American black bears American black bears appear in a variety of colors despite their name. In the eastern part of their range, most of these brown, red, or even yellow coats. To the north, the black bear is actually gray or white in color. Even in t...
Once upon a time there was a child ready to be born. So one day he asked God, They tell me you are sending me to earth tomorrow, but how am I going to live there being so small and helpless? 从前,有个孩子马上就要诞生了。于是有一天他...
Shelly to Elizabeth Hitchener Chestnut Cottage, Keswick Tuesday, 12 November 1811 雪莱致伊丽莎白西琴勒 Chestnut Cottage, Keswick 星期二 1811年11月12日 Your letter of the 1st hath this moment reached me. I answer it according to our ag...
A woman named Emily renewing her driver's license at the County Clerk's office was asked by the woman recorder to state her occupation. She hesitated, uncertain how to classify herself. What I mean is, explained the recorder, do you have a job, or ar...
My room at home was too small for me. I barely had room for all the little knickknacks I'd collected over the years. There were so many things I had to pack away in boxes and store in closets all over the house. Oftentimes I didn't quite remember exa...
Diogenes was a famous Greek philosopher of the fourth century B.C., who established the philosophy of cynicism. He often walked about in the daytime holding a lighted lantern, peering around as if he were looking for something. When questioned about...
It is Sunday now, John, and all have gone to church. The wagons have done passing and I have come out in the new grass to listen to the anthems. Three or four hens have followed me and we sit side by side. And while they crow and whisper, I'll tell y...
I Am Nobody!Who are you? Are you nobody, too? Then theres a pair of us - dont tell! Theyd banish us, you know. How dreary to be somebody! How public, like a frog To tell your name the livelong day To an admiring bog! This poem is a typical Dickinso...
Bring me the sunset in a cup, Reckon the morning's flagons up And say how many Dew, Tell me how far the morning leaps - Tell me what time the weaver sleeps Who spun the breadth of blue! Write me how many notes there be In the new Robin's ecstasy Amon...
I dwell in Possibility - A fairer House than Prose - More numerous of Windows - Superior - for Doors - Of Chambers as the Cedars - Impregnable of Eye - And for an Everlasting Roof The Gambrels of the Sky - Of Visitors - the fairest - For Occupation -...
I'll tell you how the Sun rose - A Ribbon at a time - The Steeples swam in Amethyst - The news, like Squirrels, ran - The Hills untied their Bonnets - The Bobolinks - begun - Then I said softly to myself - That must have been the Sun! But how he set...
Bee! I'm expecting you! Was saying Yesterday To Somebody you know That you were due - The Frogs got Home last Week - Are settled, and at work - Birds, mostly back - The Clover warm and thick - You'll get my Letter by The seventeenth; Reply Or better,...
If I can stop one Heart from breaking I shall not live in vain If I can ease one Life the Aching Or cool one Pain Or help one fainting Robin Unto his Nest again I shall not live in Vain. This beautiful poem expresses the wish of the human heart to ma...
A precious - mouldering pleasure - 'tis - To meet an Antique Book - In just the Dress his Century wore - A privilege - I think - His venerable Hand to take - And warming in our own - A passage back - or two - to make - To Times when he - was young -...
A darting fear - a pomp - a tear - A waking on a morn To find that what one waked for, Inhales the different dawn. Everyday can be a new beginning, even if one may have fear for the unknown future and realizes that the past is but a pomp with a sad t...