I sure am glad that I attended this great lecture in the East Zone conference that was held in Philadelphia this April. It was based on the wondrous text of the Holy Quran and how to think of Ayahs in a totally different light. The speakers were not only extremely eloquent but gave fascinating perspectives [...]

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My luve’s like a red, red rose,
That’s newly sprung in June;
My luve’s like the melodie
That’s sweetly play’d in tune.
As fair art thou, my bonie lass,
So deep in luve am I,
And I will luve thee still, my Dear,
Till a’ the seas gang dry
Till a’ the seas gang dry, my Dear,
And the rocks melt wi’ the sun:
I [...]

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The life that I have
Is all that I have
And the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.
The love that I have
Of the life that I have
Is yours and yours and yours.
A sleep I shall have
A rest I shall have
Yet death will be but a pause.
For the peace of my years
In the long green [...]

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The play begins with a street brawl between Montagues and Capulets. The Prince of Verona intervenes and declares that further breach of the peace will be punishable by death. Later, Count Paris talks to Lord Capulet about marrying his daughter, but Capulet is wary of the request because Juliet is still only thirteen. Capulet asks [...]

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Enthralled by his love for the beautiful and captivating Cleopatra, Mark Antony languishes at the courts of Egypt, totally neglecting his political and military duties as a member of Rome’s ruling triumvirate. He learns that Octavius is angry at his conduct and that his own wife, Fulvia, has gone to battle against Octavius and is [...]

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Comedy:
1- All’s Well That Ends Well.
2- As You Like It.
3- The Comedy of Errors
4- Cymbeline
5- Love’s Labours Lost
6- Measure for Measure
7- The Merry Wives of Windsor
8- The Merchant of Venice
9- A Midsummer Night’s Dream
10- Much Ado About Nothing
11- Pericles, Prince of Tyre
12- Taming of the Shrew
13-The Tempest
14-Troilus and Cressida
15- Twelfth Night
16- Two Gentlemen of Verona
17- [...]

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Details about William Shakespeare’s life are sketchy, mostly mere surmise based upon court or other clerical records. His parents, John and Mary (Arden), were married about 1557; she was of the landed gentry, he a yeoman—a glover and commodities merchant. By 1568, John had risen through the ranks of town government and held the position [...]

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“The Home of Emily Dickinson Amherst College Amherst, Massachusetts.” Photo by Frank Ward.

This is the family home of Emily Dickinson x1849, located in Amherst, MA. Also included are some Emily Dickinson postcards from the Jones Library in Amherst.
 

“A Dickinson family writing table and chair in the poet’s bedroom. The Dickinson Homestead Amherst College Amherst, Massachusetts.” [...]

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I felt a funeral in my brain,
   And mourners, to and fro,
Kept treading, treading, till it seemed
   That sense was breaking through.
And when they all were seated,
   A service like a drum
Kept beating, beating, till I thought
   My mind was going numb
And then I heard them lift a box,
   And creak across my soul
With those [...]

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Fame is a fickle food
Upon a shifting plate
Whose table once a
Guest but not
The second time is set.

Whose crumbs the crows inspect
And with ironic caw
Flap past it to the Farmer’s Corn –
Men eat of it and die.

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