBRA, we called attention to the point that in all probability the Sign Libra was a very ancient corruption. The ancient Akkadian name for the seventh month, which was the month when the sun was in the Sign now called Libra, was Tul-ku, which means the sacred mound, or altar. The Akkadian name…
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The Story of the Three Little Pigs
THE STORYOF THETHREE LITTLE PIGS With drawings by L. Leslie Brooke Frederick Warne & Co. Once upon a time there was an old Sow with three little Pigs, and as she had not enough to keep them, she sent them out to seek their fortune. The first that went off met a Man with a bundle…
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Witness of the Stars: “For Signs and For Seasons”
“For Signs and For Seasons” We have seen the great truths which are taught from the position, and forms, and names of the heavenly bodies. There are also truths to be learnt from their motions. When God created them and set them in the firmament of heaven, He said, in Gen. i. 14— “Let them…
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The Children’s Six Minutes: Two R’s and an A
TWO R’S AND AN A Do you know what week this is? We have all sorts of weeks, don’t we! There is Sunday School week, Go to Church week, Boy Scout week, Red Cross week, Social Welfare week, Hospital week, Y.W.C.A. and Y.M.C.A. week. Sometimes we wish we could have one week all to ourselves.…