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1980 Winter Olympics

Lake Placid Top 10 Standings Leading Medal Winners Alpine Skiing Biathlon Bobsled Figure Skating Ice Hockey Luge Nordic Skiing Speed Skating Eric and…

Walt Whitman: Song of Myself, Part 49

Part 49And as to you Death, and you bitter hug of mortality, it is idle to try to alarm me.To his work without flinching the accoucheur comes, I see the elder-hand pressing receiving…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: IV

IVThe civil world will much forgive To bards who from its maxims live, But if, grown bold, the poet dare Bend his practice to his prayer And following his mighty heart Shame the times and…

Walt Whitman: The City Dead-House

The City Dead-HouseBy the city dead-house by the gate, As idly sauntering wending my way from the clangor, I curious pause, for lo, an outcast form, a poor dead prostitute brought, Her corpse…

Poems and Songs of Robert Burns: Monody

by Robert Burns The Flowery Banks Of CreeThe EpitaphMonody On a lady famed for her Caprice. How cold is that bosom which folly once fired, How pale is that cheek where the…

Ralph Waldo Emerson: The Miracle

The MiracleI have trod this path a hundred times With idle footsteps, crooning rhymes. I know each nest and web-worm's tent, The fox-hole which the woodchucks rent, Maple and oak, the old…

The Devil's Dictionary: Looking-glass

by Ambrose Bierce LONGEVITYLOQUACITYLOOKING-GLASS -n. A vitreous plane upon which to display a fleeting show for man's disillusion given. The King of Manchuria had a magic looking-glass,…