John Pierpoint was born in 1785 in Litchfield, Connecticut. His career is mainly that of Educator, Pastor and Social Activist. He was particularly strident on Temperance and the abolition of Slavery. Both of these issues caused him to be at odds with entrenched interests but he was not to be deterred and continued the struggle all through his life. After two weeks' service as a 76-year-old military chaplain during the Civil War, Pierpont was given an appointment in the Treasury Department i...

On 29th November 1775 Thomas Jefferson said “Believe me, dear Sir, there is not, in the British Empire, a man who more cordially loves a union with Great Britain than I do. But, by the God that made me, I will cease to exist, before I yield to such a connection on such terms as the British Parliament propose, and in this I think I speak the sentiments of America”. The War for Independence had already started some months previously and with no prospect of a reconciliation it was on the 4th ...

The life and career of a Poet is often thought of as musing at a desk, or lying in a meadow, or on long journeys to find inspiration for their next masterwork. But more often than not a poet was a part-time profession in subservient submission to their actual, salary-paying job.In this volume we bring together those professionals we engage to bring the full force of the law to bear where we have been wronged, either personally or professionally. Despite the complex morals of such w...

My mother bore me in the southern wild,And I am black, but O my soul is white!White as an angel is the English child,But I am black, as if bereaved of light.My mother taught me underneath a tree,And, sitting down before the heat of day,She took me on her lap and kissèd me,And, pointing to the East, began to say:‘Look on the rising sun: there God does live,And gives His light, and gives His heat away,And flowers...

John Keats Emily Dickinson Walt Whitman John Milton Oscar Wilde Henry Wadsworth Longfellow D.H. Lawrence Alfred Tennyson Tennyson Aldous Huxley

Benjamin Franklin's classic book is full of timeless, thought-provoking insights that are as valuable today as they were over two centuries ago. With more than 700 pithy proverbs, Franklin lays out the rules everyone should live by and offers advice on such subjects as money, friendship, marriage, ethics, and human nature. They range from the famous "A penny saved is a penny earned" to the lesser-known but equally practical "When the wine enters, out goes the truth." Other truisms like "Fi...

Chamber Music (The Original Edition of 34 Poems) presents James Joyce's early lyric sequence as a finely tuned meditation on courtship, desire, estrangement, and artistic self-consciousness. Written in a delicate, songlike idiom, the poems draw on Elizabethan lyric, fin-de-siècle symbolism, and the musical cadences suggested by the title. Their apparent simplicity—rhymed stanzas, refrains, pastoral imagery, and graceful address—conceals a disciplined formal intelligence, anticipating Joyce...

Adonis tragically chooses the excitement of the hunt over the charms of the beautiful Venus.

This volume contains selected works from several poets that are available in the public domain. All the poets have some connection to the city of Baltimore, Maryland, which was the primary reason for thieeir inclusion. The most famous of these poets are, of course, Edgar Allan Poe, who is, perhaps most famous for his macabre wrtings, but whose poetry is still valued today, Emily Dickinson, who is still studied in nearly all college English programs,

This is one of the most complete collections of Emerson's poems. He, a leader in the Transcendentalist movement, was known for his inspirational and powerful lyrical works. This is the extended annotated edition containing a rare biological essay about Emerson an his life. The poems are divided into the following chapters: I - Poems II - May-Day And Other Pieces III - Elements And Mottoes IV - Quatrains And Translations V - Appendix VI -Poems Of Youth And Early Manhood

Benjamin Franklin was concerned with making the sometimes bitter pill of truth about the human condition easier to swallow. In The Way to Wealth, Franklin refines his maxims and homilies in order to make them more subtle and sophisticated. As a successful author, inventor, scientist, statesman and one of the Founding Fathers of America, he exemplifies the emerging American nation. A man who was very proud of his working roots, in 1758, the year he ceased writing for the Almanack, he printe...

Songs Of Innocence And Songs Of Experience by William Blake.