by EmilyDickinsonThirstCharlotte Brontí«'s GraveLIII A clock stopped — not the mantel's;
Geneva's farthest skill
Can't put the puppet bowing
That just now dangled still. An awe came…
by Robert Burns Mr. William Smellie-A SketchExtempore In The Court Of SessionSong-Bonie Dundee My blessin's upon thy sweet wee lippie!
My blessin's upon thy e'e-brie!
Thy…
A Rose Is Still a RoseArista She could sing the words in the phone book and make them sound mesmerizingly soulful. Yet Aretha Franklin has still managed to put out some very lackluster albums…
TestamentI said, "I will take my life
And throw it away;
I who was fire and song
Will turn to clay.""I will lie no more in the night
With shaken breath,
I will toss my heart in the…
The New LifeWitter BynnerPerhaps they laughed at Dante in his youth,
Told him that truth
Had unappealably been said
In the great masterpieces of the dead: —
Perhaps he listened and but bowed…
Jay LivingstonAge: 86 pop composer and lyricist who, with Ray Evans, scored more than 80 films and won three Best Song Oscars for “Que Sera Sera,” “Buttons and Bows,” and “Mona Lisa.”…
To John KeatsGreat master! Boyish, sympathetic man!
Whose orbed and ripened genius lightly hung
From life's slim, twisted tendril and there swung
In crimson-sphered completeness; guardian…
MusicLet me go where'er I will,
I hear a sky-born music still:
It sounds from all things old,
It sounds from all things young,
From all that's fair, from all that's foul,
Peals out a cheerful…
In a RestaurantThe darkened street was muffled with the snow,
The falling flakes had made your shoulders white,
And when we found a shelter from the night
Its glamor fell upon us like a…
Beauty Is VainWhile roses are so red,
While lilies are so white,
Shall a woman exalt her face
Because it gives delight?
She's not so sweet as a rose,
A lily's straighter than she,
And…
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