==Chapter 1==Red Ghallinan was a gunman. Not a trade to be proud of, perhaps, but Red was proud of it. Proud of his skill with a gun, proud of the notches on the long blue barrel of his More…
I fear’d the fury of my windWould blight all blossoms fair & true,And my sun it shin’d & shin’d,And my wind it never blew. But a blossom fair or trueWas not found on any tree;For More…
While women weep as they do now, I’ll fight;while little children go hungry as they do now, I’ll fight;while men go to prison, in and out, in and out, as they do now, I’ll fight;while More…
Love to faults is always blind, Always is to joy inclin’d, Lawless, wing’d & unconfin’d, And breaks all chains from every mind. Deceit to secrecy confin’d, Lawful, cautious & More…
My Spectre around me night & dayLike a Wild beast guards my way;My Emanation far withinWeeps incessantly for my Sin. A Fathomless & boundless Deep,There we wander, there we More…
O Lapwing, thou fliest around the heath Nor seest the net that is spread beneath. Why dost thou not fly among the corn fields? They cannot spread nets where a harvest yields.
"The Queen of Hearts" The queen of heartsShe made some tarts,All on a summer's dayThe knave of HeartsHe stole those tartsAnd with them ran away:The king of heartsCall'd for those More…
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"ALEXANDER" () (1876-1903), king of Servia, was born on the 14th of August 1876. On the 6th of March 1889 his father, King Milan, abdicated and proclaimed him king of Servia under a regency More…
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