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Poem: Rhapsody on a Windy Night

Poem 15 Poem 17 Rhapsody on a Windy Night Twelve o'clock. Along the reaches of the street Held in a lunar synthesis, Whispering lunar incantations Disolve the floors of memory And all its…

The Raven

The Raven There was once a queen who had a little daughter, still too young to run alone. One day the child was very troublesome, and the mother could not quiet it, do what she would. She…

AFC West

The defending Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos have the same horsepower they had a year ago when they broke the AFC jinx against the Packers in San Diego. They've got the talent, the experience…

Michael

Director: Nora Ephron Writers: Nora Ephron, Delia Ephron, Pete Dexter and Jim Quinlan Director of Photography: John Lindley Editor: Geraldine Peroni Music: Randy Newman…

Slipknot Biography

Slipknotalternative rock band Chart-topping rock band Slipknot is one of the prominent examples of alternative heavy metal. Exploding on the scene with a horror-movie image complete with…

Aerosmith Biography

Aerosmithhard-rock band Grammy Award-winning hard-rock band known for its blues-influenced style, flamboyant stage presence and an amazing 1984 comeback. After a long battle with drugs and bad blood…

Florence Wilkinson: Students

StudentsFlorence WilkinsonJohn Brown and Jeanne at Fontainebleau — 'T was Toussaint, just a year ago; Crimson and copper was the glow Of all the woods at Fontainebleau. They peered into that…

Brewer's: Horse-vetch

The vetch which has pods shaped like a horse-shoe; sometimes called the “horse-shoe vetch.” (See Horse-Chestnut.) Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894Horse and…

Brewer's: Copenhagen

The Duke of Wellington's horse, on which he rode in the Battle of Waterloo, “from four in the morning till twelve at night.” It was a rich chestnut, 15 hands high. It was afterwards a…

Brewer's: Vallombrosa

Milton says, “Thick as autumnal leaves that strew the brooks in Vallombrosa” (Paradise Lost, i. 302); but as the trees of Vallombrosa are chiefly pines, they do not strew the brooks with…