American-Literature
order over hill and dale to the wars, against their wills, ay, against their common sense and consciences, which makes it very s ...
without disgrace be associated with it. I cannot for an instant recognize that political organization as my government which is ...
In their practice, nations agree with Paley; but does any one think that Massachusetts does exactly what is right at the present ...
right to the mercy of chance, nor wish it to prevail through the power of the majority. There is but little virtue in the action ...
get off him first, that he may pursue his contemplations too. See what gross inconsistency is tolerated. I have heard some of my ...
IF YOU WERE COMING IN THE FALL BY EMILY DICKINSON Emily Dickinson (1830-1886) published fewer than a dozen poems during her life ...
If you were coming in the fall by Emily Dickinson IF you were coming in the fall,+ I ’d brush the summer by+ With half a smile a ...
BECAUSE I COULD NOT STOP FOR DEATH by Emily Dickinson BECAUSE I could not stop for Death,+ He kindly stopped for me;+ The carria ...
SUCCESS IS COUNTED SWEETEST by Emily Dickinson SUCCESS is counted sweetest+ By those who ne’er succeed.+ To comprehend a nectar+ ...
I HEARD A FLY BUZZ WHEN I DIED by Emily Dickinson I HEARD a fly buzz when I died;+ The stillness round my form+ Was like the sti ...
With blue, uncertain, stumbling buzz,+ Between the light and me;+ And then the windows failed, and then 15 I could not s ...
I HEAR AMERICA SINGING BY WALT WHITMAN British art historian Mary Whitall Smith once stated, “You cannot really understand Ameri ...
I Hear America Singing by Walt Whitman I hear America singing, the varied carols I hear, Those of mechanics, each one singing hi ...
WHEN I HEARD THE LEARN’D ASTRONOMER by Walt Whitman WHEN I heard the learn’d astronomer;+ When the proofs, the figures, were ran ...
YOUNG GOODMAN BROWN BY NATHANIEL HAWTHORNE Nathaniel Hawthorne (1804-1864) is remembered chiefly for his novel The Scarlet Lette ...
Young Goodman Brown by Nathaniel Hawthorne Young Goodman Brown came forth at sunset into the street at Salem village; but put hi ...
"There may be a devilish Indian behind every tree," said Goodman Brown to himself; and he glanced fearfully behind him as he add ...
Brown! I have been as well acquainted with your family as with ever a one among the Puritans; and that's no trifle to say. I hel ...
leave, friend, I shall take a cut through the woods until we have left this Christian woman behind. Being a stranger to you, she ...
his auditor than to be suggested by himself. As they went, he plucked a branch of maple to serve for a walking stick, and began ...
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