Day had broken cold and grey, exceedingly cold and grey, when the man turned aside from the main Yukon trail and climbed the high earth- bank, where a dim and little-travelled trail led eastward through the fat spruce…
Small, busy flames play through the fresh laid coals,And their faint cracklings o’er our silence creepLike whispers of the household gods that keepA gentle empire o’er fraternal souls.And while, for rhymes, I search a…
At a restaurant, a cockroach suddenly flew from somewhere and sat on a lady. She started screaming out of fear. With a panic stricken face and trembling voice, she started jumping with both her hands desperately tryin…
O soft embalmer of the still midnight!Shutting, with careful fingers and benign,Our gloom-pleas’d eyes, embower’d from the light,Enshaded in forgetfulness divine;O soothest Sleep! if so it please thee, close,In midst …
To The Nile by John Keats Son of the old Moon-mountains African!Chief of the Pyramid and Crocodile!We call thee fruitful, and that very whileA desert fills our seeing’s inward span:Nurse of swart nations since the wor…
It is now about a year since I took passage at Calcutta in the ship Adelaide for New York. We had baffling weather till New Amsterdam Island was sighted, where we took a new point of departure. Three days later, a ter…