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The Burial of Sir John Moore after Corunna

Not a drum was heard, not a funeral note,
As his corse to the rampart…
By Charles Wolfe
Prose/Religion

This Brother is the Pulse of the New Age

Only through a more exact knowledge of religion will one be able to judge the…
By Novalis
Prose

Belief and Unbelief

There are some doubters even in the western villages. One woman told me last Christmas…
By W. B. Yeats
Poetry

The Modern Poet

A Song of Derivations I come from nothing; but from where
Come the undying thoughts…
By Alice Meynell
Poetry

The Thunder-Shower

The lightning flashed, and lifted
The lids of heaven apart,
The fiery thunder rolled you…
By John Hall Wheelock
Portia and Shylock by Edward Alcock
Prose

Mercy

The quality of mercy is not strain’d,
It droppeth as the gentle rain from heaven…
By William Shakespeare
Two Whales by Flavio Gasperini
Prose

The Gigantic Tail

Out of the bottomless profundities the gigantic tail seems spasmodically snatching at the highest heaven.…
By Herman Melville
Prose

A Writer

A writer, I say, must have not only a story to tell but a story…
By Lynn Freed
Poetry

The Castaway

Obscurest night involv’d the sky,
Th’ Atlantic billows roar’d,
When such a destin’d wretch as…
By William Cowper
Prose

Wing-Footed Wanderer

He only can create the greatest imaginable beauty who has endured all imaginable pangs, for…
By W. B. Yeats
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