American-Literature
behold! that very discontentment which Master Hugh had predicted would follow my learning to read had already come, to torment a ...
pretended not to be interested in what they said, and treated them as if I did not understand them; for I feared they might be t ...
thousands, and yet a perfect stranger; without home and without friends, in the midst of thousands of my own brethren--children ...
AN OCCURENCE AT OWL CREEK BRIDGE BY AMBROSE BIERCE Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914) learned his craft as a writer while traveling thro ...
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge by Ambrose Bierce I A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama, looking down into ...
nose, firm mouth, broad forehead, from which his long, dark hair was combed straight back, falling behind his ears to the collar ...
As these thoughts, which have here to be set down in words, were flashed into the doomed man's brain rather than evolved from it ...
her husband and rode away. An hour later, after nightfall, he repassed the plantation, going northward in the direction from whi ...
he had yet experienced. His neck ached horribly; his brain was on fire; his heart, which had been fluttering faintly, gave a gre ...
chant; the lieu. tenant on shore was taking a part in the morning's work. How coldly and pitilessly--with what an even, calm int ...
behind a projecting point which concealed him from his enemies. The sudden arrest of his motion, the abrasion of one of his hand ...
sweet, steps down from the veranda to meet him. At the bottom of the steps she stands waiting, with a smile of ineffable joy, an ...
SHILOH BY HERMAN MELVILLE Herman Melville (1819-1891) will remain a permanent fixture in World Literature for his masterpiece Mo ...
Shiloh by Herman Melville Skimming lightly, wheeling still, The swallows fly low Over the field in clouded days, The forest-fiel ...
BEAT! BEAT! DRUMS by Walt Whitman Beat! beat! drums!—blow! bugles! blow! Through the windows—through doors—burst like a ruthless ...
Mind not the timid—mind not the weeper or prayer, Mind not the old man beseeching the young man, Let not the child’s voice be he ...
O CAPTAIN! MY CAPTAIN! by Walt Whitman O Captain! my Captain! our fearful trip is done, The ship has weather’d every rack, the p ...
My Captain does not answer, his lips are pale and still, My father does not feel my arm, he has no pulse nor will, The ship is a ...
REVIEW 5 Check Answer Question 1 of 5 Lincoln’s famous “four score and seven years ago” refers to _____. A. landing at Plymouth ...
Romanticism, Regionalism, Local Color, Naturalism, Realism THE LATE 19TH CENTURY 6 ...
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