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An inscription dating to around 1020 A.D. about the Northern Song Dynasty (960 - 1127).

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Poetry collection featuring poems of empathy

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Introduction 9 Empathy Rising 11 When First, My Love, We Meet 13 Darkness and Light 14 For Debi, My Bride 15 Dave 16 The Black Girl to the Jehovah's Witness 17 Listen 18 Then and Now 19 Chance Reunion 20 Resurrection 21 A Memory 22 Eulogy for us, because 23 Father 24 The Idealist Who Wouldn’t Let Go 25 Youth’s Revenge 27 The Masquerade 28 Baby Grand Piano 29 Faces 31 New Glasses 33 Passing By 35 The Waiter 37 Hopelessly Lost 38 Last Dream 40 To One Who Has Deemed Me an Enemy 43 The Businessman 44 The Janitor 45 Shy Attack 46 The Fisherman Views Creation 48 The Drunkard Views Creation 49 Street Scene 50 Still Life 52 Numbers 53 Words 54 Janet 56 Richard Bradley 57 Weather-Beaten and Truth-Seasoned 58 What to Say to the Next Messiah on Your Doorstep or TV 60 Moses 61 The Murderer’s Confession 63 For Us (With Love) 65 Prayer of the Good Consumer 67 Evergreen 69 The Rape of a Dream 71 Yours to Use If You Choose 73 Flimsy Excuses 74 The Hunters 77 Melrose Minnesota 78 Song of the Last Animal 80 To His Former Psychologist 82 To His Future Psychologist 85 Joe “the grinner” (megalomaniac in...

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Designed for the discriminating reader who expects a good story, good characters, and above all an aesthetic experience. It's in the language, you know? Contact me at R1234J@hotmail.com...

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There goes Le Roi de Soliel rolling down the hill. Like Roy always says: the first thing you do when you open one of these gallon jugs is toss the cap away. Now, he’s tumbling down a dirt path in the Presidio with the lights of The City winking behind and the GGB, a waterfront hack’s “golden”, glistening through the light fog and beckoning dead ahead. Michigan Bob gets to Roy first to make sure the wine is intact, both of them laughing and coughing, a couple of lunatics in the darkness. Just like them to howl at a new moon as now here comes Tex plummeting down the hill to meet them, hoping he can arrest his momentum before he bowls them over like a couple of tenpins needed for a spare. ...

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THERE GOES LE ROI DE SOLIEL... AN OLD SCORE THE GOOD PROFESSOR A VISIT TO THE LIBRARY WASHINGTON SQUARE CHANCE ENCOUNTER RELAY THE NATURE OF WORLDS THE EDUCATION OF HENRY APPEL, A NOVELLA...

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Get the score you deserve on the TOEFL iBT exam! Wham Media’s Mini-Guide to Success: TOEFL iBT® is written by a seasoned English exam preparer and instructor familiar with the key competencies essential for success in obtaining the highest score possible on the reading, writing, listening, and speaking sections of the test. Speaking and writing continue to be two of the weakest areas for students presenting the exam. Get Wham Media’s Mini-Guide to Success: TOEFL iBT® for general test preparation guidance and suggestions for both the Speaking and Writing Sections. Visit the suggested websites for more help. Get started today preparing for the exam! Finally, learn more about the full guide, Wham Media’s Guide to Success: TOEFL iBT®, for a comprehensive approach to exam preparation and robust resources to achieve the success you seek – and deserve. Get Wham Media’s Mini-Guide today and get a head start on preparing for the exam!...

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ABOUT THE BOOK INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1: PREPARATION IN GENERAL CHAPTER 2: PREPARATION FOR SPEAKING CHAPTER 3: PREPARATION FOR WRITING FINAL THOUGHTS THANK YOU!...

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This book is a Mind Map of the elocution program designed by Katharine Jewel Evert. It is a difficult subject to tackle on paper, that is, without any audio aids. However, in addition to covering the principles of speaking, the map is designed to be used as a workbook with exercises that can be applied to help anyone build a better speaking voice. It's theme is reading different types of books aloud and interpreting the authors thoughts for delivery, via the voice, into the mind of the listeners. This theme is also valid for two people simply talking. Your voice is your expression of yourself, one of the key characteristics that define you to the world (along with appearance and behavior); improve your speaking voice and improve your entire life....

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Characteristic of an instrument (your voice) that is in tune: A pleasing voice, a clear voice, an intelligible voice, a strong voice.

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Self Expression The Speaking Voice, Fundamentals Learning to Support the Tone; The Tuning of the Instrument Freeing the Supported Tone Reinforcing the Tone The Technique of the Instrument Change of Pitch Study in Inflection Study in Tone-Color The Law of Approach The Essay Reading aloud different types of texts...

