When I Read the BookWhen I read the book, the biography famous,
And is this then (said I) what the author calls a man's life?
And so will some one when I am dead and gone write my life?
(As…
Sura XXXVI — Ya. SinMecca — 83 Verses In the Name of God, the Compassionate, the Merciful YA. SIN.[343] By the wise Koran! Surely of the Sent Ones, Thou, Upon a right path! A revelation…
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God's AcreWitter BynnerBecause we felt there could not be
A mowing in reality
So white and feathery-blown and gay
With blossoms of wild caraway,
I said to Celia, "Let us trace
The secret of…
by Aesop The Wolf and his ShadowMercury and the Man Bitten by an AntThe Ploughman and the Wolf A Ploughman loosed his oxen from the plough, and led them away to the water to drink. While…
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