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Walt Whitman: The Runner

The RunnerOn a flat road runs the well-train'd runner, He is lean and sinewy with muscular legs, He is thinly clothed, he leans forward as he runs, With lightly closed fists and arms…

Nepal Department of State Background

U.S. Department of State Background Note Nepal Index: People History Government and Political Conditions Economy Defense Foreign Relations U.S.-Nepal Relations PEOPLEPerched on the southern…

Walt Whitman: My Picture-Gallery

My Picture-GalleryIn a little house keep I pictures suspended, it is not a fix'd house, It is round, it is only a few inches from one side to the other; Yet behold, it has room for all the…

Nuclear Disaster Glossary: Terms and Definitions

Becquerel, Cesium, Hibakusha, Pressurized water reactor, and more by Catherine McNiff Below are terms and definitions frequently used in the aftermath of the nuclear disaster in Japan. A-M |…

Biographies: Notable Actors

Notable Actors Isabella Rossellini See also Filmmakers and Directors African-American Actors Asian American Film & Television Personalities Hispanic-American Film, Television, and…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 39

Part 39The friendly and flowing savage, who is he? Is he waiting for civilization, or past it and mastering it?Is he some Southwesterner rais'd out-doors? is he Kanadian? Is he from the…

Walt Whitman: Osceola

OsceolaWhen his hour for death had come, He slowly rais'd himself from the bed on the floor, Drew on his war-dress, shirt, leggings, and girdled the belt around his waist, Call'd for…

Walt Whitman: Starting from Paumanok, Part 1

Part 1Starting from fish-shape Paumanok where I was born, Well-begotten, and rais'd by a perfect mother, After roaming many lands, lover of populous pavements, Dweller in Mannahatta my city,…

Sonnets by William Shakespeare: CL

Sonnet CXLIX Sonnet CLI CL O! from what power hast thou this powerful might, With insufficiency my heart to sway? To make me give the lie to my true sight, And swear that brightness…