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Consider that a conversation by telephone--when you are simply sitting by and not taking any part in that conversation--is one of the solemnest curiosities of modern life. Yesterday I was writing a ... [+]

A SULLIVAN COUNTY TALE

Four men once came to a wet place in the roadless forest to fish. They pitched their tent fair upon the brow of a pine-clothed ridge of riven rocks whence a bowlder could ... [+]

As virtuous men pass mildly away,
And whisper to their souls to go,
Whilst some of their sad ... [+]

Twas the night before Christmas, when all thro' the house


Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care,
In hopes that St. ... [+]

In the summer of 1896 Mr. William Holt, a wealthy manufacturer of Chicago, was living temporarily in a little town of central New York, the name of which the writer's memory has not retained. Mr. ... [+]

I have been one acquainted with the night.
I have walked out in rain, and back in rain.
I ... [+]

The policeman on the beat moved up the avenue impressively. The impressiveness was habitual and not for show, for spectators were few. The time was barely 10 o'clock at night, but chilly gusts of ... [+]

I will be the gladdest thing


Under the sun!


I will touch a hundred flowers
... [+]

The noon's greygolden meshes make
All night a veil,
The shorelamps in the sleeping lake
Laburnum ... [+]

'Tis fine to see the Old World and travel up and down 

Among the famous palaces and cities of renown, 

To admire the crumblyh castles and the statues and kings 

But ... [+]

O beautiful for spacious skies,
For amber waves of grain,
For purple mountain ... [+]

"Amy!"
Mrs. Grove called from the door that opened towards the garden. But no answer came. The sun had set half an hour before, and his parting rays were faintly tinging with gold and purple, ... [+]