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A Child's NightmareThrough long nursery nights he stood
By my bed unwearying,
Loomed gigantic, formless, queer,
Purring in my haunted ear
That same hideous nightmare thing,
Talking, as he…
Part 6A child said What is the grass? fetching it to me with full hands;
How could I answer the child? I do not know what it is any more than he.I guess it must be the flag of my disposition…
by Aesop The Wasp and the SnakeThe Fowler and the LarkThe Eagle and the Beetle An Eagle was chasing a hare, which was running for dear life and was at her wits' end to know where to turn…
by Percy Bysshe Shelley
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Nec tantum prodere vati,
Quantum scire licet. Venit aetas omnis in unam
Congeriem, miserumque premunt tot saecula pectus.
LUCAN, Phars. v. 176.
How…
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