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A collection of the author's original poetry centered around the themes of spiritual search and individual identity in the modern world.

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...Loose, Shifting Ghost Incantation Soul’s Mirror Trying To Make It Behind the Words Reflection No One Mind and Its Light Babel’s Tower Core Remains Word The Book Grave Goods Stranger You Build the Tower Birthing Your Image The Singing Here The Name River We Can Listen Writing Me I Entered Lances The Kingdom of Nothing Folded ...

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.... Parma, Italy 1581), trans. Edward Fairfax (London 1600) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...hat ships and barks devours, But there drowns cities, countries, towns and towers; XLIV Both in one troop, and but a thousand all, Under another Rober... ...s and with their guide of power Like Troy’s old town defenced with Ilion’s tower. 19 Torquato Tasso LXII Next Stephen of Amboise did five thousand le... ...rait they closed found. LXXV They meet no forces gathered by their foe, No towers defenced with rampire, moat, or wall, No stream, no wood, no mountai... ...at forteress, That round it could not be environed With narrow siege — nor Babel’s king I guess That whilom took it, such an army led — But all the wa... ...thou are our guide, If thou miscarry, all our hope were lost, By thee must Babel fell, and all her pride; Of our true faith thou art the prop and post... ...r and of age, Among these legions I could haply find, I should the best of Babel’s pride assuage, And spread our faith from Thule to furthest Inde; Bu...

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... took the child jesus into his arms to carry him and kiss him. and when thou hast finished reading, close the book and give thanks for every word out of the mouth of god; because in the lord?s field thou hast found a hidden treasure.?...

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... 61 CHAPTER XX 63 THE LOVE OF BOOKS THE PHILOBIBLON OF RICHARD DE BURY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY E.... ...OF RICHARD DE BURY TRANSLATED INTO ENGLISH BY E. C. THOMAS is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Docu ment file is fu... ...sity. This Portable Docu ment file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ..., would now have been unknown to fame, if the aid of books had been wanting. Towers have been razed to the ground; cities have been overthrown; tri u... ...ve been the condition of books if it had not been for the presumption of the tower of Babel, if but one kind of speech had been transmitted by the who... ...he condition of books if it had not been for the presumption of the tower of Babel, if but one kind of speech had been transmitted by the whole human ...

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...resented in this Goethe; a singular, highly significant phenomenon, and now also means more or less complete for ascertaining its significance. A man of wonderful, nay, unexampled reputation and intellectual influence among forty millions of reflective, serious and cultivated men, invites us to study him; and to determine for ourselves, whether and how far such influence h...

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...ns. John Oxenford, with an introduction by Thomas Carlyle is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...d to a period long past and unquiet, both for town and district. Gates and towers, which defined the bounds of the old city,— then, farther on again, ... ... which defined the bounds of the old city,— then, farther on again, gates, towers, walls, bridges, ramparts, moats, with which the new city was encomp... ...ere to be made use of in this journey, to gain us a passage through many a tower, stair, and postern, were in the hands of the authorities, whose subo... ... as the model of those vast conceptions, the spirit of which, like that of Babel, strove up to heaven, and which were so out of proportion to earthly ...

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...ICS SERIES PUBLICATION Three Soldiers by John Dos Passos is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ty Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ... to a huge moving brilliance, like the front of a high-class theatre, that towered above the ferry boats. Y ou could often hear the thump of the screw... ... for hours on sidings amid meadows, where it was quiet and where above the babel of voices of the regiment you could hear the skylarks, now clattering... ... at his feet he could see, in the shadow of the hill he stood on, a church tower and a few roofs rising out of the mist, as out of water. Among the ho... ...e grey. Walters was speaking: “The first thing I want to see is the Eiffel Tower.” “Why d’you want to see that?” said the small sergeant with a black ...

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Excerpt: The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850), Dictated by Sojourner Truth, edited by Olive Gilbert.

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...Contents NARRATIVE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH ................................................................................................................................................................................ 4 HER BIRTH AND PARENTAGE.......

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...ctated by Sojourner Truth (ca.1797-1883) Edited by Olive Gilbert NARRATIVE OF SOJOURNER TRUTH Written by Olive Gilbert, based on information provided ... ... Truth. A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Narrative of Sojourner Truth (1850), Dictated by Sojourner Truth, edited by Olive Gil... ...50), Dictated by Sojourner Truth, edited by Olive Gilbert is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furni... ...ntiments, the following is said to be reliable: ‘The spirit that built the Tower of Babel is now in the world-it is the spirit of the devil. The spiri... ... the following is said to be reliable: ‘The spirit that built the Tower of Babel is now in the world-it is the spirit of the devil. The spirit of man ...

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Excerpt: The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One.

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............................................................................................................................................... 14 DEATH OF EDGAR A. POE BY N. P. WILLIS........................................................................................................ 19 THE UNPARALLELED ADVENTURES OF ONE HANS PFAAL............................................

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... Volume One A Penn State Electronic Classics Series Publication The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One is a publication of the Penn... ...ity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...ument or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe in Five Volumes: Volume One, the Pennsylvania State Univ... ... strange place! What is the meaning of yon- der singular building? See! it towers above all others, and lies to the eastward of what I take to be the ... ... a multiplicity of sects and nations! what a variety of cos- tumes! what a Babel of languages! what a screaming of beasts! what a tinkling of instrume... ...s, may be seen, indistinctly and at intervals, stupendous ramparts of ice, towering away into the desolate sky, and looking like the walls of the univ... ...he bowels of the earth; the Pole itself being represented by a black rock, towering to a prodigious height. 217 V olume One The Oval Portrait THE CHA...

