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Lewis, Jerry Lee

(Encyclopedia) Lewis, Jerry Lee, 1935–2022, American singer and composer, b. Ferriday, La. Combining country music elements with an energetic…

cleavage

(Encyclopedia) cleavage, tendency of many minerals to split along definite smooth planar surfaces determined by their crystal structure. The directions of these surfaces are related to weaknesses in…

Puy-en-Velay, Le

(Encyclopedia) Puy-en-Velay, LePuy-en-Velay, Lelə püēˈ-äN-vəlāˈ [key], city (1990 pop. 23,434), capital of Haute-Loire dept., S central France. Le Puy-en-Velay is the center of an old lace industry,…

gravel

(Encyclopedia) gravel, particles of rock, i.e., stones and pebbles, usually round in form and intermediate in size between sand grains and boulders. Gravel is composed of various kinds of rock, the…

basalt

(Encyclopedia) basaltbasaltbəsôltˈ, băsˈôlt [key], fine-grained rock of volcanic origin, dark gray, dark green, brown, reddish, or black in color. Basalt is an igneous rock, i.e., one that has…

Sara Teasdale: "A Little While"

"A Little While"A little while when I am gone My life will live in music after me, As spun foam lifted and borne on After the wave is lost in the full sea.A while these nights and days will…

The Little Book of Modern Verse: Foreword

Foreword"The Little Book of Modern Verse", as its name implies, is not a formal anthology. The pageant of American poetry has been so often presented that no necessity exists for another…

Thomas Walsh: Our Little House

Our Little HouseThomas WalshOur little house upon the hill In winter time is strangely still; The roof tree, bare of leaves, stands high, A candelabrum for the sky, And down below the…

William Blake: The Little Boy Lost

by WilliamBlakeThe Chimney-SweeperThe Little Boy FoundThe Little Boy Lost "Father, father, where are you going? Oh do not walk so fast! Speak, father, speak to you little boy, Or…