To -To HomerTo Ailsa Rock Hearken, thou craggy ocean-pyramid,
Give answer by thy voice—the sea-fowls’ screams!
When were thy shoulders mantled in huge streams?
When from the sun was thy…
Lines Rhymed in a Letter from OxfordOver the Hill and Over the DaleModern Love And what is love? It is a doll dress’d up
For idleness to cosset, nurse, and dandle;
A thing of soft…
by John Keats Lines on the Mermaid TavernTo AutumnRobin Hood To a Friend No! those days are gone away,
And their hours are old and gray,
And their minutes buried all
Under the…
(Encyclopedia) Pierce, John, 1910–2002, American electrical engineer, b. Des Moines, Iowa, grad. California Institute of Technology (Ph.D. 1936). Pierce worked at the Bell Telephone Laboratories,…
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(Encyclopedia) Quidor, JohnQuidor, Johnkĭdôrˈ [key], 1801–81, American painter, b. Tappan, N.Y., studied with J. W. Jarvis. Little appreciated in his own time, he was subsequently accorded a place…
by JohnKeatsSpecimen of an Induction to a PoemTo Some LadiesCalidore A fragment Young Calidore is paddling o'er the lake;
His healthful spirit eager and awake
To feel the beauty of a…
by JohnKeatsSonnetsChaucerSleep and Poetry "As I lay in my bed slepe full unmete
Was unto me, but why that I ne might
Rest I ne wist, for there n'as erthly wight
[As I suppose] had more of…
by John Keats Ode on a Grecian UrnFancyOde to Psyche O Goddess! hear these tuneless numbers, wrung
By sweet enforcement and remembrance dear,
And pardon that thy secrets should…
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