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Tetris (Russian: Те́трис, pronounced [ˈtɛtrʲɪs]) is a Soviet tile-matching puzzle video game originally designed and programmed by Alexey Pajitnov. It was released on June 6, 1984, while he was working for the Dorodnicyn Computing Centre of the Academy of Science of the USSR in Moscow. He derived its name from the Greek numerical prefix tetra- (all of the game's pieces contain four segments) and tennis, Pajitnov's favorite sport. It is also the first entertainment software to be exported from the USSR to the US and published by Spectrum HoloByte for Commodore 64 and IBM PC. The Tetris game is a popular use of tetrominoes, the four-element special case of polyominoes. Polyominoes have been used in popular puzzles since at least 1907, and the name was given by the mathematician Solomon W. Golomb in 1953. However, even the enumeration of pentominoes is dated to antiquity. The game (or one of its many variants) is available for nearly every video game console and computer operating system, as well as on devices such as graphing calculators, mobile phones, portable media players, PDAs, Network music players and even as an Easter eg...

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Collections of original poetry in the mainstream European tradition.

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Deep Fields Out of the Dark Digging in Into the Fiery Darkness Passing Listening to Transience Seeing, Not Capturing The Meeting Pool Out Here After Long Concentration Beautiful, Shifting Light The Midnight Eye Sounds and Branches Neither One of Us Maker Emotions Move Longings No More Keeping It In Mind News-Time Nameless-River Falls Now The Rain Has Gone Three Poems of the Hills Memory Everything On Fire All the Forms of the World Now the Light is Shining Heart-Stopped Awake and Aware World of Dust The Fact Unforgiving Agenda The Visitor Tranquil Days Thin Air Sleek Birds, Desperate People In the Mountains I Feel Free In the Presence of Natural Beauty ‘The Mountains of themselves are Mountains’ This Side of Lethe Winnowing Freedom Line of Sight The Invisible One All Change Now Clearing Reclaim A Flow of Dream Fracture Ariel Interiority The Trees Are Honest Looking Outward, Seeing Valley Path at Night between Trees Birds of Thought It’s Shared Quiet, Diamond Bright Crisis! What Crisis? Tonight, I Dream of You Creating Space Beached He Leaves Us Behind Uncreated Space Br...

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Twenty-Nine More Poems including Beatrice, The Void.

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To A Woman of Malabar Bertha’s Eyes ‘Je n’ai pas oublié, voisine de la ville,’ ‘La servante au grand coeur dont vous étiez jalouse,’ Landscape The Sun Sorrows of the Moon Don Juan in Hell On Tasso in Prison (Eugène Delacroix’s painting) Femmes Damnées Beauty The Jewels Beatrice Exotic Perfume A Phantom II: The Perfume Afternoon Song The Death of Lovers To A Red-headed Beggar-girl The Death of the Poor Lover’s Wine The Solitary’s Wine The Pipe The Ransom Clouded Sky The Living Torch Spleen Far Away from Here The Void The Moon, Offended Index by First Line...

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Epic Fantasy Narrative Poetry Verse Novel

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A horseman was coming down the road, solemn and grim, wearing a dark cape, and wearing a hat broad of brim. The horse upon which he rode was as dark as the night. The horse had two eyes flashing red, ready for a fight. The black-clothed rider had strong shoulders broad, though his bearing and aura were of a gentleman lord. Hanging at the horseman's side was a mighty sword, a blade of strength and courage wherever it warred. Underneath his hat, the man's face was obscured, though he seemed a man who had much endured. The horse lazily trotted along ignoring the village throng, though her red eyes did flash as though asking for a clash!...

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The Ballad's Prologue The Ballad of the Traveller in the Land of the Angles The Ballad of the Traveller in the Industan Countries The Ballad of the Traveller in the Empire of Shan The Ballad of the Traveller in the Borderlands and Orenai...

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Excerpt: The Poems of George Meredith by George Meredith.

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Contents CHILLIANWALLAH..................................................................................................................... 14 THE DOE: A FRAGMENT........................................................................................................... 15 BEAUTY ROHTRAUT .................................................................................................................. 19 THE OLIVE BRANCH .................................................................................................................. 20 SONG .............................................................................................................................................. 23 THE WILD ROSE AND THE SNOWDROP ............................................................................. 24 THE DEATH OF WINTER .......................................................................................................... 25 SONG .............................................................................................................................................. 26 JOHN LACKLAND ....................................................

