The AdirondacsA JournalDedicated to My Fellow Travellers in August, 1858 Wise and polite,—and if I drew
Their several portraits, you would own
Chaucer had no such worthy crew,…
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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The old man took the oars, and soon the bark
Smote on the beach beside a tower of stone;
It was a crumbling heap, whose portal dark
With…
Sherman, Frank Dempster[1860-1916](3)Born at Peekskill, New York, May 6, 1860. Died September 19, 1916. He took the degree of Ph.B. from Columbia University in 1884, and was Professor of…
MeadowlarksIn the silver light after a storm,
Under dripping boughs of bright new green,
I take the low path to hear the meadowlarks
Alone and high-hearted as if I were a queen.What have I…
Love-FreeI am free of love as a bird flying south in the autumn,
Swift and intent, asking no joy from another,
Glad to forget all of the passion of April
Ere it was love-free.I am free…
by Ambrose Bierce LAUGHTERLAURELLAUREATE -adj. Crowned with leaves of the laurel. In England the Poet Laureate is an officer of the sovereign's court, acting as dancing skeleton at every…
The Fourth Battle Continued, i... The Fifth Battle at the Ships;... Juno Deceives Jupiter by the Girdle of Venus. Nestor, sitting at the table with Machaon, is alarmed with the…
Long, Too Long AmericaLong, too long America,
Traveling roads all even and peaceful you learn'd from joys and
prosperity only,
But now, ah now, to learn from crises of anguish, advancing…
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-…
by Aesop The Old Woman and the Wine-JarThe Viper and the FileThe Lioness and the Vixen A Lioness and a Vixen were talking together about their young, as mothers will, and saying how…
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