(Encyclopedia) Meade, James Edward, 1907–95, British economist, studied at Oxford and Cambridge. Strongly influenced by John Maynard Keynes, Meade worked at the League of Nations (1937–40) and was…
On a Leander Gem Which a Young...On Sitting Down to Read King L...On Seeing the Elgin Marbles My spirit is too weak—mortality
Weighs heavily on me like unwilling sleep,
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The clouds, the trees, the rounded hills all seem,
Though…
by John Keats Ode on a Grecian UrnOde to a Nightingale My heart aches, and a drowsy numbness pains
My sense, as though of hemlock I had drunk,
Or emptied some dull opiate to the…
To HomerTo One Who Has Been Long in City PentTo Mrs. Reynolds's Cat Cat! who hast passed thy grand climacteric,
How many mice and rats hast in thy days
Destroyed? How many tit-bits stolen?…
SonnetsFor There's Bishop's TeignCharacter of Charles Brown I He is to weet a melancholy carle:
Thin in the waist, with bushy head of hair
As hath the seeded thistle when in parle
It…
(Encyclopedia) Parry, Sir William EdwardParry, Sir William Edwardpăˈrē [key], 1790–1855, British arctic explorer and rear admiral. He entered the navy at 13 and made his first voyage to the Arctic…
Character of Charles BrownLa Belle Dame sans MerciFor There's Bishop's Teign I For there’s Bishop’s teign
And King’s teign
And Coomb at the clear Teign head—
Where close by the stream
You…
(Encyclopedia) Randolph, Edward, c.1632–1703, English colonial agent in America. In 1676 he carried royal instructions to Massachusetts Bay that required the colony to send representatives to England…
by John Keats Part 1Part 2 love in a hut, with water and a crust,
Is — Love, forgive us! — cinders, ashes, dust;
Love in a palace is perhaps at last
More grievous torment than a hermit's…
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