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The Lady of the Camellias (French: La Dame aux camélias) is a novel by Alexandre Dumas, fils, first published in 1848, that was subsequently adapted for the stage. The Lady of the Camellias premiered at the Theatre de Vaudeville in Paris, France on February 2, 1852. An instant success, Giuseppe Verdi immediately set about to put the story to music. His work became the 1853 opera La Traviata with the female protagonist Marguerite Gautier renamed Violetta Valéry. In the English-speaking world, The Lady of the Camellias became known as Camille and sixteen versions have been performed at Broadway theatres alone. The lady of the camellias is Marguerite Gautier, who is based on Marie Duplessis, the real life lover of author Dumas, fils. (Summary from Wikipedia)...

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Fiction, Romance

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volunteers sing twenty of their favourite hymns.

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Music, Religion, Poetry

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volunteers bring you 10 recordings of Song by Hartley Coleridge. This was the weekly poetry project for the week of November 16th, 2008.

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Poetry

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Also known as Song of Songs , Solomon's Song of Songs , or as Canticles . The protagonists of the Song of Songs are a woman (identified in one verse as the Shulamite) and a man, and the poem suggests movement from courtship to consummation. Additionally, the Song includes a chorus, the daughters of Jerusalem. In spite of the lack of explicitly religious content, the Song is often interpreted as an allegorical representation of the relationship of God and Israel, or for Christians, God and the Church or Christ and the human soul, as husband and wife. Readers: Beloved: /newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=123 Ezwa Lover: /newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=4705 Algy Pug Friends: /newcatalog/people_public.php?peopleid=3157 TriciaG...

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Religion, Ancient Texts

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volunteers bring you 13 recordings of The Indian Corn Planter by E. Pauline Johnson. This was the Weekly Poetry project for April 29, 2012. But in the writings of one poet alone I came upon a new note—the note of the Red Man's Canada. This was the poet that most interested me—Pauline Johnson. I quoted her lovely canoe song In the Shadows, which will be found in this volume. I at once sat down and wrote a long article, which could have been ten times as long, upon a subject so suggestive as that of Canadian poetry. (From the Introduction to Flint and Feather, Collected Verse BY E. Pauline Johnson; written by Theodore Watts-Dunton, The Pines, Putney Hill. 20th August, 1913....

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Historical Fiction, Instruction, Nature, Poetry

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volunteers bring you 17 recordings of The Fiddler of Dooney by William Butler Yeats. This was the Weekly Poetry project for December 4th 2011 William Butler Yeats was a notable Irish poet and playwright. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1923. The Fiddler of Dooney first appeared in Yeats' 1899 book of poetry 'The Wind Among the Reeds`. (Summary by Lucy Perry)...

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Fiction, Humor, Music, Religion, Poetry

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volunteers bring you 19 recordings of A Song in Spring by Thomas S. Jones, Jr. This was the weekly poetry project for March 15th, 2009.

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Poetry

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Work on the translation began in 1853 by a London businessman called Ferrar Fenton (1832–1920). The complete Bible was first published in 1903, though parts were published as separate volumes during the preceding 11 years. The translation is noted for a rearranging of the books of the Bible into what the author believed was the correct chronological order. In the Old Testament, this order follows that of the Hebrew Bible. The name of God was translated throughout the Old Testament as The Ever-Living. The Bible is described as translated into English direct from the original Hebrew, Chaldee, and Greek languages. For his translation of the Book of Job which appeared in 1898, Fenton was assisted by Henrik Borgström. This was rendered into the same metre as the original Hebrew, word by word and line by line. His translation of the New Testament is based on the Greek text of Westcott and Hort. The ordering novelty in the New Testament is that it places the Gospel of John and the First Epistle of John at the beginning before the Gospel of Matthew, thus placing the Acts of the Apostles immediately after the Gospel of Luke. Notable as well,...

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Religion

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This poem tells a story that begins in 1823 - just after the Leavenworth campaign against the Arikara Indians - and follows an expedition of Major Andrew Henry during a series of arduous journeys over the Trans-Missouri region. The poem focuses upon the relationship between two trappers - Hugh Glass and Jamie - who, after fighting and hunting together, consequently develop a close friendship. The poem revolves around the betrayal of Hugh by Jamie: who leaves Hugh alone as good as dead to die by the Missouri. But Hugh lives - and recovers against all odds, pushing on with murderous intent to track down the ex-friend who left him helpless and expiring. The final canto describes the moving denouement: Hugh and Jamie both are forced to recognize their own weaknesses, and then come to terms with the implications of their individual realizations. (Introduction by Godsend)...

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volunteers from around the world bring you Christmas stories, carols and poems in English, German, Hungarian, Latin, Portuguese, Russian and Spanish. A merry Christmas to you all!...

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Holiday, Poetry, Short stories, Music