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...Index A A blow felled Artaxerxes, with a thrust 466 A branch of Est there in the Guelfian tree 392 A bugle small he winded loud and shrill, 162 ?A burning fire, so are those deserts charmed, 307 A Christian once, Macon he now adores, 27 A dreadful thunder-clap at last he heard, 402 A f...

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.... Parma, Italy 1581), trans. Edward Fairfax (London 1600) is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any per- son using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...or, Hazleton, PA 18201-1291 is a Portable Document File pro- duced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...hat ships and barks devours, But there drowns cities, countries, towns and towers; XLIV Both in one troop, and but a thousand all, Under another Rober... ...s and with their guide of power Like Troy’s old town defenced with Ilion’s tower. 19 Torquato Tasso LXII Next Stephen of Amboise did five thousand le... ...rait they closed found. LXXV They meet no forces gathered by their foe, No towers defenced with rampire, moat, or wall, No stream, no wood, no mountai... ...at forteress, That round it could not be environed With narrow siege — nor Babel’s king I guess That whilom took it, such an army led — But all the wa... ...thou are our guide, If thou miscarry, all our hope were lost, By thee must Babel fell, and all her pride; Of our true faith thou art the prop and post... ...r and of age, Among these legions I could haply find, I should the best of Babel’s pride assuage, And spread our faith from Thule to furthest Inde; Bu...

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...Introduction: Homer?s ?Iliad? begins towards the close of the last of the ten years of the Trojan War: its incidents extend over some fifty days only, and it ends with the burial of Hector. The things which came before and after were told by other bards, who between them narrated...

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...Troy by Quintus Smyrnaeus, T ranslated by A. S. Way, 1913 is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document File is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document File is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and i... ...document or for the file as an electronic transmission, in any way. The Fall of Troy by Quintus Smyrnaeus, T ranslated by A. S. Way, 1913 , the Penns... ... of men. Laughing for glee Thereover, swiftly flashed she forth the ring Of towers. Her coming kindled all the sons Of Troy to rush into the battle ... ...y, their souls were cowed: backward they shrank, And fast she followed, as a towering surge Chases across the thunder booming sea A flying bark, whose... ...ngs come Of that wild fray to Aias stormy souled, Nor to Achilles, waster of tower and town. But on the grave mound of Menoetius’ son They twain were ... ...air; Then feasted they before that cliff like wall, Ceteian men and Trojans: babel of talk Rose from the feasters: all around the glow Of blazing camp...

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... Paradise Lost, A Poem in Twelve Books by John Milton is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...ersity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in... ...Editor, Hazleton, PA 18201 1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of lit... ...s bane. And here let those Who boast in mortal things, and wondring tell Of BABEL, and the works of MEMPHIAN Kings, Learn how thir greatest Monuments... ...nts came With many a vain exploit, though then renownd: The builders next of BABEL on the Plain Of SENNAAR, and still with vain designe New BABELS, ha... ...mark thir doings, them beholding soon, Comes down to see thir Citie, ere the Tower Obstruct Heav’n Towrs, and in derision sets Upon thir Tongues a var... ... free. But this Usurper his encroachment proud Stayes not on Man; to God his Tower intends Siege and defiance: Wretched man! what food Will he convey ...

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...ing it would be bad enough; but it goes further, into disastrous anarchical action. Because our marriage law is inhuman and unreasonable to the point of downright abomination, the bolder and more rebellious spirits form illicit unions, defiantly sending cards round to their friends announcing what they have done....

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...eries Publication Getting Married by George Bernard Shaw is a publication of the Pennsylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furnis... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ...itor, Hazleton, PA 18202-1291 is a Portable Document File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...se built to last for ever. The walls and beams are big enough to carry the tower of Babel, as if the builders, anticipating our modern ideas and insti... ...to last for ever. The walls and beams are big enough to carry the tower of Babel, as if the builders, anticipating our modern ideas and instinctively ... ...ce to a vaulted circular chamber with a winding stair leading up through a tower to the upper floors of the palace. In the wall to our right is the im... ...when you cant hardly tell who any one is or isnt. [He goes out through the tower, and imme- diately returns for a moment to announce] The General, maa...

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...Introduction: The Koran admittedly occupies an important position among the great religious books of the world. Though the youngest of the epoch-making works belonging to this class of literature, it yields to hardly any in the wonderful effect which it has produced on large masses of men. It has created an all but new ph...

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...1 96 Thick Blood or Clots of Blood 2 74 The Enwrapped 3 73 The Enfolded 4 93 The Brightness 5 94 The Opening 6 113 The Daybreak 7 114 Men 8 1 Sura I. 9 109 Unbelievers 10 112 The Unity...

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.... Rev. J. M. Rodwell, Introduction by Rev. G. Margoliouth is a publication of the Penn- sylvania State University. This Portable Document file is furn... ...sity. This Portable Document file is furnished free and without any charge of any kind. Any person using this document file, for any purpose, and in a... ... Editor, Hazleton, PA 18202 is a Portable Docu- ment File produced as part of an ongoing student publication project to bring classical works of liter... ...oran, Written on the preserved Table. 1 Lit. By the Heaven furnished with towers, where the an- gels keep watch; also, the signs of the Zodiac: this ... ...e shall they shade or help you:”– The sparks which it casteth out are like towers– Like tawny camels. Woe on that day to those who charged with impost... ... on them the scourge of chas- tisement, 2 For thy Lord standeth on a watch tower. As to man, when his Lord trieth him and honoureth him and is bounteo... ... to men, and what had been revealed to the two angels, Harut and Marut, at Babel. Yet no man did these two teach until they had said, “We are only a t... ...rning the influence of angels upon men at the time of the Deluge. p. 106. “Babel is regarded by the Muslims as the fountain head of the science of mag... ...now or hereafter, chose the former, and are still suspended by the feet at Babel in a rocky pit, and are the great teachers of magic.” (Lane on ch. ii...