Tag: poem
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“Gifts” by Ralph Waldo Emerson killed it.
Gifts, an essay by Ralph Waldo Emerson In this short essay Emerson encourages us to do some “high thinking” about the nature of both gift-giving and gift-receiving. I do not think this general insolvency, which involves in some sort all the population, to be the reason of the difficulty experienced at Christmas and New Year,…
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Don Juan
By Lord Byron CANTO THE FIRST I want a hero: an uncommon want, When every year and month sends forth a new one, Till, after cloying the gazettes with cant, The age discovers he is not the true one; Of such as these I should not care to vaunt, I ‘ll therefore take our ancient…