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...From: "The Bird-Headed Woman" On an isolated farm near the Black River lived a farmer and his wife who had recently given birth to a child. She quarreled with him because he raged at her in his religion, accusing her of wrongs she had not done to him, and so she left him and took her child...

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... pot for dead souls, regardless of their deeds in life. The book begins with Charon, ferryman of the Styx (in The Inferno, he was the ferryman of the river Acheron) being startled—and annoyed—by the arrival of a house boat on the Styx. At first afraid that the boat will put him out of business, he later finds out that he is actually to be appointed the boat's janitor. What...

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...ds during the course of time. Now it was time to let the past sink into the river while they focus on the future. He brushed a dark strand of h... ...o with it. The boy leaned on his sword with one arm and looked ahead at the river. “I shall miss this river,” he said softly. “We had lots of me... ...p the former laird in his own tracks. The guard turned his back on the river and led his son back to their pack of horses just as the other gua...

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...ds during the course of time. Now it was time to let the past sink into the river while they focus on the future. He brushed a dark strand of h... ...o with it. The boy leaned on his sword with one arm and looked ahead at the river. “I shall miss this river,” he said softly. “We had lots of me... ...p the former laird in his own tracks. The guard turned his back on the river and led his son back to their pack of horses just as the other gua...

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... stars, to come of dreams. I dare to see sweet in her soul, red in its fire, rivers run of my blood through her veins. Where oceans drown a little bit... ...y partings in oceans? Why does the rain reply? Why do brooks run dry? Why do rivers overflow when seas of blue worship the sky? For every rose to seek... ... myself with holy water and name each drop that cleanses my face, as earthly rivers escape through my fingers. Quenching the thirst of the air dry san...

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...ed with a myriad of living things, each extraordinary and vital in its own way. The large river that flowed there gave life to this fertile land. Pr... ...owed there gave life to this fertile land. Presently, this land is known as Egypt and the river it is blessed with is called the Nile, but in this t... ... in Egypt conceal, in their untold depths, many things. In this ancient time however, the river was twice the width it is today, and all along its s... ...ople had settled not far from the main city, established on the plains to the west of the river. Wild animals abounded, crops were plenty, and the pe... ...ving our farming technology or building better and safer water craft for travel along the river?” Alaj did not wait for an answer. Zazmaria’s conti... ...he was no longer floating above the bed, but she was walking along the banks of the great river. Ahead she saw a full moon, which seemed to cast a w... ...ath her hands. She heard a sound and turned around quickly. Zazmaria was standing on the riverbank staring intently at her. Zazmaria raised her hand... ...ge in the water and she fell through the water’s surface into the icy, dark depths of the river. She struggled to reach the surface, but felt hersel... .... Odai had found the lion cub nine years ago in the bushes several leagues south down the river. Its mother had abandoned it and the cub was barely a...

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...d commended her to God, and so rode into a deep valley, and there he saw a river and an high mountain. And through the water he must needs pass, the w...

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...e undergraduates instantly formed themselves in lines from the fire to the river, and in swift continuance kept passing buckets as was needful, till t... ...en Mr. Hare, going along the line, was astonished to find Sterling, at the river-end of it, stand- ing up to his waist in water, deftly dealing with t... ...water, deftly dealing with the buck- ets as they came and went. You in the river, Sterling; you with your coughs, and dangerous tendencies of health!—... ...nport with Mrs. Buller, I went some of the way by water, up the harbor and river; and the pros- pects are certainly very beautiful; to say nothing of ... ...hich would never do. Besides, it was talk not flow- ing any-whither like a river, but spreading every-whither in inextricable currents and regurgitati... ...terling, whose presence of mind seldom forsook him, casts his eye over the River and its craft; sees a wherry, privately signals it, drops rapidly on ... ...t; for the rain poured past the bookcases, as if it had been the Colonarie River. But we carried a good deal of furniture into the passage at the entr... ...ic difficulties, now in its fourth or fifth year, on the wrong side of the river, as a mere aggregate of Maga- zine Articles; having at last been slit... ...ts highest beauty. The mass of buildings, chiefly on the other side of the River, is suffi- cient to fill the eye, without perplexing the mind by vast...

