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New Testament
Poetry

I Am the Wind

I am the wind that wavers,
You are the certain land;
I am the shadow…
By Zoë Akins
A painting in the style of Vincent Van Gogh depicting a whale hanging from ropes and pulleys on the side of a ship at night.
Prose

The Funeral

“Haul in the chains! Let the carcase go astern!” The vast tackles have now done…
By Herman Melville
Poetry

Things That Grow

I like things with roots that know the earth,
Trees whose feet, nimble and brown,…
By Hazel Hall
The siesta (after Millet) by Vincent van Gogh
Prose

And It is a Good Thing

And it is a good thing in winter to be deep in the snow, in…
By Vincent van Gogh
Poetry

Reapers

Black reapers with the sound of steel on stones
Are sharpening scythes. I see them…
By Jean Toomer
Poetry

Going for Water

The well was dry beside the door,
And so we went with pail and can…
By Robert Frost
Harvest by Mijo Kovacic
Poetry

At Harvest

Earth travails,
Like a woman come to her time. The swaying corn-haulms
In the heavy…
By Joseph Campbell
Poetry

Outlook

Not to be conquered by these headlong days,
But to stand free: to keep the…
By Archibald Lampman
Poetry

A Sleepless Night

April, and the last of the plum blossoms
scatters on the black grass
before dawn.…
By Philip Levine
Poetry

The Giant Oak

And then the sound of marching armies ‘woke
Amid the branches of the soldier oak,…
By Emily Pauline Johnson

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