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The Key to Grief by Robert W. Chambers
The moving finger writes, and, having writ,Moves on; nor all your piety nor witShall lure it back to cancel half…
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The Messenger by Robert W. Chambers
Little gray messenger,Robed like painted Death,Your robe is dust.Whom do you seekAmong lilies and closed budsAt dusk?Among lilies and closed…
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The Purple Emperor by Robert W. Chambers
THE PURPLE EMPEROR. Un souvenir heureux est peut-être, sur terre,Plus vrai que le bonheur. A. de Musset. I. The Purple…
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The Repairer of Reputations by Robert W. Chambers
The Repairer of Reputations is the leading story in Chambers’ collection, The King in Yellow (1895), and featured in our…
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The White Shadow by Robert W. Chambers
We are no other than a moving rowOf magic shadow-shapes, that come and goRound with this sun-illumined lantern, heldIn midnight…
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The Yellow Sign by Robert W. Chambers
“Let the red dawn surmiseWhat we shall do,When this blue starlight diesAnd all is through.” IThere are so many things…
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Eclipses of Shakespeare and the Poets by George F. Chambers
Eclipses of Shakespeare and the Poets is excerpted from The Story of Eclipses (1899), a popular science book for general…
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Eclipses of the Sun Observer Hints by George F. Chambers
Eclipses of the Sun Observer Hints is excerpted from The Story of Eclipses (1899), a popular science book for general…
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Strange Eclipse Customs by George F. Chambers
Strange Eclipse Customs is excerpted from The Story of Eclipses (1899), a popular science book for general readers published in…
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A Burglar’s Christmas by Willa Cather
“Excuse me, but I think you dropped something.”She started, “O, yes, thank you, I would rather have lost anything than…
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