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...s high horse. “Jean, fill up all the holes except those at the bank of the river; there you are to plant the pop- lars I have bought. Plant ‘em there,... ...immer seizes the over- hanging branch of a willow to draw himself from the river and lie at rest upon its shore. Did no dread of a coming ab- sence sa... ...aden with sacks, they all had their comments to make:— “Water flows to the river; the old fellow was running after his gold,” said one. “He gets it fr...

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... love of nature, his fondness for rustic surroundings, his boating on the river Aufidus, his fishing. He liked to play ball. I could visualize him, ... ... 57 Peter’s—early morning Sivan 8 Shall we be like trees planted by rivers of water? Shall we mature slowly like the olive? Shall we endure tw...

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...imal has a different meaning." ShadowGrass's pelt ran from her neck in red rivers down her arms. She raised TripStone to her feet and walked her ar... ...cent. "One summer night," Zai said, hesitating, "Ulik had gone down to the riverbed and picked up a handful of night bloomers. Neither of us had com... ..."I'm BrokenThread." "TripStone." She sat next to the child. "She was born RiverRun," WindTamer said. He squeezed the girl's shoulder affectionatel... ...ossip and laughter lifted and dipped with the breeze. A faint voice intoned RiverRun. TripStone froze, angling her head to hear better. FeatherFly s... ...hed to know the rest. Did the speaker even know that the girl was no longer RiverRun but BrokenThread? Frowning, TripStone reached for another sack ... ...red in the woods? Had a tree fallen and crushed her delicate frame? Had the river currents rushed her away? Had a viper struck, sinking its venom in... ...tter that way. No sense burdening the others with her worries. Whispers of RiverRun's disappearance had begun to circulate through Crossroads. Brok... ...th her very body. She accepted death even as her life continued impossibly. RiverRun was the frightened little girl who wanted to be safe and cradle... ... now, when it hurt too much even to scream— BrokenThread felt herself to be RiverRun. She tensed with fear when twigs cracked outside. She had night...

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...e That Strain, That Churning Un-Managed Alone Find Silence Going Owl-Cries II: The Citadel of Mind Ancestral Mapping Wilderness As Selves River Things The More And Less Mind-Clothes Every Child Intense Denial Hawk in Winter Abyss To Know Is Not To Feel Patience Not As It Seems Candle Transformation Moment Beauty Yearning III: The Sacred House ...

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...weary (my desire) of following, ‘Déjà la nuit en son parc amassoit’ Already night has gathered in her train ‘Dieu qui reçois en ton giron humide’ River-god who receives in your humid flow, ‘Ny par les bois les Driades courantes,’ Not Dryads running lightly through the trees, ‘S'il a dict vray, seiche pour moy l'ombrage’ If he spoke true, then parch for me the shade...

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...fled, like foam _345 Down the steep cataract of a wintry river; Now pausing on the edge of the riven wave; Now leaving far behind th... .... Daylight shone _370 At length upon that gloomy river’s flow; Now, where the fiercest war among the waves Is calm, on the u... ...nd the hiss of homeless streams Mingling its solemn song, whilst the broad river Foaming and hurrying o’er its rugged path, Fell into that immeasurabl... ...nd, and returned to England from Lucerne, by the Reuss and the Rhine. This river-navigation enchanted him. In his favourite poem of “Thalaba”, his ima... ...nc. I have been a wanderer among distant fields. I have sailed down mighty rivers, and seen the sun rise and set, and the stars come forth, whilst I h... ... a bark, which from a chasm of mountains, Dark, vast and overhanging, on a river Which there collects the strength of all its fountains, Comes forth, ... ...reathless with delight. 46 46 46 46 46. ‘In lonely glens, amid the roar of rivers, When the dim nights were moonless, have I known Joys which no tongu... ...ne floor, Small serpent eyes trailing from side to side, Like meteors on a river’s grassy shore, _625 They round each oth... ...s, whom the swift bolt overthrew, Or the red sword, failed like a mountain river Which rushes forth in foam to sink in sands for ever. _2460 15...

