I wonder, by my troth, what thou and I Did, till we loved? Were we not weaned till then? But sucked on country pleasures, childishly?
Two things account for our conservatism: the strength of our original emotional reaction to death and the insufficiency of our scientific knowledge about it.
The first and last lines of famous books frame the reading journey, inviting readers in and leaving lasting emotional or intellectual echoes.
The poems urge beauty to reproduce, warn against vanity, and reflect on time, aging, memory, and legacy through human generations.
Dorothy Parker was born on 22 August 1893. As a tribute to this great poet, thespace.ink features two of her poems as a birth anniversary
Two poems by Juan Ramón Jiménez, a prolific Spanish poet who achieved fame in the English speaking world after the translation of his work 'Platero
Read The Birthmark by Nathaniel Hawthorne. The Birthmark is a short story originally published in March 1843.
Ghost story by Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin on her birth anniversary.
The arts have failed; fewer people are interested in them every generation. The mere business of living, of making money, of amusing oneself, occupies people
Mr & Mrs McIlrath travelled across the globe on bicycles in the 19th century. World Bicycle Day special feature.
The Assault on Mount Everest 1922 was written after the 1922 expedition, which was man's first attempt to scale the highest peak on earth. A
18 May is celebrated worldwide as International Museum Day. Thomas Hardy's poem celebrates the British Museum.
He was born on the 23d of April, 1564.Of good farmer-class parents who could not read, could not write, could not sign their names. At
The spirit of enjoyment and desire,/And hopes and wishes, from all living things/Went circling, like a multitude of sounds.
The mummy itself, a horrid, black, withered thing, like a charred head on a gnarled bush, was lying half out of the case, with its
Five couriers recount uncanny premonitions and vanishings, blurring coincidence and supernatural, leaving the narrator unsettled in a haunting mountain setting.
