A slant of sun on dull brown walls,
A forgotten sky of bashful blue.
Toward God a mighty hymn,
A song of collisions and cries,
Rumbling wheels, hoof-beats, bells,
Welcomes, farewells, love-…
Paris, March, 1814Fine yellow sunlight down the rue du Mont Thabor.
Ten o'clock striking from all the clock-towers of Paris.
Over the door of a shop, in gilt letters:
"Martin — Parfumeur",…
by Ambrose Bierce HADESHALFHAG -n. An elderly lady whom you do not happen to like; sometimes called, also, a hen, or cat. Old witches, sorceresses, etc., were called hags from the belief…
by Aesop The Fox and the LionThe Blacksmith and His DogThe Eagle and his Captor A Man once caught an Eagle, and after clipping his wings turned him loose among the fowls in his hen-house,…
by Robert Burns Epigram At Brownhill InnLovely Polly StewartYou're Welcome, Willie Stewart Chorus.—You're welcome, Willie Stewart,
You're welcome, Willie Stewart,…
by Aesop The Lion, the Fox, and the AssThe Gnat and the LionThe Fowler, the Partridge, and the Cock One day, as a Fowler was sitting down to a scanty supper of herbs and bread, a friend…
The BoysWhile Nat takes a good long sleep, I will tell my little readers something about the boys, among whom he found himself when he woke up. To begin with our old friends. Franz was a tall…
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