Literature
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Sonnet I by Lord Byron
Sonnet I was published in Byron’s most popular tale, The Corsair in 1814.Thine eyes blue tenderness, thy long fair hair,And…
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Sonnet II by Lord Byron
Sonnet II was published in Byron’s most popular tale, The Corsair in 1814.To Genevra. Thy cheek is pale with thought,…
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The Age of Bronze by Lord Byron
The Age of Bronze was written in June, 1823, in which Byron reproaches the land barons for living on the…
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The Prisoner of Chillon by Lord Byron
The Prisoner of Chillon (1816), chronicles Swiss monk, François Bonivard’s imprisonment, from 1532 to 1536. My hair is gray, but…
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To a Lady Weeping by Lord Byron
To a Lady Weeping was first published anonymously in the Morning Chronicle. It was later published with Byron’s most popular…
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Buried Bones by Ellis Parker Butler
When Mr. Gubb went to the house of Mr. Jonas Medderbrook to pay him the money he had received for…
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Dey Ain’t No Ghosts by Ellis Parker Butler
Dey Ain’t No Ghosts was published in The Century in 1913.Once ‘pon a time dey was a li’l’ black boy…
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Goat-Feathers by Ellis Parker Butler
No human being ever tells the whole truth about himself. We seem to be born liars in that particular, all…
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Mr. Billings’s Pockets by Ellis Parker Butler
On the sixteenth of June Mr. Rollin Billings entered his home at Westcote very much later than usual, and stealing…
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Pigs Is Pigs by Ellis Parker Butler
Mike Flannery, the Westcote agent of the Interurban Express Company, leaned over the counter of the express office and shook…
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