Eminent poet Edmund Spenser (1552/1553 – 1599) lived during the Elizabethan era. His most famous work is The Faerie Queene, an epic poem with an allegorical
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A Poem With A Hidden Acrostic
Gordon Macdonald was the governor of Newfoundland from 1946 to 1949. He played an important part for making Newfoundland part of Canada. Despite fierce opposition, he succeeded
To Nothing
Mysterious Nothing! how shall I defineThy shapeless, baseless, placeless emptiness?Nor form, nor colour, sound, nor size is thine,Nor words nor fingers can thy voice express;But
“Cacoethes Scribendi”
If all the trees in all the woods were men,And each and every blade of grass a pen;If every leaf on every shrub and treeTurned
Gleanings from the Past #3
A Convoluted Testimony A witness being called to give evidence in a court of Connecticut, respecting the loss of a shirt, gave the following—”Mother said,
Msr. Kr. Mr.
Wordplay aficionado Willard R. Espy wondered why if Mr. is the abbreviation of “mister”, why shouldn’t “kissed her” be abbreviated to “kr.” and “blister” to