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... well, said Sir Tristram, now I assign you to meet me in the meadow by the river of Camelot, where Merlin set the peron. So they were agreed. Then Sir... ...us tidings. What be they? said the king. Sir, there is here beneath at the river a great stone which I saw fleet above the water, and therein I saw st... ...e that marvel. So all the knights went with him, and when they came to the river they found there a stone fleeting, as it were of red marble, and ther... ...r – V ol. Two Therewith the king and all espied where came riding down the river a lady on a white palfrey toward them. Then she sa- luted the king an... ...fore him a strong castle with deep ditches, and there ran beside it a fair river that hight Severn; and there he met with a man of great age, and eith... ...d commended her to God, and so rode into a deep valley, and there he saw a river and an high mountain. And through the water he must needs pass, the w...

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... well, said Sir Tristram, now I assign you to meet me in the meadow by the river of Camelot, where Merlin set the peron. So they were agreed. Then Sir...

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...e Not By Naming Getting There Looking Back One Pure Mindless Flow Why We Are Here Between Layers All That Freedom Go Through Later The Same River Chinese Lanterns Angular Branching Fir The Force Between Not An Inch Brush Cityscape ‘Master of Heights And Distance’ Transparent Sideways On Revealing Mind All One Mind-Dance Neither/Nor Moving Earth T...

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...ng to the health of some plantations, that they have built along the sea and rivers, in marish and un wholesome grounds. Therefore, though you begin ... ...and races; too near the sea, too remote; having the commodity of navi gable rivers, or the discommodity of their overflowing; too 98 far off from gr... ...d species virtutibus similes, serve best with them. Certainly fame is like a river, that beareth up things light and swoln, and drowns things weighty ... ...s sentence, That all novelty is but oblivion. Whereby you may see, that the river of Lethe runneth as well above ground as below. There is an abstrus... ...kes are seldom in those parts. But on the other side, they have such pouring rivers, as the rivers of Asia and Africk and Europe, are but brooks to th...

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...Beside a riverbed, an old man sits lost in his thoughts; he is SEATTLE, Chief of the Suqamish Indians. He remembers his boyhood when his grandfather foretold him of his destiny, when he was told of the Web Of Life and his duties as it...

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... He had been sitting for most of the day on a flat boulder along the bank ofthe river. A thin rawhide string hung from the pole, a bent hook was att... ...ped around it. The worm wriggled and strained against the swift currents of the river trying to entice the cun­ ning silver fish. But for most of the... ... come. As he stared into the crystal green water just below the surface of the river, his thoughts strayed to a time when he was very young and sat... ... and that only a few had ever been given this gift. One day as they sat at the river's edge his grandfather told him that he, too, had been given t... ...est. The memories cascaded through Seattle's mind as he sat on the bank of the river waiting for the silver fish that his grandfa­ ther had called "... ..., who lived far to the east and lived in a great white lodge, ever sat beside a river and fished. In any case, the White Chief had sent word that he... ...t forest that was made by the Great Spirit? Who can possess the sparkle of the river and stream? But it had been made clear, by Governor Stevens an... ...ition on the worn flat rock that laid, per­ haps, for centuries beside the Green River. His old bones moved slowly, it took time for the feeling to r... ...eagle, these are our broth­ ers. The shining water that moves in the streams and rivers is not just water, but the blood of our ancestors." "We know...

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...Kubla Khan Or, a vision in a dream. A Fragment.   In Xanadu did Kubla Khan A stately pleasure-dome decree: Where Alph, the sacred river, ran Through caverns measureless to man Down to a sunless sea. So twice five miles of fertile ground With walls and towers were girdled round; And there were gardens bright with sinuous rills, Where blossomed many...

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...t: To the Autumnal Moon A Mathematical Problem To the Rev. George Coleridge I II III IV Sonnet: On Quitting School for College Sonnet: To the River Otter On a Discovery Made Too Late The Eolian Harp Lines in the Manner of Spenser Reflections on Having Left a Place of Retirement Sonnet: Composed on a Journey Homeward; the Author Having Received Intelligence of ...