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Walt Whitman: Proud Music of the Storm, Part 4

Part 4I hear those odes, symphonies, operas, I hear in the William Tell the music of an arous'd and angry people, I hear Meyerbeer's Huguenots, the Prophet, or Robert, Gounod's Faust, or…

Brewer's: Dying Sayings

(real or traditional): ADAMS (President): “Independence for ever.” ADAMS (John Q. ): “It is the last of earth. I am content.” ADDISON: “See how a Christian dies,” or “See in what peace a…

Footnotes - The Odyssey

Footnotes Black races are evidently known to the writer as stretching all across Africa, one half looking West on to the Atlantic, and the other East on to the Indian Ocean. The original…

The Moon's Phases

Source: The National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) The lunar month is the 29.53 days it takes to go from one new moon to the next. During the lunar month, the Moon goes through…

Home Again

Home AgainJuly had come, and haying begun; the little gardens were doing finely and the long summer days were full of pleasant hours. The house stood open from morning till night, and the…

Walt Whitman: The Ox-Tamer

The Ox-TamerIn a far-away northern county in the placid pastoral region, Lives my farmer friend, the theme of my recitative, a famous tamer of oxen, There they bring him the three-year-olds…