Sweetest love, I do not go ( Read more... )

"...They contrast finely with those elaborate and iterated repinings, which we sometimes meet with, in poetry;--the effusions of morbid minds, sickening under miseries of their own creating, and venting their bitterness upon an unoffending world."

washington irving

         "...But it is meet I should, in the true spirit of romantic story, give some account of the looks and equipments of my hero and his steed. The animal he bestrode was a broken down plough horse, that had outlived almost every thing but his viciousness. He was gaunt and shagged, with a ewe neck and a head like a hammer; his rusty mane and ( Read more... )

Jenny kiss'd me when we met,
          Jumping from the chair she sat in;
Time, you thief, who love to get
          Sweets into your list, put that in!
Say I'm weary, say I'm sad,
          Say that health and wealth have miss'd me,
Say I'm growing old, but add,
          Jenny kiss'd me.

leigh hunt

One night I dreamt that in a gleaming hall ( Read more... )

Through winter-time we call on spring,
And through the spring on summer call,
And when abounding hedges ring
Declare that winter's best of all;
And after that there's nothing good
Because the spring-time has not come--
Nor know that what disturbs our blood
Is but its longing for the tomb.

w.b. yeats

Ask me a question.

Oh, man. Why do we need standardized tests to demonstrate how intelligent we are?

It's almost two and I am hungry.

I will try less to complain.

I will try to complain less.

Rosie is right, it's all stupid...I hope I get a five.

The origins of the women's rights movement in the United States may be traced to the ( Read more... )

"In the 1500s, Native Americans possessed a wide range of complex cultures." Each of the following gives evidence to support this statement EXCEPT ( Read more... )